Maya and Photoshop

Beer glass scene creation

This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.

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# 1 12-04-2007 , 09:04 PM

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Hi forum!

I am really just starting out.

But already it seems to be that you can do a lot of the cool 3d shadowing that you might do with a true 3d Modeling software (like Maya ) in photoshop.

For example, can anyone tell me how I could do this sort of box-like shadowing and shading like this:

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# 2 12-04-2007 , 10:25 PM

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is that with photoshop cs3?

its suppose to kick zbrush's ass

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# 3 12-04-2007 , 10:32 PM

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Originally posted by Bluecow
is that with photoshop cs3?

its suppose to kick zbrush's ass

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How would you do it in Maya?

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# 4 12-04-2007 , 10:58 PM

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with hours of UV mapping user added image

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# 5 13-04-2007 , 12:20 AM

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bluecow,
Zbrush is a completely different software, photoshop cs3 and zbrush dont even fit in the same category.
Zbrush is a 3d sculpturing software, photoshop is an image editing software.

-Andy

Environment Artist @ Plastic Piranha
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# 6 13-04-2007 , 03:39 AM

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I Doubt it would take hours of UV mapping to texture a simple object like that.

If its just the shadows that your after then just create a simple scene and render using raytracing, with a nice 3 point light set up, or possibly use final gather and a light dome.

"No pressure, no diamonds" Thomas Carlyle

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