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This video demonstrates creating High Dynamic Range Images and using them as lights in Maya. This is the 'budget' HDRI, when you don't have a 5D Mark II and a fisheye lens. This video shows techniques that you can use with a entry level Canon DSLR with a tripod and a chrome sphere. Once the bracketed exposures are taken, we merge them together in Photohop, then take them into Nuke to unwrap them and remove unwanted artifacts. Then we bring it into Maya and set up our renders.

Special care is taken so that we have two different HDRIs, one that is blurred (convolved) for smoother Final Gathering, and a high resolution HDRI for sharp reflections.

We visit with Ryan Montrucchio once more at the Imagination Technologies office in San Francisco to have a look at another demonstration of the new Caustic Visualizer for Maya. We looked at his Honey bee scene which is ~6.5 million polygons, with hair and fur created using Shave and a Haircut. It was running on the first PowerVR ray tracing hardware reference platform, accelerated by OpenRL. Caustic Visualizer for Maya is available at caustic.com/visualizer

Production Company - Lee Films
Director - SEGA
Agency - China
Watch the final result at vimeo.com/40445707
To find out more about us visit miopiafx.com

Production Company - Lee Films (leefilms.com)
Director - Tony Milanes
Agency - Grey Madrid
watch the final result at vimeo.com/53851014
To find out more about us visit miopiafx.com

Official music video for Biting Elbows' 2013 single 'Bad Motherfucker'
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Original Video found here: youtube.com/watch?v=Rgox84KE7iY
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