{"id":892,"date":"2011-08-05T11:40:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=892"},"modified":"2011-08-05T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:42:36","slug":"a-need-to-tighten-my-shading-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2011\/08\/a-need-to-tighten-my-shading-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"A Need To Tighten My Shading Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had some more time to kill with Maya, so I modeled a new object and rendered it with Mental Ray. I even topped it off by rendering with an HDR Image (Final Gather was also used in the final image).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screwdriver.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-893  aligncenter\" title=\"Can you tell it's left handed?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screwdriver-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screwdriver-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screwdriver.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really liked how the handle of the screwdriver came out &#8211; particularly with the Final Gather. It was a basic Dielectric material with a few tweaks here and there. Sadly, the metal portion of the model looks really boring. It&#8217;s no mystery that my node based surfacing skills could use some attention, and this render reminded me of that. If I had more time, my intent would have been to have a brushed metal surface look. I hope to spend more time improving these skills in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some more time to kill with Maya, so I modeled a new object and rendered it with Mental Ray. I even topped it off by rendering with an HDR Image (Final Gather was also used in the final image). I really liked how the handle of the screwdriver came out &#8211; particularly with [&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-892","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\/892","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=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}