We're looking for an Unreal artist experienced with pathtracing.

martinraw · Jul 13 2025

Hi, we're working on 'Blood&clay' https://bloodandclay.com/bnc.php and we're looking into transfering the rendering from Arnold to Unreal. If you are an UE pro and skilled in the render features: We want to test UE with this shot( scroll down to 'first shot'). What I want to know first: will it work?

- we have scanned meshes- large polycount, 'dirty' meshes

- high textures resolutions- everything in UDIM layout.

- shaders needs to be converted. Is there already MaterialX in UE.? Then it would be: Converting Arnold to MaterialX-export that to UE.

- groom. We used Yeti and there is plugin for Yeti in UE- does it work out of the box, renders fine?

- icing on the cake would be: Integration into Prism-pipeline. We use Prism2 as our pipeline tool( https://prism-pipeline.com/de/) and it supports UE. But: does a shot assembly works with our assets?

if you like our project and if you are smart, sharp thinking artist, who loves to dive into technical stuff and find nifty soultions: let's talk.

Thank you

Martin

TheFreshest · Jul 14 2025

Hi. I like your project and I'm interested in collaboration if possible. I am not a UE guy so I can't really help with that but I have a lot of experience (20 years) with many rendering techniques and plugins so I was wondering why you want to switch from Arnold? Maybe there is a better alternative than UE. I mainly use 3dsMax and it's plugins. I am also a generalist 3D artist if you need help with anything else. Thank you and good luck.

martinraw · Jul 14 2025

Thank you. The reason why we want to test UE is speed and costs. I believe - without proper testing with an actual shot pure speculation I know- that UE can render a frame much faster(there are a lot of other aspects than speed, sure but let's simplify) than Arnold. I rendered CUs with much hair and SSS and got rendertimes like 40min/frames. No way I can render the movie with my 4 old render nodes with Arnold.
We will be in production for a really long time. No way we could afford licenses for that und unfortunately Autodesk has no interest of software sponsoring.

We did our groom with Yeti. I didn't see this in the beginning, but this narrows down the choice of the render engine quite a lot.

Do you have a website or a showreel?
Thank you.

TheFreshest · Jul 15 2025

Danke for the reply. I am mainly a lighting and rendering guy, I love technical challenges/optimization the most and that is why I am interested in your project. When you mentioned rendering times, my eyes lit up. Anyway, my portfolio has archviz and videogame related 3d since I used to work for a large videogame corp. https://www.artstation.com/f50percent Also if you wish to talk more directly , you can find me on discord as well, under easyduzzit.
I have some ideas that we could discuss if you are interested.
Best day to you!

martinraw · 8:03AM

Good stuff. I'll write you later-

We're looking for an Unreal artist experienced with pathtracing.

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