Maya Lighting & Rendering: Using Mental Ray Features
Maya Lighting & Rendering 9: Using Mental Ray Features In addition to the raytraced shadow options from the previous lecture, rendering in Mental Ray gives you additional options, including the...
View ArticleMaya Lighting & Rendering: Using Depth Map Shadows
Maya Lighting & Rendering 10: Using Depth Map Shadows Depth Mapped Shadows, from previewing them in real-time in Maya, to optimizing their coverage, viewing the maps from disk, and approaches to...
View ArticleMaya Lighting & Rendering: Fixing Shadow Artifacts
Maya Lighting & Rendering 11: Fixing Shadow Artifacts Those nasty grid patterns or stripes or banding that you sometimes see in depth map shadows are shadow artifacts. A related problem, light...
View ArticleMaya Lighting & Rendering: Looking Deeper into Shadows
Maya Lighting & Rendering 12: Looking Deeper into Shadows How different kinds of shadows appear in reflections and through transparency. Shadows of Maya Fur are a special case, with different...
View ArticleMaya Lighting & Rendering: Point Lights, Directional Lights and Perspective
Maya Lighting & Rendering 13: Point Lights, Directional Lights, and Perspective This video compares spot lights, point lights, and directional lights in terms of types of shadow perspective, shadow...
View ArticleMaya Lighting & Rendering: Using Ambient Lights and Volume Lights
Maya Lighting & Rendering 14: Using Ambient Lights and Volume Lights This video highlights ambient lights, which Jeremy doesn’t like very much, and Volume Lights, a unique type of light in Maya...
View ArticleMaya Lighting & Rendering: Cheats & Tricks
Maya Lighting & Rendering 15: Cheats & Tricks This section details a number of handy techniques you can use in Maya, including creating shadows-only lights that cast shadows without adding...
View ArticleMaya Lighting & Rendering: Lighting the Kitchen Step-by-Step Demo (Part 1 of 3)
Maya Lighting & Rendering 16: Lighting the Kitchen Step-by-Step Demo (Part 1 of 3) This 3-part demo walks you through lighting a complete 3D scene to produce professional-looking results. The first...
View ArticleMaya Lighting & Rendering: Lighting the Kitchen Step-by-Step Demo (Part 2 of 3)
Maya Lighting & Rendering 17: Lighting the Kitchen Step-by-Step Demo (Part 2 of 3) This is part 2 out of 3 videos showing the process of lighting this kitchen scene. Author – Jeremy Birn Maya...
View ArticleMaya Lighting & Rendering: Lighting the Kitchen Step-by-Step Demo (Part 3 of 3)
Maya Lighting & Rendering 18: Lighting the Kitchen Step-by-Step Demo (Part 3 of 3) This is part 3 out of 3 videos showing the process of lighting this kitchen scene. Author – Jeremy Birn Maya...
View ArticleMaking of InFamous Second Son
Making of InFamous Second Son Sony has released Behind The Making Of Sucker Punch’s inFAMOUS: Second Son, giving us another look behind the scenes at the making of the game. Delsin finds that he’s not...
View ArticleHoudini Engine for Unity – Procedural Game Assets in Angry Bots
Houdini Engine for Unity Procedural Game Assets in Angry Bots The Staircase and Curve Decorator assets which are included in the Samples directory are extracted and loaded into the Angry Bots project....
View ArticleMaking of Starfish
Making of Starfish by Tom Hankins at Colorbleed Studios Video demonstrates how Tom Hankins (Colorbleed Studios) goes about creating an Starfish using Maya, Zbrush, V-ray and Fusion. also check: Making...
View ArticleWine glass breaking and fluids with Pulldownit
Wine glass breaking and fluids with Pulldownit by Jordi AlavedraI started this project with the aim of testing how Pulldownit behaves along with Cg fluids, and also as a practice in the use of...
View ArticleMaya Rigging Tips and Tricks
Maya Rigging Tips and Tricks by Daryl ObertThis is rigging video on Maya tips and tricks Daryl Obert presented at AU/CAVE 2013. These are aimed at the beginner to Intermediate Maya user but old pro’s...
View ArticleMaya Dynamics Tips and Tricks
Maya Dynamics Tips and Tricks by Daryl ObertThis is the dynamics Video on Maya tips and tricks Daryl Obert presented at AU/CAVE 2013. These are aimed at the beginner to Intermediate Maya user but old...
View ArticleMaya Camera Animation Tips and Tricks
Maya Camera Animation Tips and Tricks by Daryl ObertWatch video on Maya Camera Animation Tips and Tricks by Daryl Obert presented at AU/CAVE 2013. Daryl Obert covers a ton of useful tips on using...
View ArticleMaya Set Driven Key Tutorial
Maya Set Driven Key Tutorial by Daryl ObertIn this Maya Video, Daryl Obert takes a look at Maya’s set driven key feature and uses it to set up a facial rig. How to use Set Driven Key in Maya, Maya Set...
View ArticleMaya Depth of Field Tutorial
Maya Depth of Field Tutorial by Daryl ObertIn this Maya Video, Daryl Obert takes a look at Maya’s depth of field. You can view the calculated distance of the camera from the object and apply that value...
View ArticleMaya Render Layers Render Passes and Post
Maya Render Layers Render Passes and PostIn this Maya Video, Daryl Obert takes a look at render pass features. Maya’s Render Layers and Render Passes. I also show how to put them all back together in...
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