Lee Griggs walks through all the ways you can generate random colors using Arnold Render.

Arnold’s rendering specialist at Autodesk, Lee Griggs, shows off all the ways you can control color and create random colors using Arnold Render Nodes. The tutorial looks at how to randomize the colors for the sprinkles on a donut.

Most everyone is already familiar with the Arnold Color Jitter node, but Griggs also runs through some other ways that you can generate random colors in Arnold, and some might surprise you.

“This tutorial will use the versatile utility shader to generate random colors for the sprinkles on a donut. We will then use a variety of color shaders to adjust the colors of the sprinkles.”