I'm really glad you started this channel. So dope.

Awesome to see some good examples of the settings tidbits/gotchas when setting up an Arnold shader from from Substance Source/Alchemist. Many thanks and would love to see more Arnold shader development!

Thank you for this extended tutorial! Really appreciate it!

Never too many tutorials about Arnold. I appreciate what you do! Thanks!

This expains just about every question I've had for Arnold!!! Epic video!!

Love the way you always flood your videos with knowledge everyone wants at some point... love the superb content you have!

Thank you so much for this tutorial! All your little explanations to WHY you click or do certain things are super helpful. It's exactly what I've been missing from other tutorials. The way you show how you do everything and your explanations are PERFECT. Thank you!

This is an extremly good tutorial, not just for sculpt presentations, but presentation renders in general. So great (and distinct from other youtube tutorials) to see that you explain the thought behind every tweak and every creative choice you make. Live long man you are great.

Why i like J tutorials its coz all info comes so light! Looks like he knows exact words for explanation. Times fly with his tutorials! Great Job J!!! Cant wait for another one man!

Great tutorial J really helpful. Loving the bubblegum pink look.

Outstanding tutorial!! I'll be sharing this with everyone! Thanks and keep them coming.

Wow, I spend my whole day doing this tutorial but it was completely worth, great results! Thank you very much, my guy

This is definitely helpful.thank you guys.

Best 3D tutorial channel so far. Thank you so much!!

Great stuff!!

BRILLIANT! I am trying to move from Blender to Maya and this helps SOOO MUCH! What a timing man, thank you so much!

great info and big help thank you!

This is a real lifesaver for beginners like me, keep up the awesome work!

Hey J, I barely know anything about zbrush, sculpting and 3D in general (looking forward to start my studies), but it's always awesome hearing you, a pro, talking about it. Great content!

Thanks Jay! I needed this in my life!

This is so much information! Thank you vey much for sharing!

This is AMAZING!!!, thank you soooo much. this is super helpful!

this tutorial is lit. I'm starting 3D and watch how to make some render set ups it's helping me a lot bro. Thanksss!!

Thank you for sharing very much !

This is an excellent video, lots of insight into using Arnold.

Awesome man. Thank you.

Thanks a lot about this tutorial, it is really complete

Thanks a lot for sharing your techniques.

It only took you two videos to be my hero ! It's like, you give all the untold advices nobody ever tells about ! hats off to you sir !

Thanks man! really useful video and a pleasure to watch :)

Dude thank you so much! I really liked this tutorial!

Both you and your vid are spicy !!!! I learned some new crispy stuff and look forward to seeing more in this channel ;)

Awesome!!

Really love your stuff! Don't know why more people haven't seen.

This video tutorial needs a "like a lot" button. Just got glued to tbe screen from start to finish.

Super useful! Thank you, man!

you are the best brooo

Love it man. I use Blender, so I gotta look into the Ahhhhhnold. You're fun to watch. Great tips for popping a subject. Thanks!

Just want to genuinely say thank you !

Thansk brother! Awesome! Really appreciate all your info!

Thank you for this, really needed this, don't know how many times I have to say thank you. :D

AMAZEBALLZ!! XD As you promised Keep it up

I love your vids man!

Police? Yes, this man just changed Maya's layout, he's right here

This is so good

Thank you for making this. 👍

I can’t thank you enough for your video.. Thank you thank you thank you 🙏🙏🙏

Hey man, love this channel !

If you use the ainormal map node you can plug the out color of the normal and go to render directly😁

You can use an aiNormalMap node rather than Maya's default bump2d. That way you can connect the map's color output to the node rather than its alpha output, and you no longer need to invert the green channel. Also, just in case I forget to check the "alpha is luminance" box when connecting a roughness or displacement map, I just take the map's R output instead of the alpha output and connect that to the shader node. Since each color channel is a float, it works the same as using the alpha with "alpha is luminance" on.

when i'm about to shoot i just ctrl shift c to copy cam as pers1, lock it, and then i put the old persp in one of the other viewports, to still be able to move around in perspective in the scene :) Are you still convinced its a good idea to use mesh light? I think its one of the least effective ways to luminate things, introduces much noise and very slow render? i only use it if an actual bulb or neon sign ie. need to be a visible light in the scene. think its better to just use the area lights, just my thoughts anyways, thanks for the video

You are awesome Sir ❤️👌

No one's said it, but I'm gonna and don't mind. J would be an awesome teacher. So inspiring, the way he explains everything. Oh, man. Makes my giggle like a 5 year-old whenever he gives his explanations like in min 23:33. Amazing stuff!

