how to render heat distortion with arnold for maya

Distorted dragon shadow and reduced its matte intensity to create a soft matted shadow for the overcast day as in the plateġ2.

Integrated the dragon shadow with the footage (keyed out the dragon shadow from the shadows in the plate to avoid doubling shadow and removed highlights on the rocks when the shadow passes over them)ġ1. Adjusted AOVs and advanced AOVs (Utility passes) of the dragon to match the scene lighting i.e more keylight in the beginning to simulate sun shining on the dragon and less keylight and more fill light as the dragon reaches near the castleġ0. Matched the dragon to the plate i.e defocus, blacks and grade matchĩ. Blended the edges of the castle to the mountain using UV projection of an organic edged rotoĨ. Adjusted AOVs and advanced AOVs (Utility passes) of the castle render to blend the castle with the scene lightingħ. Matched the castle render to the plate i.e blacks match, highlights and midtones match, defocus matchĦ. Replaced the sky with a new cloudy sky and matched the grade of the sky (blacks match, midtones, highlights)ĥ. Projected painted out regions on the plate (footage) using 3D projectionĤ. Painted out the road, horse riders and housesģ. In MAYA: Setup lighting for the dragon and rendered out necessary passes & AOVs using Arnold as the render engineĢ. To achieve this shot, I did the following:

How to render heat distortion with arnold for maya