The Portfolio of Sam Hodge

Most of the work that I have done as a shading TD is maintaining a monolithic "Uber" shader at RSP. Using this single shader which was inherited from a previous show, it is able to support a number of BRDFs controlled with a wide variety of painted textures. As well as the uber shader, I have been able to quickly react to urgent requests from composting and lighting artists. The primary tool has been a texteditor and a comprehensive BRDF library. I feel very comfortable with all aspects of the Renderman Shading Language. This knowledge transfers well into Mental Ray, but I have has less expereience with Mental ray

• surface shaders
• light shaders
• volume shaders
• texture bakes
• brickmap and point cloud bakes
• displacement shaders