Texturing & Lighting with Maya

Lighting for Animation

• Understanding Lighting
• Basic Lighting Work Flow
• Types of Lights
• Light Manipulator
• Using Shadows
• Light Effects

Shading and Texturing for Animation

• Understanding Maya Textures
• The Hypershade
• Building Simple Shading Networks
• Shading the MacGhizmo
• Shading Machismo: The UV Foundation
• Creating Machismo's Texture
• Rendering Basics
• Rendering an Object
• Creating and Animating Cameras
• Setting the Camera and Resolution
• Adding Depth of Field
• Adding Motion Blur
• Using the Render Settings Window
• Rendering with Maya Software
• Hardware Render and Hardware Render Buffer
• Vector Rendering
• Working in the Render View Window
• Layer Rendering, Compositing, and Editing
• Ultimate Rendering Checklist

Advanced Rendering with mental ray

• Introduction to mental ray
• Understanding Render Settings
• Mental ray Custom Shaders
• Mental ray Lights, Shadows, and Fog
• Mental ray Motion Blur
• Indirect illumination
• Image- Based Lighting and HDRI
• Surface Approximation and Displacement Maps

Benefits of the Course:

Ministry Approved Certificate