Maya: Rendering Interiors

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Maya: Rendering Interiors is an Intermediate level course on 3D + Animation, created by an expert, Adam Crespi. This course is an essential foundation for anyone who needs to excel in his/her 3D + Animation talent. It gives you a strong understanding on 3D + Animation, Architecture, CAD, Photography, Lighting, Video, Materials, Rendering, Textures, Maya, 3D + Animation, Architecture, CAD, Photography, Lighting, Video, Materials, Rendering, Textures and Maya.

Light has more qualities than you think: temperature, brightness, and diffusion, just to name three. When it comes to replicating it in the digital world, you need strong materials and lighting tools, and Maya offers both. Learn how to replicate three unique lighting setups in interior scenes, starting with direct daylight. After you produce the daylight renderings, Adam Crespi shows how to light the scene with interior lights suitable for night or dusk shots, and then use sky portals to create soft indirect light that blooms through the windows. He follows up with rendering specular, mask, and ambient occlusion passes, and then shows how to composite the renderings in both Adobe After Effects and The Foundry Nuke.

Topics include:

• Creating and applying materials with luster and shine
• Creating a mental ray Daylight system
• Casting light from interior fixtures
• Lighting with sky portals
• Creating an ambient occlusion rendering pass
• Fine-tuning Final Gather and lighting
• Compositing in Nuke and After Effects
• Adding depth of field, highlights, and glow

Maya: Rendering Interiors : Video Lessons

• Welcome37s
• What you should know before watching this course56s
• Using the exercise files1m 59s
• Assessing the design possibilities3m 16s
• Changing the rendering engine2m 36s
• Creating basic paint sheens and colors8m 6s
• Adding luster to wood5m 24s
• Polishing metals and metallic finishes7m 4s
• Making glass sparkle and shine8m 15s
• Creating the daylight system and positioning the sun4m 49s
• Softening the sun and shadows3m 16s
• Adjusting the photographic exposure for stylized imagery5m 41s
• Using Global Illumination and Final Gathering to change the lighting4m 58s
• Casting light from interior fixtures8m 1s
• Lighting from pendant fixtures8m 59s
• Creating a low sun with a directional light5m 52s
• Adjusting luminous and lit surfaces9m 29s
• Fine-tuning photographic exposure for dusk6m 4s
• Adding the Physical Sky shader and photographic exposure4m 23s
• Creating sky portals by the direction of light9m 14s
• Testing the luminance and balancing the lighting4m 37s
• Adding interior lighting accents5m 38s
• Creating an ambient-occlusion override material4m 49s
• Creating an ambient-occlusion rendering pass with custom materials7m 37s
• Lighting a custom specular pass for sparkle4m 21s
• Setting up custom masks for compositing flexibility2m 35s
• Fine-tuning the final gather and lighting9m 10s
• Caching the final gather and rendering the image passes6m 35s
• Rendering a depth pass in Maya software4m 55s
• Importing the imagery and arranging the layers2m 27s
• Setting blending modes and adjusting opacity3m 6s
• Fine-tuning color using rendered masks3m 33s
• Adding depth of field2m 49s
• Putting on the final polish with glinting highlights and glow2m 43s
• Rendering the composited images3m 28s
• Rendering the composited animation3m
• Viewing the final rendered animation54s
• Next steps49s

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