Tutorials – Visual Effects

This tutorial covers what render passes are and how they can be created with VRay. The use of Render Elements is the same for the Scanline renderer, and Mental Ray renderer….

In this tutorial we take a look at combining our passes in Autodesk’s Composite/Toxik application. This is a great introduction to the operations that are needed for each pat…

I this tutorial we take a quick look at building up passes in after effects using the EXtractoR effect and methods for fixing edges caused by premultiplied alpha. Basically, this i…

In this tutorial we take a look at cleaning up the result of our passes by making sure the alpha transparency is correct as well as a few methods to use for cleaning up edges of CG…

This tutorial covers the preferred method for combining rendering passes from VRay as it avoids issues with motion blur, anti-aliasing, and other “soft” transparency ef…

This tutorial shows how to setup a cool rendering effect that gives objects a softer more painterly look to them. The technique was first present at SIGGRAPH 2009 under the title o…

This tutorial continues with the painterly effect and shows how to apply different materials to take the concept much further adding a greater sense of style. Also, this tutorial s…