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Pluralsight

Product Visualization with Maya and Arnold

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Overview

Product visualization is very important when it comes to your pipeline. This course will cover creating a product render for advertisement. Software required: Maya 2017, Arnold, Photoshop CC.

Learn all about product visualization with Maya and Arnold. In this course, Product Visualization with Maya and Arnold, you'll focus on the lighting, texturing, and final render output of our product. First, you'll learn exposure values to control illumination within your scene and color temperature to control the output color of your lights. Next, you'll explore real world values in your shaders and texture maps, specifically IOR, reflectance at normal, and specular color. Then, you'll use Maya's render setup to create object IDs, masks, and ambient occlusion layers. Finally, you'll take your final image into Photoshop CC to make white balance adjustments along with other lighting adjustments. By the end of this course, you'll have the skills needed to produce an image for any product visualization, whether that be for digital or print. Software required: Maya 2017, Arnold, Photoshop CC.

Syllabus

  • Course Overview 1min
  • Studio Lighting Setup 51mins
  • Create Realistic Shaders and Textures Part 1 66mins
  • Create Realistic Shaders and Textures Part 2 65mins
  • Utilizing Render Setup 22mins
  • Setting up the Final Render 19mins
  • Post Production on Final Renders 26mins

Taught by

Kirt Haymore

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