Arno Villard

After I found the Dustin Brown’s IdBoost Blog (read more about his blog…), I found out that he released this dvd about lighting and rendering in Alias StudioTools.

This is dvd contains 7 commented videos about 1 hour each.
For a good description of the content check at the Gnomon work shop’s website

I learn a lot, especially about the shaders:
The way to use multiple shaders in ‘layer-shader’ to get multiple effects applied to one surface, becoming more used to all the shaders’s parameters, the way to preview the shaders directly in the selector by setting up an environment…Many stuffs that I even don’t know they were existing!

I might also say that I liked the way Dustin is instructing, commenting each of his action. He also don’t get embarrassed to move a light about 8 times: I like this part because it shows the beginners, as I am, that there’s nothing ‘magic’, it’s work!

These video have also another interest: Just watching someone working with Alias StudioTools, his setup, his marking menu, etc…

I wasn’t oriented to learn about renderings in StudioTools, because reading the forums about 3d, I find out that most of the people are using V-ray, Brazil… To keep my focus on learning StudioTools modeling technics, I choose to render in Alias ImageReady (Wich by the way is using V-ray) because of it’s simplicity.
However it’s good to know what are the possibilities of a software that you want to work with.