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Using Sun and Sky in mental ray with Maya

This tutorial will teach you to use Maya8.5 new Sun and Sky system wuith Mental Ray.

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Breaking Subsurface Scattering into Render Layers in Maya

Method to break Miss_fast_skin_maya subsurface shader into render layer and compositing them in post.

Rated: with 2774 hits  Added on: Aug 22, 2007

Getting and Instaling GI Joe

In this tutorial I will show you how to easily install and get GI Joe to work properly without frustrating and losing your time..Included GI_Joe script.

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Baking Ambient Occlusion Using Mental Ray in Maya

This tutorial shows you how to quickly render ambient occlusion to texture and assign that texture to the ambient attribute of your shaders. It is very good for a scene that is very static (camera flying trough environment).

Rated: with 3660 hits  Added on: Aug 05, 2007

Lava Shader Effects in Maya

This tutorial explains how to make a shader for lava effects using Maya's material editor, called Hypershade.

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Fast and Easy SSS Fake in Maya

This tutorial explains a fast and easy way to fake sss effects in Maya.

Rated: with 1699 hits  Added on: Jun 23, 2007

Light Tutorial - Part 3

The source of all our natural light is the sun, however it takes on different characteristics at different times of day and in different weather conditions.

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Light Tutorial - Part 2

The direction that we view a light source from has a profound effect on our perception of it, and on how the objects in a scene will appear.

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Light Tutorial - Part 1

Tutorial dealing with how light behaves in different everyday situations.

Rated: with 3132 hits  Added on: May 29, 2007

Ambient Occlusion in Maya8 and Photoshop

This tutorial covers the basics of how to setup and bake ambient occlusion maps in Maya 8 with a focus on game-art.

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Use Maya Transfer Maps Tools to Create Normal Maps

This tutorial served as an introduction on how to generate and apply Normal Maps in Maya 8.5 with "Transfer Maps" tools.

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Realistic lighting with LDRI images

Get Realistic lighting in a scene through LDRI images

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Using Sun and Sky in Mental Ray

With Maya 8.5 Mental Ray got some new fancy options and modes. One of them is Sun and Sky system. I’m going to guide you through some of new features.

Rated: with 2458 hits  Added on: Apr 22, 2007

Rendering In Layers in Maya

Render layers, is one very powerful feature of Maya. And here we show you how to use it properly.

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Displacement Power in Reyes Mode-True Displacement

Examples of True Displacement with Pixar Renderman. But the same principles can be applied to other renders as well.

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Ambient Occlusion Pass Guide

In this tutorial I will try to cover everything you need to know about occlusion pass in 3 simplified parts.

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Final Gathering in Maya MentalRay

Intruduced Maya Final Gathering rendering techniques with Mental Ray

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HDRI Rendering Techniques - Maya

introduced the concept and techniques of rendering with HDRI images in Maya MentalRay environment.

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Dome Based Lighting in Maya 8.0

3DKingdom.org published new tutorial about Dome Based Lighting in Maya 8.0. It's very fast and easy way of rendering in Alias Maya...

Rated: with 4763 hits  Added on: Feb 13, 2007

Baking Ambient Occlusion Using Mental Ray

Ambient occlusion can be very useful for adding details to shadows of your images. But also it can be extremely expensive to calculate for every frame of your animation.

Rated: with 2409 hits  Added on: Feb 09, 2007