Learn how to use mental ray’s Global Illumination and Final Gathering inside SOFTIMAGE|XSI for a photo-realistic render and learn industry tips and tricks on how to combine mental ray’s lighting features for higher quality renders.
How to use GI and Final Gather
Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Lighting, Offsite, Rendering / Compositing, Softimage XSI, Videos
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Categories: Lighting, Offsite, Rendering / Compositing, Softimage XSI, Videos
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Making of Eternal Flame
Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Lighting, Modeling, Offsite, Rendering / Compositing, Softimage XSI, Textures / Materials
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Categories: Articles, Lighting, Modeling, Offsite, Rendering / Compositing, Softimage XSI, Textures / Materials
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“Every piece of work is a new step in a long, never-ending staircase… Everything I learnt in “Eternal Flame” I wish to fully apply on future works that I’m thinking of making. Thank you for your attention. This image was made in Softimage|XSI 5.11″
Pigeon: Impossible – Part 2
Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Lighting, Maya, Offsite, Rendering / Compositing, Videos
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“This second part contains 5 podcasts from the film, hope you will enjoy these informative behind the scenes.”
Pigeon: Impossible – Part 7
This is 18th podcast from the short film Pigeon Impossible. In these podcasts Lucas Martell giving some inside tricks
Dome Based Lighting
“Hello everyone and welcome to Dome Based Lighting tutorial, in this tutorial I will show you how to light up your scene using dome based lighting with Maya 8.0, I love this technique because it’s very fast in rendering and you can save lot of your time using this method.”
Reaslistic Lighting with LDRI
“One of the biggest inventions in the last few years in realistic lighting solutions is the appearance of HDRI images and lighting the scenes with them. If you have the collection of hdri images in on your computer, and these images are just the ones that you need, then you don’t have anything to worry about.”
Making of Quiet Room
Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Lighting, Maya, Modeling, Offsite, Rendering / Compositing, Textures / Materials
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“Hi everyone, in this “making of” article I am going to show the general process that I went through to create the “Quiet Room.” I used Autodesk Maya to model all of the objects and used Photoshop to do the texturing. “Quiet Room” is one of my recent personal works ‘ I love scary movies, so I think it would be interesting to do an empty, creepy little room.”
Understanding Lights in Maya – Part 1
In this series we will explore maya each and every available light. This tutorial cover Ambient and Directional light
Understanding Lights in Maya – Part 3
“Hi Guys and welcome to part 3 of (Understanding Lights In Maya), in this tutorial we will understand the Area Light and Volume Light. In previous parts we already covered Ambient, Directional, Spot and Point Light. Please read the Part 1 here and Part 2 Here. Ok let’s started by creating a Area light in the scene.”
Understanding Lights in Maya – Part 4
“Hello guys and welcome to the last part of Understanding Lights In Maya tutorial, in this tutorial we will light up an interior scene which should help you understand how lights works and how to setup lights to illuminate any interior scenes.”
Making of Sohrab
Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Articles, Maya, Modeling, Offsite, Rendering / Compositing, Textures / Materials
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“The character you seen in the picture is one of the most famous Iranian historical characters named Sohrab and he is the son of Rostam, the greatest Iranian hero. In the story Rostam (the father) kills sohrab (his son) as an unknown enemy and this is one of the most tragic legends of Iranian culture. The original tragedy belongs to 7000 years ago.”
Maya Lighting Video Series – Part 2
“In this Maya Lighting tutorial series by CGInstructor.com we will post 18 video tutorials on regular intervals, so you can learn everything about maya lighting as learning in a class, this is a second part of the series. After following these tutorials you’ll be comfortable with the Lighting in Maya.”
Maya Lighting Video Series – Part 3
“In this Maya Lighting tutorial series by CGInstructor.com we will post 18 video tutorials on regular intervals, so you can learn everything about maya lighting as learning in a class, this is a third part of the series and including this we posted 9 video tutorials. After following these tutorials you’ll be comfortable with the Lighting in Maya.”
Maya Lighting Video Series – Part 5
“This is final part of the maya ighting series and hope you have learned a lot from these video tutorials. Please install the Quicktime plugin to watch these tutorials. Those users not able to watch the tutorials in Firefox 3, they can watch these tutorials in IE 7, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari.”
Making of Fire Escape
“The first step in all of my paintings, whether it is a character or an environment, is to lay down the basic shapes. These shapes become the building blocks of the illustration, and without them it is easier for your illustration to fail.”