Maya Lighting / Rendering Tutorials

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1	Creating Natural Light In this tutorial I'll teach you how to make a light rig that will generate a nice, clean, soft overall light that's tinted green.	205
2	Lighting For Maya Software In this tutorial I'll be teaching some basic techniques to light your scene using Maya software (default render-er).	169
3	Quick Final Gather This tutorial will get you up to speed in setting up a simple Final Gather scene.	211
4	Creating A Clean Gray Colored Rendering This tutorial will teach you how to create a rendering using Mental Ray, Final Gather, and an area light	194
5	Creating Caustic effects in Maya In this tutorial we will start up with this build up scene which i have created using Nurbs Revolve Tool and Plannar Tool in Maya.	267
6	MR(mental ray) bacics: Fast rendering panoramic image	217
7	How to creating Realistic Candle Flames in Autodesk Maya In this tutorial we will walk you through the process of creating realistic looking candle flames. Here we will use multiple point lights that will simulate the candle flames. We will also play with shaders to get nice effect.	259
8	Getting started with Mental Ray's Final Gather This tutorial was designed to teach anyone who is interested in rendering with Mental Ray's Final Gather but was either scared to learn or simply didn't think they had the time.	195
9	HDR Lighting in Maya using HDR Shop, and the LightGen Plugin First thing's first, you'll need to download a free copy of HDR Shop from Paul Debevec's HDR Shop page. (Click on Download v1) You'll also need the "LightGen" Plugin found under the Plugins section of his website.	207
10	Using Sun and Sky in mental ray With Maya 8.5 mental ray's got some new fancy options and modes. One of them is the Sun and Sky system. I'm going to guide you through some of new features.	178
11	Light Tutorial - Part 1 There seems to be very little information available in detailed form on what appears to me to be a crucial subject for artists of all kinds: light in all the guises in which we encounter it on a daily basis.	205
12	Light Tutorial - Part 2 The direction that we view a light source from has a profound effect on our perception of it, and on how the objects in a scene will appear.	179
13	Light Tutorial - Part 3 Natural light comes in a wide range of different flavours, and the difference between them can be enormous.	191
14	DISPLACEMET MAPPING	227
15	Volume FX - Advanced Lightning Shader The lightning effect is a versatile volume tool, that can be used to simulate many natural and man made effects.	205