Autodesk Arnold Render (36 Tutorials)
FumeFX Thanos Portal for 3ds Max
June 11, 2019
The Avengers tutorials are so popular and fun. This tutorial for the Thanos Portal comes from SitniSati, and is, of course, inspired by the Avengers Infinity War. This portal appears when Thanos arrives in Wakanda and displays dark tendrils with small lightings that illuminate it. They demonstrate how to use the FumeFX Effectors to control…
In Depth: 3D Renderers (Updated 7 June 2019) #3drenderer #redshift
June 7, 2019
There are so many renderers available out there, and how does an artist know what to choose? Although they really do the same thing, they work differently and have different results. Here is a breakdown of what the different renderers offer, not reviews, so you can decide which renderer is right for you.
In Depth: Render Farms / Network Rendering / Distributed Rendering
May 10, 2019
The idea of network rendering is to distribute your render over a network, or farm, of computers, to speed up your render times.
Maya Monday: Autodesk 2019 M&E Showreel
April 15, 2019
This week, we’re showing the most recent Autodesk 2019 M&E Showreel, instead of the usual tutorial or Maya feature walkthrough.
Maya Monday: The Arnold GPU Public Beta with Arvid Schneider, Greyscalegorilla
March 25, 2019
The Arnold GPU public beta last week, with the release of Arnold v5.3. Arnold GPU gives artists the ability to switch between CPU and GPU rendering easily.
Cinema 4D & Arnold: Making a Spiderverse-Inspired Shader in Arnold
February 5, 2019
Chad Ashley from Greyscalegorilla was recently inspired by the animated movie, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse” to create an Arnold shader in the same style. In this tutorial, Chad explains the technique use to create the film and then shows you how to re-create that look in Arnold.
Cinema 4D and Arnold
September 11, 2018
A couple of weeks ago we did some features on Cinema 4D and third party renderers that work with Cinema 4D. We’re continuing today with Arnold and featuring a few useful and fun tutorials.
Maxon Cinema 4D and Arnold Render Tutorials for Shaders
September 11, 2018
A couple of weeks ago we did some features on Cinema 4D and third party renderers that work with Cinema 4D. We continue today with more for Arnold.
WiFi Signal from MASH
May 16, 2018
Here's another from Lee at Maya Short Rounds. The second tutorial on the page was featured on Maya Monday.
Maya 2017 MASH Tutorial – Scatter balloons and vertex color in Arnold
May 16, 2018
Edge-CGI 3D Tutorials and more! shows you how to scatter colors around a huge group of balloons. You can recreate Up!
5 Tutorials about Creating Glass in Maya with Arnold’s aiStandardSurface
March 26, 2018
There have been multiple times in my career when I’ve been asked to create glass, whether it be for a product video, or for motion graphics with a logo in glass, or for visual effects where I’m turning a person into glass. The important thing is to make the reflections look natural.
How Physically Based Rendering Shaders Work
March 26, 2018
There are several tutorials here. In the first, Meghdad Asadi breaking down how Physically Based Rendering shaders (PBR) work in a render engine. The second is an excerpt from the Maya 2018 Essential Training from Linkedin Learning. In the third, Arvid Schneider talks about setting up shaders in Arnold.
Working with Arnold AOV’s in After Effects
March 26, 2018
Maghdad Asadi has a new overview video on working with passes (AOVs) from Arnold in After Effects.
Rendering in Maya
March 26, 2018
This page contains several tutorials about installing Arnold Render, render settings you should use, saving the render and things like ray depth, viewport settings, and anti-aliasing.
C4D: Speed up your HDRI Workflow in Octane with HDRI Link
January 19, 2018
Chad Ashley from Greyscalegorilla explains how to work faster using HDRI Link with Cinema 4D and Octane.