For this demo we will utilize Maya's Blinn material, Ramp texture, and Sampler Info utility. We will also use Mental Ray's Dielectric Material and new Mia_ma...
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Global Illumination with Mental Ray
Global Illumination, Final Gather and Caustics, these are the three individual elements that we commonly use as 3D artists to simulate the effects of bounced...
UV Sets in Maya
The purpose of this demo is to provide an educational framework for two common uses of the UV-Centric, UV linking, Relationship Editor.
UV Mapping Techniques and Workflow
This tutorial is designed to show most of the UV mapping techniques and tricks that I use day-in, day-out. This is more of a brief case study rather than a s...
Irradiances Particles in Mental Ray
In this video, from Introduction to Rendering with mental ray in Autodesk Maya 2009, we will continue to become familiar with the new Irradiance Particles fe...
Coca-Cola bottle
This tutorial is intended to show you how to make a Coca-Cola bottle using Maya. Although, you may think making a bottle is trivial, it is easy to overlook s...
VRay for Maya- Demonstration
My name is Dennis and I just got my hands on the VRay For Maya demo! A friend asked if I could explain the basics, so here is a very simple tutorial.
Simple Lava Lamp creation
This tutorial presents a step by step project for the modeling, shading, lighting and rendering of a realistic lava lamp. The steps should be straightforward...
Solar system in Maya
This tutorial will explore using Maya's particle system and instancer to simulate planets with several moons orbiting the Sun. With a few expressions you can...