Price: $2,495.00
Duration: 5 days
Time: 10am - 6pm
(Price and time may vary outside USA)
Dates indicate first day of a multi-day class. Classes usually run over consecutive days.
Duration: 5 days
Time: 10am - 6pm
(Price and time may vary outside USA)
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Dates indicate first day of a multi-day class. Classes usually run over consecutive days.
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Advanced Maya: Lighting, Texturing and Rendering

Required Prerequisites
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










