Pouring Life - Project Breakdown
Breakdown of my winning entry for RenderMan's 'Iconoclasts Challenge'. As this is intended for the purpose of throwing light on some crucial aspects of the project it might be missing few things. Please let me know if you would like me to add anything to this breakdown
Scene AOVs
Progress Renders right from the initial concept
Character AOVs
Supervisor Teapot Shader
Worker Teapots Shader
Mat in the studio HDRI and lighting setup used for the scene. It a basic setup with a Sun(directional light) and an altered HDRI from https://polyhaven.com/hdris
Mat AOVs
Mat frozen metal Lama Shader
Substance Painter material breakdown in viewport
Mat in substance viewport with shadows and SSS enabled. I have added a layer of clear coat to overlay a water/wet specular layer on top
Supervisor Teapot Outfit Sculpt
Teapot Jacket Sculpt
Screen UI
collection of all shaders used for the scene
I used separate ROPs to render out specific sections and then comped them together. This way I was able to have different sample settings for separate sections and optimize render times. I used the rops colored in yellow for the final render
a collection of volume objects in the scene
basic water flip sim setup
Comp setup in Nuke
Initially I was torn between multiple Ideas and they all sounded great but 'Pouring Life' stood out the most. There was plenty of scope for expanding the idea in many directions and it also gave the teapots a definitive purpose
scene references
Robot Mat references
Teapot outfit references