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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.

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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.

Rated: with 3301 hits  Added on: Jun 01, 2007

Light Tutorial - Part 1

Tutorial dealing with how light behaves in different everyday situations.

Rated: with 3726 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.

Rated: with 8211 hits  Added on: Apr 26, 2007

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

Rated: with 6713 hits  Added on: Apr 23, 2007

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 2997 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

Rated: with 3660 hits  Added on: Mar 10, 2007

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 5881 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.

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Using particle Speed

There are situations where a phenomenon's velocity or speed is related to it's behavior or appearance. Perhaps the incandecence increases as a particle moves faster... or the color changes from blue to red. Perhaps some dust is resting on an object, but once it gets blown away it also begins to dissipate and fade. These effects can be achieved by understanding how to reference particle speed, which is not a default particle attribute.

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Faking Global Illumination

This handout will explain how to use point lights to light a scene and give it the same look as using global illumination

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3-Point Lighting in 3D

Learn how to make a classic 3-point light setup. I will use Cinema4D but any major 3D software package will do

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HDRI from scratch

Make HDRI images from scratch, without the aid of a camera. Photoshop CS2 is needed

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Interior Lighting

This tutorial will introduce you to techniques for lighting interior spaces in Maya. For this excercise you will primarily be learning how to manipulate area lights.

Rated: with 22997 hits  Added on: May 26, 2006