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 Complete or Maya Unlimited!?
Whats the difference? Any help would be great!
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"Maya unlimited version comes with an advanced set of tools not available in the Maya complete version.
Maya Fluid
A realistic fluid simulator (effective for smoke, fire, clouds and explosions, added in Maya 4.5)
Maya Cloth
Cloth simulation to automatically simulate clothing and fabrics moving realistically over an animated character, for example. The Maya Cloth toolset has been upgraded in every version of Maya released after Spiderman 2. Alias worked with Sony Pictures Imageworks to get Maya Cloth up to scratch for that production, and all those changes have been implemented, although the big studios opted to use third party plugins such as Syflex instead of the (relatively) cumbersome Maya Cloth.
Maya Fur
Animal fur simulation similar to Maya Hair. It can be used to simulate other fur-like objects, such as grass.
Maya Hair
A simulator for realistic-looking human hair implemented using curves and PaintEffects. These are also known as dynamic curves.
Maya Live
A set of motion tracking tools for CG matching to clean plate footage. "
Hope thats helpful to you
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If its just naimation that your after then I cant see any difference between the two to be perfecly honest (although cloth might help you out if you need clothing and maya 8.5 now had nCloth which is superb IMHO)
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Check out https://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...112&id=7635018 and maybe get the free PLE Version to learn with.
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Finding Nemo took 5 years to make. This is from idea to concept to the final product. I took 2 years to animate and 1 year to render in the Pixar Render Farm.
I would say a 20min anim could take about 6 -9 months for one person to do. Set your aims lower and do a 5 min one, its far easier to do on your own and is far more likely to be achieved. still 5 mins could still take over 1 month to complete.
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