{"id":1087,"date":"2014-08-07T19:41:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T19:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertrand-benoit.com\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2014-08-18T07:03:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:03:06","slug":"griggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bertrand-benoit.com\/blog\/griggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Griggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few days ago, Ronen Bekerman posted some strangely hypnotic images<\/a> by artist Lee Griggs. As Lee explains on his blog<\/a>, these were modeled\u00a0in Maya and rendered in Arnold. Lee used XGen, a technology license by Autodesk from Disney that allows the distribution and manipulation of large numbers of\u00a0geometry primitives on a surface. I was burning to give it a try it. The problem: Autodesk has only implemented XGen in Maya and, as you may know, I’m a Max, not a Maya, guy. Which got me wondering whether a similar effect could be achieved in Max and V-Ray using ItooSoft’s Forest Pack<\/a>, one of my favorite Max plugins.<\/p>\n

The answer is yes, though I suspect the approach to the end result is slightly different. I’m posting these experiments below. Each scene uses one surface and one piece of geometry (cubes, hexagons, spheres, cylinders…) at a time.\u00a0One texture drives the color of the distributed geometry while another (a B&W version of the first with some tweaks) drives scale and rotation. I’ve added some goodies such as V-Ray fog, clouds and water to emphasize the landscapy feel. These were quick renders, with DOF and other effects done in PShop. The lighting was done with a handful of Peter Guthrie skies<\/a>. Thanks to Lee for the inspiration. Make sure to visit his site for more experimental stuff.<\/p>\n

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