Maya: Lighting and Rendering with mental ray

MP4 | Video: 540p | Duration: 4:56:31 | English | Subtitles: VTT | 1334.1 MB

Lighting and Rendering with mental ray in Maya with Eric Keller shows how to master practical mental ray techniques for rendering models created in Maya. This course walks through the most efficient and innovative mental ray techniques, including direct versus indirect lighting methods, creating different types of shadows, using the new ShadowMap camera, and reusing shadow and final gathering maps. A chapter on optimizing render times and enhancing render quality is also included. Exercise files are included with the course.

Topics include:

Understanding computer-generated lighting

Creating depth map and ray traced shadows

Softening and shaping shadows

Working with global illumination

Lighting with the caustic settings

Applying physical and portal shaders

Adding depth of field with the Bokeh shader

Splitting a scene into render layers

Comparing render passes and render layers