Very happy to see my artwork used for the new Kateboy single ‘Midnight Sun’.

Here is a test I did using the new multiple scattering in volumes available in the latest release of Arnold.

I increased the Volume Ray Depth to 6 and increased the Volume Indirect Samples to 10 to reduce the noise.

Here is a comparison when rendering with and without Volume Indirect:

Another example below, with and without multple scattering. The difference is huge!

If you haven’t done so already, I seriously recommend you check out the work of Oyonale. A true hero of mine and a huge inspiration.

His variations series of images are amazing.

Its incredible how much he has achieved during the 90’s/ early 2000’s and how far ahead of the game he was and I think a lot of his work still holds up today. I don’t know what he is doing today, but I know I would love to see more work from him.

Even more incredible is computer graphics was a hobby for him and his day job doesn’t involve graphics at all!

This blog entry is also great and he also has a great photographic eye.

A true master of his craft.

This is my first test render using the Emily model provided by The Wikihuman Project. The model is based on Actress Emily O’Brien (sorry Emily).

I wanted to test the different SSS types of Anders Langland’s alSurface shader with Arnold. Below you can see the difference when rendering with the SSS modes – Cubic and Directional. I think Directional looks better as it has less of a ‘waxy’ appearance.

And here is a gif which shows more clearly the difference in the SSS types.