Hey everyone,
Sorry for the delay. This week’s video tutorial is part 2 from last week where we talked about the matte/shadow material type in the scanline renderer. This week, we’re looking at how you can use matte/shadow materials in the mental ray renderer and we’ll use a quick-and-dirty camera matching technique along with it.
Hey everyone,
I know I’ve already covered this a little bit in a previous video tutorial, but I wanted to give it a little more air time for comprehensive coverage. This week I’m showing you how to use the Matte/Shadow material in the scanline renderer for product shots. We’ll be keeping things simple, and I’ll show you a trick for getting sweet semi-transparent reflections.
Hey all!
There are no excuses for this exceptionally tardy post. I fixed my computer problem back on Monday (turns out I’ve got two bad sticks of RAM). Then I contracted a nasty virus the same day, so I’ve had two delirious days where I could’ve posted the video. I’ll try to make it up to you on the next one. I’m thinking of a double feature on uploading to YouTube since I’ve been getting a lot of questions about that over the last few months. Think that might be useful? Let me know in the comments!
This last week is a good one! We’re looking at an old school technique where you can render an object in 3dsMax, extract the diffuse map and alpha map, and then re-use them as elements in another render. It seems rather simple, but it’s actually a very powerful 3d technique! We Bryce 3d users used to use it back in the old days to pack detail into a scene that our computers might not otherwise be able to handle. Alpha mapped plane objects should be part of any modeler’s pipeline- especially you low-poly junkies out there!
“When I saw this photograph on the Web I thought of a tower destroyed by a bombardment, and due to the angle of sight I liked the architecture.The First stage is of knowing what “will be destroyed” in a coherent way.”
“First of all, I want to say, in these steps I use a lot for stamp tools, outer glow, and “color dodge” for blending mode. For the picture that I use in this tutorial, I take it from internet, so I really thanks for the picture that provided by someone that I don’t know on Internet 
okay, let’s begin.”
“Today, I will explain to you guys what is Z Depth. Because many of you will undoubtedly not be familiar with z-maps, their creation, or their use. The term z-map might be a little misleading to those who are not familiar…”
“One of the most important parts in visual effects, and also one of the easiest and cheaper one to do is a matte painting. Regardless of whether it is painted on a piece of glass or generated on computer it serves one purpose ‘ creating or extending the virtual space of the scene”
We will be creating an mystic night scene with rainy atmosphere. Few preprations are required before u start. First baisc step is a concept and where will be the matte paint used? Always start with rough thumbnails. Bring down your thoughts on paper. Scan it if needed.Try to colour them roughly with simple patches of colours considering the atmosphere you want. Once you are happy with the result its time to finalize!
“This tutorial is actually a “making of” where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. I use a Wacom Intuos’ A4 board, if you don’t have any graphic board this is going to be hard but not impossible. . .”
“This tutorial is actually a “making of” where I explain how I proceeded to achieve this matte painting. I use a Wacom Intuos’ A4 board, if you don’t have any graphic board this is going to be hard but not impossible.”