Painterly Renders?

[gpedder]

I would like to be able to easily break up the typically CG edges on everything for a more painted and natural looking render.
Maya gurus, is there any way to get this done? I have tried post tools like Video Gogh and Discreet Sparks but they boil on sequential use. I have tried displacement maps but my machine dies at the thought of rendering so many. I have tried liberal use of paint effects, lying flat on surfaces but with the same processor killing results...

Help me before I curl up and die in front of my screen.....

[ggray7]

Most likely the effect you want is ging to have to be done by shaders if it's going to be done in maya using the standsard render. Can you provide some link or image to better illustrate the look of the effect you are goin for? This may give more responses.

~Garret Gray

[hirni]

There is a non photorealistic renderer out there:
http://www.algorithmic.com/eva\_e.html
, it is still beta but looks awesome.

Another way to do painterly rendering is to go to
renderman or BMRT and write you own shader like
here (with Imager-shader):

http://www.edit.ne.jp/~katsu/img\_index.htm

Some other nice painterly shaders are described
in "Advanced Renderman" by Apodaca and Gritz.