Welcome to the Brazil r/s V2 Field Guide
Artists using Brazil r/s professionally are kicking ass throughout the CG industry. The key to this is developing both an excellent eye and the necessary skills to work with your chosen tools efficiently. The goal of this Field Guide will be to develop Brazil r/s training-style materials so that anyone willing to put in the time and dedication can become an expert Brazil r/s artist.
The approach here will be to develop training materials via this blog; posting overviews, and portions of the "course" outlines, followed by actual lessons. These lessons will probably be interspersed with breakdowns, commentary, and technical discussions that will expand upon the basic ideas being covered. That's the big plan anyway, but this approach may evolve (or devolve) as we move forward.
Brazil V2 is currently integrated with both 3ds Max and McNeel's Rhino 3d. This guide will probably jump back and forth between these different applications, but we will be making an attempt to keep the material meaningful regardless of which application you choose.
The plan is to start from an outline that requires no familiarity with 3ds Max or Rhino at all and move on into more advanced rendering topics. This blog won't provide training in modeling and animation, but it will attempt to focus on the rendering aspects of 3d applications in general.
Disclosure
CaptainVideo! is Scott Kirvan -- CEO, co-founder, and programmer at SplutterFish, LLC. SplutterFish produces the Brazil Rendering System.
More authors are expected to join in this effort and if necessary, more disclosures will be added.
Edits
Since the goal of this blog is to provide an educational resource, and not a news site with stories that reflect some moment in time, posts may be edited/updated/removed at will and at any time.
Comments
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Disclaimer
This is not an official SplutterFish site. This is an experiment in composing, authoring, and assembling future training material in a public and open environment.
