CG Artist Toolkit: Maya Tutorials & Film Reviews Submission Post

Pipeline 2: Games Modelling

Modelling Part 1: Low Resolution

Modelling Part 2: UV Layout

Modelling Part 3: High Resolution

Pipeline 2: Normal & Occ Maps

Maps Part 1: Base Normal Maps

Maps Part 2: Rope Normal Map

Maps Part 3: Ambient Occlusion Maps

Pipeline 2: Diffuse Maps & Viewport 2.0

Maps Part 4: Base Diffuse Maps

Maps Part 5: Diffuse Maps - Stone Base

Maps Part 6: Diffuse Maps - Stone Pillars

Maps Part 7: Diffuse Maps - Rope

Maps Part 8: Diffuse Maps - Wood & Metal

Maps Part 9: Diffuse Maps - Fabric Flag 

Maps Part 10: Normal Maps Using Xnormal & Photoshop – Shield 

Maps Part 11: Using Viewport 2.0 for Look Development & Rendering 

Pipeline 2: Shader FX

Part 1- Intro to Shader FX Networks
Part 2- Displacement

Part 3: Lighting
Part 4: Transparency
Part 5: Reflection
Part 6: UV's & Animation

Dynamics 1: Intro to Particle Dynamics

Part 1: Sketching Particles

Part 2: Particles Grids

Part 3: Omni Emitters

Part 4: Directional Emitters

Part 5: Volume Emitters

Part 6: Emit From Curves

Part 7: Per Point Emission

Part 8: Surface Emission

Part 9: Curve Flow

Part 10: Emit From Particles

Part 11: Collision Events

Part 12: Instancing Objects

Part 13: Instance Rotations

Part 14: Animated Instances
Part 15: Conditional Goal Weights
Part 16: Goal Weights
Part 17: Sprites

Lighting & Rendering 2: Mental Ray Lighting Techniques

Part 1: Samples & Quality Control

Part 2: Final Gather

Part 3: Linear Workflow

Part 4: Physical Sun & Sky

Part 5: Portal Lights

Part 6: Mia Material X Shader

Part 7: High Dynamic Range Image (HDR) Lighting & Fixing Incorrect Meta Data

Part 8: Displacement Maps

Part 9: Ambient Occlusion
Part 10: Motion Blur
Part 11: Mental Ray Proxies

Adaptation Film Reviews

Mary & Max 
Paprika 
Sita Sings the Blues 
Waltz with Bashir 
Persepolis 
Belleville Rendezvous 
When the Wind Blows
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 11 (Mental Ray Proxies)

This is the outcome from the mental ray proxies tutorial.

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 10 (Motion Blur)

This is the outcome from the first part of the motion blur tutorial.

This is the outcome to the second part of the motion blur tutorial.

Motion Blur by 1

Motion Blur by 5

Maya 3D Motion Blur

Maya 3D Motion blur with Shutter Opened

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 7 (High Dynamic Range Image [HDR] Lighting & Fixing Incorrect Meta Data)

These are the outcomes from the HDR tutorial.

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 9 (Ambient Occlusion)

This is the outcome from the Ambient Occlusion tutorial.

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 8 (Displacement Maps)

These are the outcomes from the Displacement Map tutorial.

From Mudbox

Mental Ray Approximation Editor created 

Displacement Map

Vector Displacement Map

Final Rendered Image

Toadstool Vector Displacement Map

Displacement Map Bounding Box (1.5 by 1.5 by 1.5)

Displacement Map Bounding Box (3 by 3 by 3) 

Final Rendered Image of Toadstool

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 6 (Mia Material X Shader)

This is the outcome from the Mia Material X Shader Tutorial where each sphere has been assigned to a Mia Material X shader with different presets given to them.

This is the basic materials

I blended the materials with each other with differnt blending strengths

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 5 (Portal Lights)

This is my outcome from the Mental Ray Portal Lights tutorial.

Final Rendered Image

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 4 (Physical Sun & Sky)

This is the outcomes from the Physical Sun and Sky tutorial.

Gamma Correction Added to the shaders

Horizontal Height was moved down

Rotation of the light to create a sunset effect

Linear Workflow

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 2 (Final Gather)

This is my outcome from the Final Gather tutorial.

Final Gather

Final Gather with mia light surface material assigned to selected objects

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 1 (Samples & Quality Control)

This is my outcome from the samples and quality control tutorial.

Render 1

Render 2

Render 3

Render 4

Render 5

Render 6

Final Render

Lighting & Rendering Part 2: Mental Ray Part 3(Linear Work Flow)

For this tutorial, I've learnt about a new workflow called the Linear workflow whereby I do the correction of colours by changing several settings in Autodesk Maya. 

The settings I had to change was in render settings, I had to enable the colour management from sRGB to Linear RGB. 

Upon doing so, the objects in my scene like the chair and the ball are bleached out and so I had to connect a gamma correct node to the colours. As for the textured objects in the scene, I changed the Colour Profile from sRGB to Linear RBG.

Gamma Corrected Image

Linear sRGB applied to the Chair's blinn, the scene's texture

Corrected Image

Batch Rendered (EXR file extension)

Raw Image (Corrected in After Effects)