Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Materials and Textures 1

A course by John Bashyam , Digital Artist and Director

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About the video: Materials and Textures 1

Overview

“In this lesson, I will show you how to create materials for the 3D objects and assign textures. I will start with the helicopters and the wires.”

In this video lesson John Bashyam addresses the topic: Materials and Textures 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects. Learn the VFX pipeline from start to finish, and create a realistic video with surreal elements by rendering and compositing objects into live action footage.

Partial transcription of the video

“Now that we've done our basic lighting setup, in this lesson we'll talk about creating materials, assigning textures and the secret sauce for realism. Let's begin. All right, so now that we're done sort of setting up our initial lighting We can dive into creating materials for all these objects. And I think the first thing that we'll do is start with the helicopters and the wires because They're easy and it'll be quick and we can just knock it out. First. Let's space bar and go into the perspective view and you can just press F on one of the helicopters. frame it up there. And then. Let's.....”

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Course summary for: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (41)
2521 students
5 units
30 lessons (7h 5m)
7 downloads

Category
3D & Animation
Software
Adobe After Effects, Maya
Areas
3D, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Animation, Audiovisual Post-production, Character Animation, Film, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX, Video Editing

John Bashyam

A course by John Bashyam

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Digital Artist and Director

John Bashyam is a digital artist, director, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in film and animation, he went on to co-found Warm & Fuzzy, an animation, visual effects, and design studio with offices in LA and Colorado.

His studio is on the cutting edge of digital technology, servicing some of the top brands in the world, including Nike, adidas, New Balance, Honda, Budweiser, Reddit, Facebook, NBC, Apple, Disney, and Lululemon, among others. He’s also worked on films like Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant Man, Ghostbusters, The Finest Hours, The Shallows, The Walk, and Unbroken, and as a visual effects artist at Coachella for artists like The Weeknd, Muse, ACDC, Guns N’ Roses, Skrillex, Kaskade, Zedd, Kid Cudi, and many more.