Introduction to Lookdev for Production

Welcome to my look development course where we will be shading a hardsurface hero asset with VFX production in mind.

This course is aimed at beginners who already know what the respective texture channels contain for data and understand them.

The goal is to make an optimized setup that allows us maximum flexibility with a photoreal output that ensures that the following departments have no problems.

In this course, I use Houdini + Renderman with the LAMA material system. In parallel, I also refer to the equivalent nodes in Arnold in Maya.

I try to explain it in a way that you understand the fundamentals and you can use this workflow in any render engine which is a real requirement in the professional VFX market.

The entire course is just over 100 minutes of fully spoken 4K video material.

The download also includes the required textures.

To support my friend's excellent work who modeled the 3D model used for this course you will have to buy the 3D model on his Gumroad site. The price of the tutorial has been adjusted accordingly.
https://mikhailegorovfx.gumroad.com/l/garua

I wish you a lot of fun shading this model and I am looking forward to your result!