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Maya and After Effects: Product Visualization

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Render professional quality product shots in Maya. Learn about shading, lighting, rendering, and compositing for product visualization in Autodesk Maya and Adobe After Effects.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you need to know
  • Using the exercise files
1. Scene Layout
  • Setting preferences and interface options
  • Importing a CAD model
  • Cleaning up the model
  • Renaming objects
  • Building a hierarchy
  • Managing display layers
  • Modeling a background cyclorama profile curve
  • Extruding a cyclorama surface
  • Creating a camera
  • Setting aspect ratio and framing the shot
2. Materials
  • Image-based lighting with a Skydome map
  • Arnold settings for real-time rendering
  • Rendering on the GPU
  • Applying Arnold Standard Surface materials
  • Adjusting material parameters
  • Designing metallic materials
  • Assigning materials to shape nodes in a hierarchy
  • Art directing advanced material parameters
  • Projecting UV coordinates
  • Mapping with a file texture
  • Layering materials with aiLayerShader
  • Assigning materials to faces
3. Lighting
  • Flood lighting with Arnold area lights
  • Directing flood lighting
  • Studio lighting with a spot light
  • Attenuation over distance with the Decay filter
  • Accentuating object edges with rim lights
  • Excluding lights and shadows
  • Controlling visibility of light shading components
  • Setting up file output options for AOVs
  • Creating AOVs for render component passes
  • Creating light groups
  • Rendering components of light groups
4. Rendering and Compositing
  • Optimizing Arnold render settings for production
  • Choosing After Effects color management settings
  • Layering render components
  • Adjusting lighting in post-production
5. Special Effects and Animation
  • Creating an orthographic camera
  • Framing an isometric view
  • Rendering a technical illustration
  • Adjusting contours
  • Adding glow effects
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Aaron F. Ross

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