Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Materials and Textures 4

A course by John Bashyam , Digital Artist and Director

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About the video: Materials and Textures 4

Overview

“The last thing I will do here is to make some final tweaks to the lighting and the reflections on the water.”

In this video lesson John Bashyam addresses the topic: Materials and Textures 4, 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

“So now this is a good way to test the reflections in the scene is by adding this Chrome ball. You can see it's reflecting donuts. and the donuts are sitting on the ground. And that ground is coming from the projection mapping. what you can do is go in here, Add this. You can see if this ball looks like it's in there and it's reflecting correctly, that means we set things up well. You can see it's reflecting the ground. And that ground is only in there because we projection mapped it to there. So let's just drag this around. And so you can see. The ground plane has the footage on it, and the...”

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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.