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Toon Explosion FX in Maya/Arnold?

Hello,I've been asking around and experimenting for some time but I've yet to get any satisfactory answers or results. I'm trying to replicate the toon explosions, gunfire, and bullet impacts seen in…
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Eric Chadwick

Transparency issue when converting from EXR to PNG - Arnold Maya

Hello,I've run into an issue when after rendering an image in Arnold Maya.I've included images to illustrate the issue. In this scenario I'm working on a car windshield.When I save an image with a tr…
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pjscottartist

Replicating Team Fortress 2 Shader in Maya/ Arnold?

I'm currently working on a short animated project and I'm trying to go for the TF2 illustrative rendering style. I've looked at the white paper that was published but I'm finding it difficult to unde…
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Klunk

Historical architectural street scene

I've been working from old architectural plans I found on and am happy so far - all I can see is the errors I still need to fix but am liking the vibe so far (all modelled by me except the grass/plan…
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hipoly27

Architectural Modelling tests

Sorry - Posted this in the wrong forum (reposted in digital art forum now) - can't delete the topic :)
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hipoly27

Does the aiImage node in maya use the luminance as alpha by default?

It's in the title. Some textures with the maya image node would need to be RAW color space and alpha as luminance, Some do not need this. The aiImage node that I'd really like to start using doesn't …
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nomzod

Textures showing up black in maya (viewport and render)

[{"insert":"For reference, I exported textures from SP using the Arnold (standard surface) preset, then used the Substance to Maya plugin to import them to maya. The pants and teeth of my character a…
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Alex_J

Any idea what could cause this with 3DCoat+Maya?

[{"insert":"I made the Mug in 3DCoat and used it's Shader\/Materials to texture everything.\nI exported the object and textures, imported them into maya and all metal-like textures are way too dark. …
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garciiia

16-Bit Sequence

[{"insert":"A montage of my various low-poly still images and animation I have created in the last few years, Cheers!\n"},{"insert":{"embed-external":{"data":{"height":113,"width":200,"photoUrl":"htt…
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pixelboy77

Wicca

[{"insert":"Hi!\nI would love that you guys make a feedback of this old lady that i have been working on!!!\nThanks for advance!\nI have modeled, textured and rigged (and rendered) this witch. What d…
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croklin

Render Alpha of reflection....

[{"insert":"so i want to render an object and in front there is mirror. what i want is that alpha of that object on the reflected surface..eg suppose there is window and in side of that there is mirr…
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Eric Chadwick

Maya/arnold, Normal issues on the edge of the mesh.

[{"insert":"Hey Im encountering a problem with the normals on the edge of my mesh and I cant seem to figure out how to fix it. It renders fine using Iray in substance painter and blender cycles, but …
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cushing001

Arnorld render in Maya is black - urgent!

[{"insert":"Hi everyone, I have this problem: I recently installed the last Maya version, it seemed to be working fine but when I wanted to render my project Arnold render was black. I was a Maya use…
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oglu

Baked high to low normal map has seams in Arnold CPU render on all hard edges.

[{"insert":"Hi, I'd like to render my baked normal map in Arnold CPU, does anyone know how to get rid of all these seams? Scene file here if you want to take a look "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/…
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malcolm

Orc Bust Concept

Orc Concept started for fun. Maybe I will use it for a full character in the future. Hope you like it!
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RAME

Question about Arnold PNG export

I have a question, hopefully someone can help me, how I can export as PNG a final render using Arnold without seeing the ground and the shadow can be used under any surface, with white surface it see…
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gnoop

Arnold Rendering Problem - Anyone knows why? :(

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Nerono

MtoA Warning: [gpu] device 1 is out of range and other Errors

I'm on Maya 2022.1, and the MtoA Arnold Integration.I was working in the hypershade window and toggling between Arnold and the other rendering engines, and I got an error:// Warning: [gpu] device 1 i…
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cultmethd

Maya Arnold - SkyDome HDRI not lighting my scene the way it whould

Heyo !I'm trying to recreate a photo I took recently in Arnold but I can't seem to figure out how to set it all up correctly. Here's what I'm aiming for :And here's what I got : I'm pretty happy…
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cmdrDsig

Same camera position in Maya and in UE4/5

Hey !I'm currently trying to recreate a shot that I took irl, my goal is to compare the Arnorld renderer to Unreal Engine.To do that I need the two final renders to be axactly the same when in comes …
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cmdrDsig

Yarmot - The Demon Lord

My last personal project! Hope you enjoy it!
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RAME

[FINISHED] "Undead Mage" - Full Body

Check the project here for more: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Aqm5aV
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Worldevour

Making of Cauldron | Mini Tutorial

I made a short tutorial going over the entire process. It's more of a general overview. Feel free to ask any questions. Hope you enjoy!https://youtu.be/P5vxEeH7XUM
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afaziill

Cauldron

I recently did a 30 day challenge where I sculpted something for an hour a day based on a concept or photo. Decided to take one to a finish. I have most of the process recorded so planning to share t…
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afaziill

