A tutorial (MtoA) that covers how to render a polymesh as a volume can be found here.
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5-Packs & Arnold for Education
Arnold Packs, starting with the Arnold 5-Pack for $1500 are now available. This is 5 Arnold annual subscriptions at 50% off of the standard single subscription price.
Arnold is also now FREE for Educational Institutions. Schools can request Arnold licenses directly through the Autodesk Education Portal.
Survival Shader Pack
An Arnold Material Library with over one hundred materials is available for Maya here.
Arnold Answers
Arnold Answers is a reputation-based forum where Arnold users of all kinds can ask their colleagues and peers questions related to Arnold.
It can also be found under Community, on SolidAngle.com.
Interior by Yanis Lachat (MAXtoA)
3D artist Yanis Lachat shares his architectural design workflow from 3ds Max to Arnold.
Hyperspace Madness Assets (Arnold 5)
The latest Maya 2018/Arnold 5.0 assets for the Autodesk internal production Hyperspace Madness have now been made available.
More Arnold renders can be found here.
What’s new in Arnold 5
Toon Shading with the Facing Ratio shader
A simple tutorial that demonstrates how to create a toon shading effect using the Facing Ratio shader can be found here.
OATS STUDIOS Assets
OATS STUDIOS have made the assets from their fantastic short films available to purchase on STEAM.
Here are some renders using Arnold.
JSplacement
JSplacement is a rather cool pseudo-random 8k displacement map generator made with JavaScript. It generates grayscale height maps that can be used for displacement. Below are some tests using Arnold.
The image below required a higher than normal number of Subdiv Iterations (9) to capture the fine detail from the generated displacement map.
