Renderman Vase

For this project I was given photos of a vase. The vase had a layer of metal oxide within the glass, this created a unique effect where the vase would appear to change color as you viewed it from different angles. My goal was to recreate this effect on a computer generated 3d vase using a custom Renderman shader. I also wanted to achieve this result without using a raytracer.

A full technical breakdown of the project can be found here.
http://www.sfdm.scad.edu/faculty/malcolm/vsfx419/wip/fall06/steven_olmsted/va...

Here is the vase shader in Renderman Shading Language
http://www.sfdm.scad.edu/faculty/malcolm/vsfx419/wip/fall06/steven_olmsted/va...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Vase
• Pixar
• Renderman
• 3D
• computer
• generated
• graphics
• model
• sidefx
• houdini
• shading
• language
• shader
• HDR
• texture
• bombing

[homidog11]

awesome!

[rubent100]

would love to see you code this shader in RSL. its all scipted, he didnt go moving little sliders like you would.

[TonyRileyFX]

What 3D software did you use for the wireframe?

[iceSkar]

@rubent100 some of the best cg artists "move sliders" ,i guess they are lesser artists right?

[snarkyscuffary]

I feel like I can reach out and grab it! That's so epic, man!

[gbear1984]

It seems like almost everything renderman on youtube is related to malcoms class

[WolftonesProductions]

wow that amazing

[ericpungart]

holy coding batman. Very nice.

[c0ddlefl0p]

Have you guys seen the price for this programme?

[seetherlee]

I don't really see anything that spectacular.

[madogmgd]

4,000 views?

this video needs 2 extra ZE-ROWS.. ca.. am i right?