Great lighting is the key to getting professional-looking output from Maya and Mental Ray. Now, for the first time, Pixar Technical Director Jeremy Birn shares his secrets, his settings, and his Maya scenes, in a Maya-specific training DVD. This new DVD features over 3 hours of tightly edited demonstrations of professional lighting and rendering techniques using
Maya and Mental Ray. Continue Reading
Learn how to accurately create and render fluid effects in Maya with over 3 hours of interactive training. Ideal for new and beginning users.
This is a 20+ hours realtime video tutorial covering concept, modeling, texturing, sculpting, materials, lighting, rendering and post , the whole process from start to finish.
Applications used: 3dsmax, zbrush, Photoshop and MentalRay. Continue Reading
Easily learn Maya Toon and achieve the look of traditional 2D cartoons and comic books with over 3.5 hours of project-driven training. Ideal for beginner to intermediate users.
Fluid dynamics are rapidly becoming a powerful alternative to particle effects. In the first lecture of this series, effects animator David Schoneveld introduces you to the rules of fluid production, showing how Maya Fluid Effects can be used for everything from smoke, dust and explosions, to underwater plane crashes and more. David details the fluid menu, emitter and container attributes, as well as shading and texturing, while conveying an understanding of the dynamic attributes of fluid dynamics and their uses in production. The lesson also details the basics of ponds, emphasizing an understanding of the fluid shader and texture controls. Continue Reading
This tutorial demonstrates how to generate a volumetric ground
explosion that is software rendered with cloud particles. Through
the use of emitters, particles, fields, collisions, instancing,
expressions, cloud shading, lighting, rendering and compositing,
the effect is generated from scratch. Continue Reading
CG Academy 3Ds Max Megapack – 30 DVDs
Recorded On: 3Ds Max 9
Language: English
Instructors: Various
Total Time: 127 H
Total Size : 65 GB
Video : TechSmith CC 1280×1024 25.00fps
Audio : PCM 22050Hz mono 352Kbps
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Digital Tutors: Maya Modeling Techniques: Werewolves | 4 CD
Learn Polygon and Sub-D modeling techniques and a production workflow to organic modeling in Maya with over 6 hours of project-based training. Great for intermediate artists.
There is often far more going on in any given frame of a contemporary movie or commercial than meets the eye. In Digital Compositing in Depth, the techniques of both visible and invisible effects are explored and explained.
Obvious visual effects are pervasive in today’s broadcast media; less obvious effects like color correction, image stabilization, object removal, and virtual backgrounds are more common than most observers might guess. Continue Reading
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Description: In this demonstration the instructor dives into the wonderful world of computer graphics by walking the viewer through the many fundamental concepts and techniques necessary to create a successful project. He starts off with an around the world tour of the 3D Studio Max interface stopping at key areas to discuss proper viewport navigation, selecting objects, moving objects around your scene and combining basic shapes to flesh out an idea.
Once the foundation is in place, the instructor takes the viewer through a wide range of techniques for modeling, texturing, lighting, and animating their creations to complete a city scene. The pros and cons of each method are discussed in detail and the viewer is given the context necessary to take the core techniques and apply them successfully to whatever their end goal or respective industry may be. Continue Reading
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