Description

This animation is inspired by an autumn scene. The fallen dominoes reveal a fallen leaf on a paved surface.

Design

Project Notes

• I rendered this animation using Arnold. I used a Physical Sky light (through a Skydome light) to light the scene. I added a light blocker to the Skydome light for some soft ambient shadows (most noticeable on the right side of the scene). The light blocker uses a Noise node to filter light.

• I put the rendered frames together in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Textures Used

I used the texture Asphalt 031 for the paved ground surface, which I downloaded for free from ambientCG.

Images Used

I used this image by Stefan Schweihofer for the design I placed on the dominoes, which I downloaded for free from Pixabay.

Websites Consulted

Creating, setting, and assigning a lambert shader in Python:

https://gist.github.com/mfessenden/71e2166c16fbcf7e8cf8

Connecting a displacement map for Arnold:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-9E4B4E8F-F4B7-4005-B3F0-5441E65170CF

and

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL/ENU/?guid=arnold_for_maya_shaders_displacement_html

Using Physical Sky:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL/ENU/?guid=arnold_core_ac_physical_sky_html

Using Light Blocker:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ARNOL/ENU/?guid=arnold_user_guide_ac_light_filters_ac_light_blocker_html

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jO_-mSJnWA

Applying textures to objects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMRzOuZbce8

Changing FPS for an image sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-media-encoder-discussions/image-sequence-to-video-at-24fps-ends-up-too-fast/td-p/12488453