Adrien Lambert

Houdini Solaris / Renderman : Cookies and Milk 🍪🥛

Bonjour y'all, I’m diving here into Pixar’s RenderMan with a fresh take on Harsh Agrawal’s "Cookies & Milk" tutorial, but this time with a Solaris gravy! 🥛🍪 I’m experimenting with RenderMan 26 XPU on Houdini 20.5 (fingers crossed for H21 soon) to bring you some practical lookdev tips in Solaris. I’m skipping the modeling and assembly details since the awesome project files are already available through the original tutorial, check them out here: https://renderman.pixar.com/cookies-and-milk For those who want the full details on my process, from start to finish, I’ve got an in-depth version on Gumroad for my patrons: adrienlambert.gumroad.com/l/ztwuaj (note: it’s view-only, no downloads). Hope this sparks some ideas for your own renders, let me know how it goes! 🚀 Also don't miss checking out Harsh Agrawal art here : https://www.harshagrawalart.com/ 00:00 - Intro 01:17 - Scene Presentation 02:37 - Setting up the scene 08:43 - Renderman materials 10:05 - Cookie material part1 12:42 - Scene management trick 15:05 - Cookie material part2 16:00 - Textures and TEX conversion 17:57 - Cookie material part3 23:30 - Bottle material 29:30 - Metalic tray material 31:12 - Milk material 33:30 - Lighting and light filter 40:23 - Adaptive sampling render guide 54:00 - Denoise tips with copnet