This course, taught by Matt Leonard, is going to be slightly different from our other Maya offerings because we�re going to be working alongside a new and very exciting project called �Moving Day�. This short film is being directed by award wining director Jason Wingrove. �Moving Day� tells the story of a young girl and her fight against the fairies who inhabit the garden of her new home. Our short film is literally being produced throughout the term and we�ll have first hand experience of working in post during a live project.

In the series of lessons, we will explore the various tools, techniques, and procedures that we can use when lighting an outdoor scene in Maya. We will begin the tutorial by learning how to set up a realistic outdoor illumination source, and how to simulate physically-accurate light behavior within our scene.

This course will teach techniques and concepts for rendering realistic, physically based CG elements in a visual effects context (i.e. for integration into live action shots). As it is a hands-on course in using Mental Ray to do these things, it will start with a fundamental treatment of everything from light and pixels through to cameras, response curves and compositing, as well as "learning to see". The course will be performed using the 3ds Max application, but most things apply to Maya and Softimage as well.

In this DVD, after setting up various production lighting rigs, Tim discusses the pros and cons of each solution.

This course explores an efficient, easy to work, and forgiving method for taking a drawing to a finished color painting.

In this tutorial we will learn how to render realistic human skin and eyes using V-Ray for 3ds Max.