Kitty looking at Window

Rendering Project

For the final project, I decided that I wanted to render an image of a cat looking out a window at a bird and then implemented the features that would help me make that particular image.

Implementation

I used the miro base code and tried to add depth of field, soft shadows, environment mapping, and motion blur. I modeled the scene using Maya.

Rendering

First, I tried implementing soft shadows:

And then depth of field, which also has anti-aliasing with it:

Then I implemented environment mapping, which is used as the background in the final image. After environment mapping, I tried using motion blur, which you can also see in the final image. In order to have a final image in time for the demos, I didn't implement depth of field but I've seen hummingbirds small enough where this could actually all be on the same focal plane. :) So I don't think it affects the quality of the image. I also did motion blur. It's a little weak here because I didn't use enough images to blur it thoroughly but I took the first two images and blended them to make the third.

fin