Ham Licking Time

I found this shot I did on the penultimate BYU student animated film I worked on: Butchered Meats.  The shot is of the big boxer guy (Paddy) taunting the starving protagonist by just licking a ham before tossing it as part of his pregame ego boost.  I had so many issues to overcome on this shot with shadows, hair not being simmed properly, proper looking specular on the ham, penetration, and render layers.  Eventually I got it to workout and am happy with the results.  Someone else compositied this but I lit and rendered this using Maya and Renderman.