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Collisions with the ground were made using the solver’s floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1596841257280-ZH8X51VC6JIUQ5291WD4/Beans_Single_Shell.jpg Jelly Beans Breakdown The beans were exported as an alembic file, then imported back into a lighting file as a single mesh object. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1596842454270-1MRC6WSIPGYRAQ1MVPY6/Beans_Shader.jpg Jelly Beans Breakdown The jelly bean shading network relied heavily on 3D procedural textures such as volume noise, and for rendering required a texture reference object be created to avoid “swimming” through the animation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1596840067262-YWTAXHFBYY5RX0XY5DVV/Diffuse_Ramp_Combo.jpg Jelly Beans Breakdown Overall jelly bean color distribution and a lot of the beans’ main shading attributes were controlled with ramps. The master Diffuse ramp drove the Color Entry List positions of all the downstream ramps so that I didn’t need to edit each one every time I made a change to color distribution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1597082824536-PQQTOU2M7FMKKH863EO4/Jelly_Beans_Bean_Matte_Demo.gif Jelly Beans Breakdown I was able to use the same Sampler Info node plugged into four ramps with pure RGB colors (the other 9 beans in each case were set to black) to generate a matte for each of the 12 colors of bean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1596918633262-K34Z6YE8VOKXH8AZNYFW/Jelly_Beans_Versions.jpg Jelly Beans Breakdown Lighting and shading went through a lot (A LOT) of iterations. Top left is first pass, to the final at bottom right. http://www.3davy.com/la-salle-de-magritte-breakdown daily 0.75 2026-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1597107214595-VMBCMZZ6AGVNXNAHT40J/La_Salle_de_Magritte_F001.jpg La Salle de Magritte Breakdown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1597092556597-GF0FMAN4CE5ZG7KBG54I/Breakdowns_Foots.jpg La Salle de Magritte Breakdown The “foots” were the most complicated thing to model. I Frankensteined a model of a foot I already had. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1593563830272-DDTH5JRXXKXE5XZI088U/Wireframe.jpg La Salle de Magritte Breakdown Accurately turning the 2D image into a 3D scene was challenging, with the need to achieve camera-plane accuracy to the painting while also maintaining 3D spatial integrity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1597168967831-DAW1SEZYWFI2INM34M9T/Wardrobe_Diff.jpg La Salle de Magritte Breakdown Since the front of the wardrobe is basically planar to the viewing plane, I was able to extract a texture map for the wood with some simple cloning in Photoshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1593716970152-O6SXJXL2X8YNI5ZF7L1R/Breakdowns_Top_Down.jpg La Salle de Magritte Breakdown The shot was created without any cheats for the mirrors, with the exception of a second bar of soap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1593565790417-7H6VQ7MKLJWJQ8I1094C/Me_With_Painting.jpg La Salle de Magritte Breakdown I got to see the original Les Valeurs Personnelles at the Magritte retrospective at San Francisco MOMA, in 2018. http://www.3davy.com/ashtray-breakdown daily 0.75 2026-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1597107333823-68E60L863HN5K0YZR7BU/Jelly_Beans_F200_CU_1080.jpg Ashtray Breakdown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57476b1386db432b4c4c5101/1597342422738-XRENDX58ZYHJV950L8IC/Ashblobs.jpg Ashtray Breakdown Using my MASH “ash maker” I output a bunch of differently shaped lumps of ash. 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