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.
There is an interview about me and my work with XGen and Arnold in this month’s issue of Digital Production magazine. 
After admiring Maya 2016’s new cleaner look recently, I realised there is a lot of wasted space at the top of the attribute editor. I was thinking it could do with a rethink/ redesign considering its pretty much been like this since version 1. Any thoughts? Am I completely insane?
The proposed layout below. Shift the buttons to the top menu making space for preview icon on the left.
For the concept images of its new production ‘Until the Lions’, Akram Khan Company used make-up effects inspired by one of my 3D images rendered with Arnold.
I wanted to tint the color of the paper covering of some wax crayons. So, how to do this without having multiple colored paper textures for each wax crayon? The alLayerColor shader from the very cool alshaders by Anders Langland in combination with the Ai Utility shader is perfect for this kind of thing.
By setting the Color Mode of the Ai Utility to ‘Object’ each of the crayons will be randomly tinted because Object mode uses the name of the shapes to compute the color. Ensure that the ‘Shade Mode’ is set to flat as we don’t want any shading effect from the Ai Utility shader as the alSurface shader is being used for the wax and paper.
The Ai Utility and the grey paper.jpg texture are combined using the alLayerColor shader:
The same Ai Utility shader is also used to alter the Diffuse Color and SSS of the wax alSurface shader.
I have recently been having lots of fun playing with some deformation tools in Maya to distort some 3D scans from Ten24.info to produce these images.
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I will be doing a workshop about my work with XGen and Arnold at FMX this year.
http://www.fmx.de/program2015/event/6015
Very pleased to see my artwork used by the group Kateboy for their new single Higher.
The image they used is from my series of portrait modeling experiments modeled with Maya and rendered with Arnold (of course).
Autodesk have done a feature video on my work with XGen and Arnold for Maya.
Many thanks to Judy Bayne – Learning Content Strategist at Autodesk.
arnold-rendering.com 
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