Maya: Rendering Tutorials and Assets
Subsurfacing Sushi
Procedural Fish and Rice, or Finally, a Use for Maya Wood
Weekly Walkthroughs provide a complete project, including geometry, file textures, shading networks, environment maps, gobos, and lighting rigs. The aim is to teach through deconstruction of a ful...
The Making of 'Trin'
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
Trin was started to create a high-res 4k still image, yet evolved to become a looping ten second animation rendered in vertical HD at 1200x1920 to be displayed on a wall-mounted digital display. St...
Rendering Zbrush Displacement Maps
Using 32 bit Displacement Maps in Mental Ray
This tutorial gives a detailed walkthrough of using ZBrush 3.1 to extract a 32bit floating point displacement map from the Stingerhead ZTool (also available on Gnomonology). Once the maps and geome...
Turntable Animations
Chapter Two: Rendering from the Command Line
The most common way to present a model, to a client, supervisor or on a demo-reel, is to create a turntable animation. This tutorial demonstrates a simple, yet effective, solution for creating dyna...
Lighting a Hallway
Production Techniques for Efficient, Directable Lighting
Emphasizing production concerns, Jeremy lights an interior scene with only 13 lights. He demonstrates in real-time step-by-step how to use a minimal number of spot and point lights to recreate all...
Dusty Simplified Glass
in Overcast Light with Procedural Cork
Weekly Walkthroughs provide a complete project, including geometry, file textures, shading networks, environment maps, gobos, and lighting rigs. The aim is to teach through deconstruction of a ful...
Procedural Plums
in Sunlight with Procedural Water Drops
Weekly Walkthroughs provide a complete project, including geometry, file textures, shading networks, environment maps, gobos, and lighting rigs. The aim is to teach through deconstruction of a ful...
Rendering Zbrush Displacement Maps
Using 16 bit Displacement Maps
This tutorial covers the following: 16 bit Displacement Maps Multi-Displacement 3 Setting Up a Mental Ray Render Using Maya's Approximation Editor Using the Imf_Copy Utility This tutoria...
Styrofoam Helicopter
mental ray Physical Sun/Sky and Rotational Motion Blur
Weekly Walkthroughs provide a complete project, including geometry, file textures, shading networks, background plates, and lighting rigs. The aim is to teach through deconstruction of a fully rea...
55 Chevy Truck: 3D Model & Fully Rendered Maya Scene (Maya 2008 + OBJ)
A Hot-Rod 55 Chevy Truck Rendered with Final Gather and Caustics
This awesome sup'd up 55 Chevy truck model includes all the render settings needed to get a great car render using Mental Ray's Final Gather and Caustics. To fit the mood of the model, it also inc...
