What you'll learn

In this series of lessons, we'll be taking a detailed look at each of Maya's Hypershade rendering nodes. Each video in this course is a self-contained lesson centering on one of Maya's Hypershade nodes. This means that these lessons can be viewed in any order you wish, allowing you to jump straight to the content that is most relevant to you. Over the course of these lessons, we'll discuss all of the attributes found in each of Maya's material types, we'll take a detailed look at each of Maya's 2d and 3d texture types, we'll explore the various general utility and color utility nodes found in Maya as well as many more of the nearly 100 maya rendering nodes found in the hypershade. Software required: Maya 8.0 and higher (project files created using Maya 2010.)