Archive for January, 2010
New Author Page at Amazon.com
I now have an Author’s page at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0033S6KIW
There isn’t anything there quite yet, but now the blog is linked and entries will begin to be mirrored via RSS feed.
Jenni
“Mastering mental ray” now available for pre-sale at Amazon.
You can now pre-order the book, and if you use this link http://tinyurl.com/y94ase4 I will make an extra two dollars. Sweet!
It is actually pretty exciting for me, and signals I am nearing the end of the development of the book. I’m getting things organized right now for the chapter video introductions and rendering a few things for the DVD content.
Jenni
Caustics Animation and Book Update
Caustics example from "Mastering mental ray"
My technical Editor Mark Gerhard asked to have an animation made of one of the caustics demos scenes from Chapter 6, “Global Illumination and Caustics”, shown above. The link to the rotating torus image is http://www.mentalray4design.com/mental_ray/Caustics.mov (11mb).
The book is coming along well, and I’m working on edits from a variety of editors, and hope to be finished quite soon. Chapter 2, “Materials and Maps” got a reworking to reduce content in some areas and increase it in others, adding more focus on the Arch & Design material rather than other optimizations in ProMaterials. I’v also go through second drafts of chapters 6, 8, 9 and 10. I’m now going through some edits for a second draft of Chapter 7, “Importons and Irradiance Particles” and then will be looking at chapter overview videos.
Much thanks goes out to Sebastian Dosch of Dosch Design (www.doschdesign.com) for providing a car model and HDRI environments for the book!
Jenni
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