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Creating Realistic Vegetation and Foliage with XGen and RenderMan

XGen's versatility combined with Renderman's new shading and lighting is a match made for high-quality setting design. In this course, you will get to see the process of creating a forest using XGen and Renderman.

Advanced
4h 58m
(7)

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Last Updated Dec 06, 2022

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Creating Realistic Vegetation and Foliage with XGen and RenderMan

XGen's versatility combined with Renderman's new shading and lighting is a match made for high-quality setting design. In this course, you will get to see the process of creating a forest using XGen and Renderman.

Advanced
4h 58m
(7)

Created by

Last Updated Dec 06, 2022

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XGen is one of the most versatile tools available for object instancing and propagation. In this course, Creating Realistic Vegetation and Foliage with XGen and RenderMan, you will get to use XGen for set dressing of a forest inside Maya 2017. Additionally, you are going to render the forest using Renderman 21 and its new shading and lighting system. Finally, you will see how to composite the forest with NukeX using deep compositing. After completing this course, you will be better prepared to create your own CG forests.

Creating Realistic Vegetation and Foliage with XGen and RenderMan
Advanced
4h 58m
(7)
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