Date of Award
12-2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Legacy Department
Digital Production Arts
Committee Chair/Advisor
Dr. Jerry Tessendorf
Committee Member
Dr. Donald House
Committee Member
Dr. Timothy Davis
Abstract
Peanut Butter Jelly, directed by Alexander Beaty, is a 51 second computer-animated short film produced by Digital Production Arts. The plot focuses on a fight sequence between a pirate jelly fish and a flyboy jelly fish over a peanut butter jar. The production demanded a photo-realistic computer generated underwater environment, which lead to the need for a custom built volume renderer to render high quality god rays. This thesis illustrates the requirement for a customized volume renderer for the production, the algorithm, and the implementation of the renderer. It also describes a tool created for Maya 2012 which gives the artist, artistic control to change the render settings.
Recommended Citation
Ilango, Gowthaman, "Underwater God Rays from a Custom Volume Renderer" (2014). All Theses. 2044.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2044