This course demonstrates how to light an object on a live-action still plate, using Maya, Nuke, and Adobe Photoshop. Author Mark Lefitz shows how to capture and use a high dynamic range image (HDRI) as the main light source, as well as how to analyze the plate to determine lighting direction, intensity, reflection, and shadow information. He layers in additional key, fill, and bounce lighting, plus ray-traced shadows, using the mental ray render engine. The course also demonstrates how to render various passes from mental ray to composite the final image in Nuke. The composite is finished off with some motion blur and vignetting in Photoshop.
Topics include:
* Understanding image-based lighting
* Analyzing and color correcting the background plate
* Creating a 3D camera to match the plate
* Lighting with low-quality settings and proxies
* Setting light samples
* Setting up render passes
* Rendering mattes ground shadow, and occlusions passes
* Adding gamma correction in Nuke
* Adding the object to the plate and rendering the final composite
* Retouching the composite using Photoshop
14 comments on “Lynda.com – Photorealistic Lighting with Maya and Nuke”
What a car design huh!
thanks!
by the way, why motion blur the wheels but not the car itself? Isn’t supposed to be moving??
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thanks for the link, but it was a rhetorical question, nothing stops me from doing the things in a different way, no?
It’s a typical Rig Shot… In Photography the camera is mounted to the car, so the only thing that blurs is the landscape and the wheels while the carbody itself remains static.
Right, but the landscape is not blurred…
I guess, for us to see a clear light hits on the background.
Thanks, U.N.Owen!
Can anyone upload this on Cgpeers? would be much appreciated.
Great upload btw! thanks!
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What a car design huh!
thanks!
by the way, why motion blur the wheels but not the car itself? Isn’t supposed to be moving??
Feel free to write your opinion here: http://lynda.com/support/contact.aspx
thanks for the link, but it was a rhetorical question, nothing stops me from doing the things in a different way, no?
It’s a typical Rig Shot… In Photography the camera is mounted to the car, so the only thing that blurs is the landscape and the wheels while the carbody itself remains static.
Right, but the landscape is not blurred…
I guess, for us to see a clear light hits on the background.
Thanks, U.N.Owen!
Can anyone upload this on Cgpeers? would be much appreciated.
Great upload btw! thanks!
Only a dick would question a torrent, just by the .jpg. Stop being a dick, and enjoy the free lessons, brought to us by cgpersia.
kindly, if you want please make Torrent
http://cgpeers.com/torrents?id=21501
Wrong link bro.
Torrent : http://cgpeers.com/torrents?id=21234