Price: $2,495.00
Duration: 5 days
Time: 10am - 6pm
(Price and time may vary outside USA)
 

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Advanced Maya: Lighting, Texturing and Rendering

Certified Autodesk Maya Authorized Training at FMC

Required Prerequisites

Intro to Maya

Day 1

Topics:

  • Product modelling
  • Photoreal object modelling techniques for commercials assembling your source material aligning image planes in Photoshop

Day 2

Topics:

  • Advanced shading networks
  • Layered texture vs. layered shader
  • Metal: iron, chrome and copper
  • Glass
  • Creating wrapping textures

Day 3

Topics:

  • Environment textures
  • Blending colors
  • Facing ratio
  • Math utilities
  • Render layers review
  • Maya vector render engine

Day 4

Topics:

  • Intro to mental ray shaders
  • Intro to mental ray: ambient occlusion, caustics, global illumination
  • HDRI and final gather

Day 5: Using What You Learned

Topics:

  • Lighting and texturing your object
  • Compositing
  • Putting it all together
  • Tweaking shadows, specular, reflection and lighting passes
  • Creating depth of field
  • Outputting the composite