Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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Maya and Mudbox / ZBrush
why use Mudbox / ZBrush when you can just model most of the detail in Maya? Is it so you can add more detail onto the model and then bring that detail back into Maya as a texture / bumb / displacement map? (I feel I may have just answered my own question!)
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Zbrush allows you to do a lot more, in fact the question could be in reverse "Why use Maya to model when Zbrush can do it all?"
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Of course there is overlap, but they present different workflows.
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But yes, you've got the jist of it.
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Theres a real tendancy to over cook a model with Zb or MB. I really go balls out on the main model and get it as near as damn it before committing to hi detail which gets turned into a map anyway.
Im working on some characters for a pilot tv show at the moment and the VFX director asked me to sculpt the characters in zbrush and make them loo chisled, I put him off straight away as I could do it in the mesh with the arsing about. I did it of course, the mesh is lighter and the rendertime is quicker, and the edits are far easier on character design changes. Theres too much emphisis on super hi detail, the human eye cant even pick it up at 12inches on a normal day unless you are looking for skin pores LOL
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I am learning Mudbox at the moment and will be using it more for textures and details.
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