{"id":106,"date":"2008-09-05T20:45:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T02:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=106"},"modified":"2011-07-21T22:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T04:01:52","slug":"would-you-like-some-mental-ray-polly-prissy-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2008\/09\/would-you-like-some-mental-ray-polly-prissy-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Like Some Mental Ray, Polly Prissy Pants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Ray is a powerful rendering application, capable of creating some really impressive images.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Yes, Eric. I would love some tea. Thank you.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/teafinal1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/teafinal1.jpg\" alt=\"Yes, Eric. I would love some tea. Thank you.\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As with most powerful applications, it is quite complicated and definitely not easy to master.\u00c2\u00a0 The image above was testing out some of the strengths of Mental Ray.\u00c2\u00a0 It has several different types of objects &#8211; semi-reflective surfaces, specular highlights, and a liquid.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s even some teabag action going on (get your mind out of the gutter, you pervert).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A little post-processing work was also done in order to fake a depth of field (via Photoshop) .\u00c2\u00a0 As expected, the render times were pretty large with Mental Ray.\u00c2\u00a0 The final image, at 640&#215;480 resolution, took about 25 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Not horrendous but still rather large for a relatively simple scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Ray is a powerful rendering application, capable of creating some really impressive images. As with most powerful applications, it is quite complicated and definitely not easy to master.\u00c2\u00a0 The image above was testing out some of the strengths of Mental Ray.\u00c2\u00a0 It has several different types of objects &#8211; semi-reflective surfaces, specular highlights, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,18],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maya","tag-mental-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}