In the second DVD of this series, Matt Hartle focuses on lighting, shaders, and High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) within Mental Ray for Maya. Mental Ray supports most of Maya’s features, in addition to many others. This DVD shows you how to get the best use of Mental Ray to render fluids, particles, fur, geometry based paint effects, blurry reflections and refractions, area lights, contour rendering, and High Dynamic Range images.

Rob Pincus covers the topics of lights, lasers and night sights in his customary empirical and practical style all in this one comprehensive DVD.
Rob demonstrates intuitive techniques for using a handheld flashlight with a defensive pistol and shows the advantages of having a laser on your defensive pistol for extreme situations. Rob even tackles the sticky issue of when night sights could be valuable to help you decide on whether or not their are a worthwhile investment.