MAKING OF

In this video, the use of Maya's Physical Sun and Sky is demonstrated for the lighting and rendering of a car scene. This is a highly effective way to rather quickly output a professional looking render with minimal to no post production. Mental ray, Final Gather, Caustics and Global Illumination are also briefly discussed.

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part 2 of texturing tutorial
music: Saafi Brothers, Kattoo

Short tutorial describes the basics of projection texturing

Not a tutorial so much as it is me explaining some things about how I understand fluid transparency. It's a confusing thing since there are so many places it can be edited, and it's unclear what effects each slider has on the final render. I try to get into where and why it's confusing but I don't really make it clear since it is confusing... but I make it clear-er.

This is a tutorial I did, actually a while ago. It's a trick that comes into play every now and again. Emitting softbodies with a facing ratio shader, gives a stringy wispy look that can make for some cool fx.