Archive for mental ray
December 18, 2011 at 8:51 pm · Filed under 3d tutorials, compositing, HDRI, lighting, modelling, rendering, shading, vfx tutorials and tagged: 3d, 3d ocean, area lights, cornelia bader, crushing highlight, demo reel, diamonds, diamonds with mental ray maya, dispersion, envato, graphics river, hdri, lighting, maya, maya 2012, mental ray, mia material, mia_material, refractions, shading, tutorial, vfx
How to shade and render diamonds with mental ray (maya 2012)?
As I googeled for an answer, I was surprised by how few tutorials there are on the web who deal with the shading of diamonds, especially when it comes to Maya. So I decided to write this tut on how I made mine:
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December 13, 2011 at 1:51 pm · Filed under 3d tutorials, compositing, HDRI, lighting, rendering, shading, simulations, vfx tutorials and tagged: 3d, after effects, cg ice, freezing, ice, ice crystal tutorial, ice crystals, maya, melting, mental ray, realflow, tutorial, water
This short CG video was done as an ad for a huge company. Since there are not many tutorials on the web which show how to get a good look for ice, …
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