Painting and MASHing

Well it's been about a month since I posted anything. I've been doing a lot of acrylic painting, which I'll show you soon, I just need to photograph everything and compile it in to a blog post, but I want to finish up a couple pieces I'm doing before I reveal the project. In the meantime, you can watch me paint a squid-angel for my grandma's 90th birthday, if you're so inclined...

 

Anyway, today I opened up Maya 2018 for the first time and realized I had no idea how to really use the Arnold renderer, which is now included instead of Mental Ray, as far as I can tell. Regardless, I wanted to do more MASH stuff, which you might be familiar with if you've read any of my early posts. 

I didn't get anything animated, but do have this still that I thought was nice. It's just a cube of cubes with a random node affecting the cubes towards the top, lit with just a single point light. 

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It'll probably be more interesting once it's animated, but I enjoyed the result I got just messing with Arnold, so I figured I'd show you, whoever you are...