Advanced Lighting with Maya & Mental Ray Online Course

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This 12 hour Advanced Lighting module will give you the creative and technical skills to illuminate any scene with sophisticated lighting techniques. You'll discover how to light characters with single or multiple light set-ups, and replicate daytime and night time lighting for exteriors. You'll explore the possibilities of image-based lighting and learn how to use lighting to suggest off-camera objects and space. To help you produce stunning renders and enjoy the most professional online learning experience possible, we've created a range of great assets and scenes for you to work on, including a a Bugatti Veyron with accompanying HDRI's.

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Advanced Lighting with Maya & Mental Ray
Lighting Theory Lighting Design Fundamentals
Colour Theory
Camera Composition - Rules of Thumb
Types of Shot
Lines of Actions
Simulating Natural Light
The Art of Lighting 1, 2, 3 and 4 Point Lighting
Light Decay
Spotlight
Area Lights
Decay Rate
Light Linking
Artistic and Mood Lighting
Gobos and Cookies Introduction to Shadows
Gobos and Cookies
Creative use of Depth Map Shadows
Daylight Naturalistic Lighting
Lighting a Street
Natural Set-up
GI Joe
Mental Ray Sun and Sky
Night and Artifi cial Lighting Lighting an Alleyway
IBL and Fog
Decay
Light Shape
Mental Ray Area Lights
Image Based Lighting IBL and HDR Theory
Lighting a Car
Camera Gates
Image Planes
Camera Mapping
Simple Tone Mapping
Using Back Plates
Product Level HDRs
Photographic Lighting Lighting a Product
Combining Real World and 3D Techniques

Guide Price: £180 (12 months access)