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Render a turntable video with Maya and Arnold on Deadline Cloud - Deadline Cloud

Render a turntable video with Maya and Arnold on Deadline Cloud

The turntable_with_maya_arnold job bundle takes an OBJ geometry file as input and outputs a turntable render video. A turntable render is a 360-degree rotation of a rendered 3D model that allows inspection of the geometry without a 3D viewer.

This bundle demonstrates how to create utility jobs that are easy to submit from a GUI. The job template defines a pipeline of three steps connected with a dependency chain:

  1. A scene preparation task runs as a single MayaPy task that loads a base Maya scene, imports the input geometry file, and adjusts scene properties.

  2. An image sequence rendering step runs a separate task per frame across many worker hosts.

  3. A video encoding task runs a single FFmpeg task that combines the rendered frames into a video.

The bundle embeds a base Maya scene file with a camera, lighting, and default geometry, and provides job parameters that you can use for either GUI submission or automation scripting. By specifying conda channel and package parameter values, the job runs successfully on a farm created with the Deadline Cloud default onboarding.

You can launch the GUI submitter by creating a desktop shortcut. On Windows, create a file called Submit Turntable to Deadline Cloud.bat with content like the following:

@call C:\DEADLINE_CLI_INSTALLATION\deadline bundle gui-submit C:\DEADLINE_CLOUD_SAMPLES\turntable_with_maya_arnold

If you accept all default settings, the job renders a turntable with placeholder geometry. You can also download an OBJ file such as stanford-bunny.obj and select it for the input geometry parameter.