Maya: Lighting 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...
Light Linking in Heavy Scenes
How to Quickly Manage Light/Object Connections
Successfull lighting requires the simulation of reflected light. While Global Illumination is a possible approach to automate the process, this can be expensive in terms of render time. The direct ...
Outdoor Lighting
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
This tutorial provides a detailed demonstration of how to approach outdoor lighting for any time of day. We begin by discussing the nature of outdoor light, the sun, the sky, shadows and the use of...
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...
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...
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...
The Making of 'Smile'
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
This 'making of' demonstration and lecture began with the decision to create a new still image and record the entire process. Using Maya, UVlayout, Zbrush and Photoshop, 'Smile' was created in eigh...
Creating Believable Eyes
Multi-Chapter Tutorial
There is no question that eyes are one of the most critical elements of a character. While there are several way to approach the creation of eyes, this lecture presents an intuitive and quick techn...
