Cartoon-Style Still Life Modeling with Maya

Overview

“In this lesson we will look at the lighting process tools in Arnold, a render engine built into Maya. I will show you how basic lighting works using a studio HDR and how we can emphasize some features of our models with some extra light. Finally, I will show you how to create an animation Light-Rig quickly and easily. You will see that with little complexity your models will look great.”

In this video lesson Albert Valls Punsich addresses the topic: illumination, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cartoon-Style Still Life Modeling with Maya. Learn the basic techniques to model and build cartoon-style 3D props.

Partial transcription of the video

“ILLUMINATION Once the modeling and still life elements are finished, it's time to move on to enlightenment. It's funny how good lighting can really highlight your models and how bad lighting can dull your work. It is very important that you take your time planning where you will put the lights. In this case I will give you an example with an object from one of my scenarios, for this I will use Arnold Renderer, a graphics engine within Maya. I show you. First of all I will import a "prop" that I have around here, I will drag it inside, which is a "prop" that I have extracted from my "environ...”

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Course summary for: Cartoon-Style Still Life Modeling with Maya

• Level: Intermediate
• 99% positive reviews (110)
• 2914 students
• 4 units
• 24 lessons (5h 0m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  3D & Animation

• Software

  Maya

• Areas

  3D, 3D Design, 3D Modeling