Lynda - Creating Shader Networks in Maya and Mental Ray Aaron F Ross 01 03 2013

1. 00 - Introduction/01. Welcome.mov9.29MB
2. 00 - Introduction/02. Setting up the course project.mov6.9MB
3. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/01. Creating a reference to save disk space.mov15.92MB
4. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/02. Getting familiar with the Hypershade.mov5.82MB
5. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/03. Creating shading nodes.mov13.27MB
6. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/04. Using the Hypershade with the Attribute Editor.mov12.57MB
7. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/05. Setting viewport render options.mov15.01MB
8. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/06. Using the Render view.mov13.68MB
9. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/07. Graphing networks.mov9.7MB
10. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/08. Understanding shading groups.mov7.54MB
11. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/09. Making and breaking connections.mov9.82MB
12. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/10. Using the Connection Editor.mov8.89MB
13. 01 - Hypershade Interface and Workflows/11. Organizing material libraries with bins.mov5.46MB
14. 02 - Essential Techniques/01. Introducing the Node Editor.mov6.08MB
15. 02 - Essential Techniques/02. Creating a matte painting with the surface shader.mov11.01MB
16. 02 - Essential Techniques/03. Controlling hardware texture quality.mov3.23MB
17. 02 - Essential Techniques/04. Lighting the scene.mov15.79MB
18. 02 - Essential Techniques/05. Choosing a diffuse color and amount.mov9.46MB
19. 02 - Essential Techniques/06. Understanding ambient color.mov2.89MB
20. 02 - Essential Techniques/07. Bump mapping.mov8.03MB
21. 02 - Essential Techniques/08. 3D texture placement.mov3.76MB
22. 02 - Essential Techniques/09. Defining specular shading.mov9.63MB
23. 02 - Essential Techniques/10. Duplicating networks.mov10.28MB
24. 02 - Essential Techniques/11. Building branching networks.mov14.62MB
25. 02 - Essential Techniques/12. Exporting and importing networks.mov5.99MB
26. 03 - Mental Ray Materials/01. Setting up the Mental Ray renderer.mov4.91MB
27. 03 - Mental Ray Materials/02. Lighting the scene for Mental Ray.mov11.61MB
28. 03 - Mental Ray Materials/03. Using Mental Ray shading nodes.mov10.68MB
29. 03 - Mental Ray Materials/04. Choosing mia_material_x presets.mov6.35MB
30. 03 - Mental Ray Materials/05. Exploring mia_material_x.mov8.02MB
31. 03 - Mental Ray Materials/06. Bump mapping in mia_material_x.mov6.01MB
32. 03 - Mental Ray Materials/07. Adding ambient occlusion to mia_material_x.mov14.92MB
33. 03 - Mental Ray Materials/08. Adding ambient occlusion nodes in shader trees.mov11.89MB
34. 04 - Glossy and Reflective Surfaces/01. Mapping specular color.mov19.09MB
35. 04 - Glossy and Reflective Surfaces/02. Adding reflectivity with raytracing.mov12.46MB
36. 04 - Glossy and Reflective Surfaces/03. Setting raytracing depth.mov6.34MB
37. 04 - Glossy and Reflective Surfaces/04. Shaping anisotropic highlights.mov8.89MB
38. 04 - Glossy and Reflective Surfaces/05. Creating brushed metal with a bump map.mov8.17MB
39. 04 - Glossy and Reflective Surfaces/06. Controlling the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF).mov9.93MB
40. 05 - Transparency and Translucence/01. Rendering refractions.mov6.68MB
41. 05 - Transparency and Translucence/02. Finding the facing ratio with Sampler Info.mov7.92MB
42. 05 - Transparency and Translucence/03. Modifying transparency with Remap Value.mov12.62MB
43. 05 - Transparency and Translucence/04. Rendering solid glass with mia_material_x.mov9.17MB
44. 05 - Transparency and Translucence/05. Backlighting materials with translucence.mov7.57MB
45. 05 - Transparency and Translucence/06. Mapping translucence.mov6.22MB
46. 05 - Transparency and Translucence/07. Rendering skin with subsurface scattering.mov13.41MB
47. 06 - Surface Relief/01. Adding detail with a displacement map.mov7.39MB
48. 06 - Surface Relief/02. Controlling displacement tessellation.mov4.62MB
49. 06 - Surface Relief/03. Working with Use Min Screen for camera-based displacement.mov6.53MB
50. 06 - Surface Relief/04. Converting displacement to polygons.mov4.59MB
51. 06 - Surface Relief/05. Normal mapping.mov10.41MB
52. 06 - Surface Relief/06. Generating a normal map with Transfer Maps.mov12.33MB
53. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/01. Filtering a file texture.mov9.63MB
54. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/02. Adjusting file texture color balance.mov5.66MB
55. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/03. Understanding 2D texture placement.mov16MB
56. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/04. Assigning materials by face component.mov10.41MB
57. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/05. Nesting maps.mov10.81MB
58. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/06. Compositing maps with a layered texture.mov8.99MB
59. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/07. Applying multiple UV sets.mov18.55MB
60. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/08. Compositing shaders.mov14.34MB
61. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/09. Driving ramp UVs with a texture.mov12.89MB
62. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/10. Modifying colors with Remap HSV.mov4.69MB
63. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/11. Building substance textures.mov19.49MB
64. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/12. Baking with Convert to File Texture.mov11.34MB
65. 07 - Adjusting and Combining Textures/13. Baking with Mental Ray Batch Bake.mov14.95MB
66. 08 - Special Effects/01. Constructing a candle flame shader.mov10.62MB
67. 08 - Special Effects/02. Using Shader Glow.mov10.47MB
68. 08 - Special Effects/03. Adding OpticalFX.mov7.69MB
69. 08 - Special Effects/04. Building a nonphotoreal shading network.mov3.71MB
70. 08 - Special Effects/05. Creating an ideal diffuse shader.mov2.39MB
71. 08 - Special Effects/06. Creating a noisy ramp.mov5.25MB
72. 08 - Special Effects/07. Adding colors.mov8.45MB
73. 08 - Special Effects/08. Setting a threshold with Remap Value.mov11.76MB
74. 08 - Special Effects/09. Multiplying values.mov16.37MB
75. 08 - Special Effects/10. Adding Brownian noise.mov12.42MB
76. 09 - Maya Toon/01. Assigning a fill with a ramp shader.mov11.51MB
77. 09 - Maya Toon/02. Assigning a Toon outline.mov3.82MB
78. 09 - Maya Toon/03. Editing outline attributes in the pfxToon node.mov9.46MB
79. 09 - Maya Toon/04. Manipulating outlines with a modifier.mov8.04MB
80. 09 - Maya Toon/05. Converting Toon outlines to polygons.mov7.04MB
81. 10 - Conclusion/01. Goodbye.mov771.09KB