Maya Advanced Materials

Using simple Maya shaders in advanced ways can help you create more realistic and interesting materials for your 3D models. Watch this Maya training course to learn how to create and control advanced materials (including mental ray materials) in Maya.

Time to Master Maya 2022 & Arnold Renderer

Learn Modeling and UV Mapping (Maya), Materials (Substance Painter), and Rendering (Unreal, Marmoset, Arnold, Sketchfab)

Learn to render and light your 3D models in your favorite render engine!

A perfect start for Beginners seeking a Complete Training in 3D Animation from Basics to Advanced, 6+ Projects + Notes.

Master Python in Maya: Automation Techniques, Best Practices, Testing Methods, and all with Highly Efficient Code.

This project based course takes on the challenge of a snowy landscape. Snowy visuals in animation are quite complex and can be a challenge to the most experienced TD. The organic shape, depth and sparkles of snow are all difficult features. Together in a single scene they can be maddening. Paolo Copponi has taken on this challenge. Paolo will model in maya, shade in VRay, and compose in nuke. Every stage of this complex scene is covered in detail. This beginning-to-end approach in a lesson, takes the student from a blank screen to a complete REEL clip. This production pipeline is intended to achieve the balance between quality and speed that can be difficult with VRay. VRay materials, lighting and rendering can be a bear. He takes VRay further by setting up passes and elements for NUKE compositing. The VRay to NUKE pipe alone is worth this small cost. This is an intermediate to advanced lesson. The tools taught here require: Maya, VRay, Nuke and Photoshop. Trial versions of each should suffice to follow along.

Become a 3D Guru with this Maya Course great for Beginners and Intermediates

In this series of V-Ray and Maya tutorial, we'll examine step by step how V-Ray shaders work, and how we can modify, and stack them to create realistic materials.