Creating Product Shots in Maya

MP4 | Video: 720p | Duration: 4:06:11 | English | Subtitles: VTT | 1125.3 MB

Creating virtual product shots reduces the need for photography. But those shots need to be accurately shaded, lighted, and rendered to seem realistic. That's when you turn to Maya. Its toolset for materials and lighting is almost limitless. In this course, you'll learn to shade, light, and render a product shot in Maya. Aaron F. Ross is your guide through the entire production workflow, starting with a prebuilt CAD model. Aaron uses mental ray's mia_material_x shader, constructs several different lighting setups, renders to separate passes, and color corrects in Adobe After Effects. Let Maya's power help you present product renderings in their best light.

Want to learn how to create the same effect with 3ds Max? Check out Creating Product Shots in 3ds Max.

Topics include:

Understanding the scene layout, hierarchy, and display layers

Working with mia_material_x

Creating and optimizing mental ray area lights

Generating reflections with self-illuminated white cards

Providing indirect illumination with Final Gathering

Image-based lighting with high dynamic range files

Rendering to a 32-bit file format

Saving material and lighting components to render passes

Adding ambient occlusion

Layering and color correction in After Effects