I bet you wern’t expecting this on a Thursday. This Monday Movie fills in the gap that came up when I was really sick that one weekend and couldn’t make a Monday Movie. In this video, we’ll look at how you can use the Parti Volume shader in mental ray to quickly create mist or volumetric lighting effects. It’s surprisingly easy to use once you know what spinners to mess with- but be careful! It can cause high render times!
Understanding Lights in Maya – Part 2
“Hello everyone and welcome once again in part 2 of (Understanding lights in Maya) tutorial, well in this part 2 we will explore Point Light and the Spot Light. In the first part we already cover the Ambient and Directional Light. Please read the Part 1 here”
Painting hair by Will Kramer
“I hope it will help you in your artistic endeavors. Some of the techniques used below can be used for painting all kinds of things in Photoshop.”
Working with ICE
Written June 18th, 2008
Categories: Animation / Rigging, Effects, Offsite, Softimage XSI, Videos
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“Get a free look into the inner workings of ICE and production workflow in this video from the “Mastering the Art of ICE Volume I: Breaking the ICE” series. In this video, we will look at working with an ICE Tree and how to tweak and work with the new volume shaders in XSI 7, which can help us to create some amazing looking ICE renders and effects.”
Modelling an Ear
In this tutorial you will learn a technique for modelling details that can be applied for many things. Specifically a human ear.