Autodesk-Advanced Maya: Lighting, Texturing and Rendering November 27, 2011

http://www.fmctraining.com/fmc.asp?l=Washington+DC&p2=Upcoming+Classes

Contact:202-429-9700 / [email protected]

(5 day class)
2011: 11/28-12/2, 12/27-31
2012: 1/30-2/3, 4/2-6, 7/16-20

Day 1

Topics:

* Product modelling
* Photoreal object modelling techniques for commercials assembling your source material aligning image planes in Photoshop

Day 2

Topics:

* Advanced shading networks
* Layered texture vs. layered shader
* Metal: iron, chrome and copper
* Glass
* Creating wrapping textures

Day 3

Topics:

* Environment textures
* Blending colors
* Facing ratio
* Math utilities
* Render layers review
* Maya vector render engine

Day 4

Topics:

* Intro to mental ray shaders
* Intro to mental ray: ambient occlusion, caustics, global illumination
* HDRI and final gather

Day 5: Using What You Learned

Topics:

* Lighting and texturing your object
* Compositing
* Putting it all together
* Tweaking shadows, specular, reflection and lighting passes
* Creating depth of field
* Outputting the composite