In this video Christophe Desse show us his workflow for the creation of his sketch and cell rendering in Maya 2009. This tutorial includes setting up the shaders and all the steps necessary to render them in Maya. He also details the compositing and finaling stages in Photoshop CSDownload the video tutorial here.

 .pdf | project files | +scene | 2.4Gb

.mp4 | project files | 9Gb

Escape Studios - Advanced Shading with- Maya & Mental Ray
English | Video: h264, yuv420p, 854x482, 966 kb/s | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, s16 | 3.62 GB
Genre: Video training

3D Total Lighting La Salle Maya + Mental Ray
English | PDF + Resource files | 36 pages | 2.43 GB
Included Maya + Mental Ray Resource files.

This five part series will focus on the topic of setting up a variety of lighting rigs that reflect natural lighting at different times of the day and manmade interior lighting. Each of the chapters will use the same base scene as a starting point, and will show a step by step guide to finding a lighting and rendering solution that best reflects the desired lighting situation.

The tutorials will explain the type of lights used and how to set up the parameters along with talking about the different methods of tackling the subject. The manipulation of textures may also be covered in order to turn a daylight scene into night scene for example. The artists will also look at some useful post production techniques in Photoshop in order to enhance a final still.

 English | PDF + Resource files | 36 pages | 2.43 GB

 Included Maya + Mental Ray Resource files.This five part series will focus on the topic of setting up a variety of lighting rigs that reflect natural lighting at different times of the day and manmade interior lighting. Each of the chapters will use the same base scene as a starting point, and will show a step by step guide to finding a lighting and rendering solution that best reflects the desired lighting situation.