(Arnold) How to Create Shadow layer for transparent shadows

I am currently trying to render a separate shadow pass to use while compositing. I have a colored glass with a transparent colored shadow, however, when I try to use aishadowmatte to isolate those sh…
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oglu

Maya + Arnold + Displacement (from ZBrush)

hey folks right now I try to render a simple sphere in Arnold with a displacement map, it kinda works, it looks like that:zbrush:Maya:Maya closeup (this is where the error is visible):it looks very …
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goekbenjamin

3ds Max Arnold maps workflow

I'm really confused with the best workflow for my project. I'm using 3ds Max with Arnold Renderer. The scene has 20 or so objects, all are UV'd, some I need to be multiple materials others only one.…
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sprunghunt

Maya-arnold pixeled render with normal

Hello!Im new on Maya and im trying to render with arnold. As i see in a tutorial i assigned Aiimage/AiNormalMap/AistandardSurface in my model.When i use Ainormalmap in arnold render view i see p…
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JSpower

[Arnold - Maya] How to set "aistandard" material as a custom AOV?

I created an aistandard and dragged and dropped it on the "Shader" input of the custom AOV but I get just a gray screen.
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oglu

[ARNOLD - MAYA] Exported image with transparency problem

I render my images with nothing in the background so I can put whatever I want afterwards in photoshop. I use depth of field so my model gets blurred. This blue background in the arnold renderview is…
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gnoop

3D Model

#W.I.P
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SUTHONG

[Arnold - Maya] Is there a way to change the image format of the snapshots?

I use the snapshot folder and my images are stored in .exr format but I would rather them to be .png or something similar. I can store them manually with save as, but that would be tedious. And the w…
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Worldevour

What software can I use for a (very) short film ?

Hello,I have an assignement to do a short 'movie' (less than a 30 secs, including 2d title screen) for my class. I was wondering what software was used for this type of work, as I've mostly done stil…
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efwfew16

(Arnold)ID on a group of objects

so i have a scene in maya and have grouped certain items accordingly now i want to isolate them using ID map but when i am applying id aov it is giving me id of different objects which i dont want i …
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roshankarel

Beginning 3 d artist - modeler ( Maya + substance painter) Trying to start

Hi , i am looking for any work you can give with 3 di have experience with interior visualization , now i am making 3 d low and high poly models ,texturing them in Substance Painter ,worked with desi…
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just3415

Head test WIP

Greetings allI would like to ask you all opinion or feedbacks on this piece. This head is supposed to be part of my bigger personal project but I have decided to put some more time on the head model …
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constantinuslupus90

Abandoned Torture Room Set Design, looking for feedback

Background story for the set,An illegal video streaming business on torturing people under a tin factory basement in Russia. However the business was exposed. The crime scene has been abandoned since…
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Shuenny

Some re-renders from old projects:

What do you think?
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PedroCorreiaArtwork

Maya / Arnold - Displacement on one object disappears if obscured by transmissive object

Hello!I am working on a character with glasses. Lately i made the spectacles and a simple glass material for them. Its not terrible, not great. The problem is that skin displacement seems to disappea…
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IgorP

My Artwork

This is my artwork:https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zOzPRZif you want cooperate, looking for 3D Artist into team(for regular salary) or need my character into your project(80$), just let me know to…
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Lukke88xx

Zbrush displacement map to maya arnold doesn't look the same

Hello :) so here is my issue, I exported a displacement map from zbrush following this tutorial https://www.cggallery.com/tutorials/displacement/?hc_location=ufi, and then I plugged it into my a…
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zuka_banana

[WIP] 3d Sniper with white matcap

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AhmedWaleed

Coiffure, Maya plug-in for real-time hair

Hello Polycount,I'm Florian Croquet, some of view might have already seen my previous tool called "Couture"  than I released 2 years ago.I'm back today with a new tool called Coiffure and it's…
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Psichari3D

Arnold Render Region Question

Is there a setting (for Arnold Renderer) which allows you to Render Region while still keeping the resolution of the full render, in other words to make it so that Maya doesn’t crop the render to the…
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rippyJDH

Maya/Arnold Texture fidelity

So the scene I have currently has a Plane which is 6400 Polys, AiSkyDome and an area light. The texture from Bridge is the Icelandic Rock Cliff and  has all files in 8k and EXR format. I Underst…
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David_McCabe

Maya Arnold procedural dirt from ground

Hi,so i have a car model that is made of many objects and is procedurally textured. what i want to do is add a dirt layer coming from the bottom up as in the real world across all the various objects…
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throttlekitty

Eternal Guardian

Finally dug up an old project I made back in august, but couldn't get my hands on untill now. It's unfortunate that now I clearly see that the sculpt itself is pretty weak but I didn't want the …
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yapasddfgg

Maya Textures not rendering in Arnold viewer

Heya all It seems my textures show just fine in the view port but when going to render show up completely like the normal's are reversed and not showing anything? I found people with similer issues b…
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GarethStandfield

Where do I plug the secondary specular map on Arnold for Maya

Hello, I'm following a tutorial in which he uses Arnold in Softimage and plugs the secondary specular map he created in "Secondary Reflection" input. (Image below)Where do i plug this map i…
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Worldevour

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