Surf’s Up Course at Siggraph

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1. Corey Bolwyn

   5 Aug 2007

   Thanks Rob and Daniel for the excellent presentation on Surf’s Up at the Student Volunteers Meeting. I really enjoyed seeing you guys speak about your effects work. What a great film that was. I’ve seen it twice and can’t wait for the DVD. SPA has it going on. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will put you guys on the map. Oh Yes, I predict it.

2. John Montgomery

   8 Aug 2007

   Thanks for taking the time to spend a little on-camera time with fxguide.com at Siggraph. We’ll be cutting together a short segment for our coverage from Siggraph…and then use more of the interview on our normal fxguidetv.

   It’s really great you guys share things — this concept is one of the reasons Mike, Jeff, and I started fxguide.com.

3. Castelis

   12 Aug 2007

   Thank you for making your Couse Notes online, its very interesting reading, and it really very well made. Francesco.

4. Sebastien Dostie

   13 Aug 2007

   Thanks Rob and Daniel for the killer presentation and especially for sharing all this info openly to the community.

   Let’s hope you just started a new trend for such productions!

5. Carsten Kolve

   15 Aug 2007

   Sweet! This stuff is greatly appreciated… Thanks!

6. casht

   17 Aug 2007

   Those waves blew my mind! Im gonna go make some of my own… shoots ba!

7. himanshu

   18 Aug 2007

   Thanks a lot rob and daniel…….this stuff is really very sweet

8. Michael Watkins

   20 Aug 2007

   Awsome work and the reading material is great. Ive already started converting the concepts used to be used in 3ds max.

9. John Doublestein

   25 Oct 2007

   I was inspired by this course to integrate some of the concepts in our characters at work. The “Sum of 10 Blinks” and “Eyeball Follow” features are now standard parts of all our rigs! If you’d like to see my take on it, check out the tutorial I wrote at http://studentpages.scad.edu/~jdoubl20/JTDsmartBlinks.html Thanks for the great ideas!

10. Rob Bredow

    26 Oct 2007

    Nice work on the eye tutorial John. Thanks for the great feedback.

11. sudhakar

    7 Mar 2008

    thanking u for making animated book.realy very useful to me.

12. brila

    7 Mar 2008

    good…….marvel …. thanking u

13. Ajay

    5 Jun 2008

    Awesome work guys – i ma a Animatior wht is thk nk of Camera?

14. Ajay

    5 Jun 2008

    good job

15. han jiang

    28 Sep 2008

    Ahhhh, It’s the one of the most fascinating lecture notes i’ve ever read. i tried hard wandering on the internet, but i can’t find any clue how do you render the particles on page 102. A friend told me it’s not the highend “Storm” ( or Voxel Bitch) way from digital domain. But what do you mean by

    “Individual particle renders lit by 3 lights – each light rendered to a separate R, G, or B channel “

    how and why should i render these passes , and how do i make the most use of them in comp ?

    Please shed some light on me, Thanks man.

16. Rob

    2 Oct 2008

    We actually rendered every particle in Pixar’s Renderman. It’s not a volume solution, just a lot of individual little spheres (or in this case, actually flat discs oriented at the camera) shaded to look like tiny water droplets.

    We rendered them using a fairly simple shader and used deep shadows to get the lighting detail. By rendering each light as a different color (one red, one green and one blue) we could control the value of the different lights in the composite (by mixing different values of each of the channels.

    Depending on the rendering software that you’re using, this might be a good way to simulate lots of particles, or you might be better off actually using a volume rendering solution like Voxel B (from DD) or Svea (from Sony Imageworks).

    Best of luck to you.

17. Akhlaque

    3 Dec 2009

    Marvelous efforts! & immense resource….. 🙂

    Thanks for sharing.

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