Siggraph 2016 Rewind - Trevor Kerr: Hollywood VFX on an Indie Budget

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See how Trevor Kerr created his Star Wars fan film Call of the Empire with Cinema 4D and Arnold.

See how Trevor Kerr created his Star Wars fan film Call of the Empire with Cinema 4D and Arnold. Trevor shows a technique he used to develop a procedural camera shake rig using Vibrate Tags and PSR constraints. Next, he shows how he populated an entire forest of polygonal trees by packaging trees as Arnold Scene Source assets and scattering the foliage using X-Particles.

02:49Call of the Empire
06:55Camera Animation
08:08Vibrate Tag
10:10PSR Constraint
10:59Camera Shake Rig
17:12Foliage Scattering
18:39Arnold Tree Materials
23:16Preparing the Arnold Scene Source
26:51Using X-Particles and Arnold Procedurals to Populate a Forest

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