Rendering Separate Elements

[Renderman]

Does anyone know of a good tutorial on rendering separate elements (diffuse, specular,reflections,etc.) and compositing them afterwards. I tried and the rendered image straight out of VIZ 4 looks. much better. Any pointers or sugesstions would be appreciated. Also is there an advantage to compositing or should I not bother.

Thanks,

 

Juan

[STRAT]

i questioned this about 6 months ago.

 

i use cinema 4d which does render to photoshop format utilising each element as a separate layer and i wanted to do this in viz too.

 

as of 6 months ago nobody could help me, but maybe now someone's found a plugin or script to do it.

[plastic]

cebas did a new plugin for max:

 

psd manager

[m.a.antelo]

hi, some of the "masters" here are using Combustion or other compositing tools.

perhaps someone want to talk more in detail about how they use it and the benefits on architectural cg works ?

thanks anyway.

[abicalho]

I used Combustion a LOT for arch animation.

 

Mainly, what I did was add trees, people, render different parts and compose, etc.

 

For that, I used Matte Shadow materials with the people/trees in the scene; used RPF/RLA to composite 3D scenes (adding them overlayed on the animation); used animated masks to re-render pieces of animation that were wrong (mistakenly animated an object that shouldn't - re-rendered only the affected objects); applied Color Correction and many other effects, like those that make your scene look like cartoon, etc.

 

The best way to know if a tool suits for you is learn how to use it. I recommend any compositing tool.

 

BTW, I even used these tools for video editing, although they're not suited for that. It's just that it made my life easier and I didn't need to learn another piece of software.

 

Hope it helps,

 

Alexander