I love your videos! I'm wondering if you could lend me some guidance please? I'm currently conducting a research into what is the best approach to creating realistic humans for a film reconstruction for next year for a 1927 silent film production. Any guide/tips on softwares or artists capable of this to a great effect please?

This hair really suits you :)

Hi. As always, a very good tutorial. I have one question for you. When you use NormalMap from Substance Painter on your model, did you meeting UV creases while rendering? if yes, how do you fix it?

Thank you. I translate it to blender for me but the tips are lit. Just a quick question about your skin pack. Do the brushes have also a picture to use in blender or are they only for zbrush?

Awsome tutorial as always!! By the way, I came across this issue that when I exported my image from Arnold RenderView, the image appeared to be a lot darker in Photoshop. I know it has something to deal with Save Image Option which you might have forgotten to mention on your tutorial. I wonder what kind of setting did you use for your render above. Would you mind to share? I tried to mess around with the setting. The alpha was bad when got the correct color in photoshop, whereas the alpha was perfect but the color was way too dark (raw) in photoshop. Thanks in advance!

Where to find those HDRI studio images from marmoset or substance files from pc? I have both the software installed

Hey dont know if you know this, about normal maps. you are supposed to use the ainormalmap node. connect the color to input and out value to normal camera in the shader. Then you dont need alpha is luminance and channel flip headaches. Beware that the strength sometimes can be very extreme in either direction so it may look like nothings happening at first. Use the AOV called N to see just the normal map do its thing when you render and change values.

hello! I don't understand how you exported the model from zbrush .. did you do a decimation and a merge of all the subtools? or have you retopolized? is the model to scale?

Hey Great video! Could you tell me which version of Maya and Arnold do you use? Thank you ! :D

thanks

Hello bro. thanks for the info. What could be te parameters to activate to render a image 4k?

I tried many times to follow the tutorial when I realized than megascans textures in EXR come in red when opened in PS, Do I have to do any tweaks, or is it just the way PS opens these files from megascans? Great tutorial either way, I'm truly enjoying it!

can i use your same techniques and advices from sculpting to render from most of your videos in blender too ?

great work, where did you get that clay texture though?

Just use an aiNormal node insted of the old 2Dbump node. Then you can just connect the color output straight into the aiNormal. You can also do that with the old 2Dbump node but I prefer to use the aiNormal. No need for the alpha is luminance anymore : )

Been waiting for this, just wish youtube would put this in my notifications not just my feed :/ Btw, J, what do you think about Arnold GPU over CPU rendering? I've been getting more into 3d modelling and rendering, got myself an RTX 3090 ( for games and work of course) but my limited knowledge doesnt quite know the quirks about it, mostly all I know is GPU renders are hella fast and Arnold GPU can only use OPTIX denoise as an IPR beauty pass. If you have any insight on this let me know Im very curious!

Normal Map connection always confused me. Thank you Now i understand it. I have seen people using roughness control maps to control different rougness region of the face. do you know how to do that ?

Is there any difference between IPR and Preview render?

I've noticed that you don't uncheck the "normalize" options in the lights. I've been told by many that unchecking it makes the lighting results more physically accurate. Which one of the two is it? Thanks, and keep up the good work!

Can you share the 3D model that you are using ...Please

where did you find the info about substance revert at 28min please ?

It would be really great if Arnold triplanar node could be instanced so you can control its attributes at once? or even better, WHY the hell don't we get a triplanar SHADER node so we just take the shader and be able to apply it in a triplanar way?

i am learning modeling with 3ds MAX . is there any reason beside XGEN people use Maya over MAX?? could these processes be done in 3ds MAX??

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What do you mean by arnold is physical render ??

Could you please show us how to export normal map and displacement from Zbrush 2020 ? Nice Channel

Can we get this file please?

Hi, i’ve seen many chinese artist using arnold for rendering, Arnold looks so good with anime style models. when you try marmoset with real style models looks good, but anime models no so good as arnold… do you know why? The skin in arnold for anime models looks so nice but I dont know why

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh MODEL?!!?!

The second he said " I don't know I'm not a doctor " I had to leave........ just wow

Render Oven 2.0

"out alpha of the normal map goes to bump" - whyy!?? Щ_Щ that's why I failed up trying to understand Arnold by glance at ones! was totally confused, it's not intuitive at all(((

You must have deep pockets, Arnold is pricey! I will stick with Iray

Can I bring 63 total million polygon model to maya

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Eminem?

Is it Scarlett Johansson?

That was not a poopy sculpt!