Creating a Presentation-ready Architectural Visualization in Maya and V-Ray
These lessons are intended to walk a viewer through the actual workflow used by architecture and visualization offices in the creation of presentation-level imagery. Software required: Maya 2013, V-Ray, Photoshop CC, Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks.
What you'll learn
These lessons are intended to walk a viewer through the actual workflow used by architecture and visualization offices in the creation of presentation-level imagery. Aimed at viewers already having a basic proficiency with the software, this tutorial focuses on how to create a compelling image in a short time-frame. In Maya, we'll look at multiple ways of lighting, creating materials, and organizing a scene, so you can choose the best option for the job. In Photoshop, we'll make sure our workflow provides maximum flexibility and editability. We'll look at plenty of tips and tricks, including modeling techniques and plug-ins picked up over years of experience. Hopefully, we'll speed up your workflow so you can meet that deadline. Software required: Maya 2013, V-Ray, Photoshop CC, Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks.
Table of contents
- Organizing Our Scene and Setting up a Camera 9m
- Modeling Details and Adding Assets to Our Scene 9m
- Adding V-Ray Proxy Trees to Our Scene 7m
- Getting Our Base Render Settings and Adding Our Primary Light 7m
- Using V-Ray RT to Adjust Our Lighting and Camera 5m
- Creating Basic Interior Lights 9m
- Creating and Working with Ies Lights 8m
- Creating Water with the VRayWater Texture 5m
- Adding Materials to Our Scene 9m
- Creating a Metal Panel Material 10m
- Cracking the Concrete and Creating Grass with V-Ray Fur 10m
- Setting up V-Ray Render Elements 6m
- Creating an Occlusion Render Layer 9m
- Preparing the Final Render Settings 3m
- Importing Our Renders into Photoshop and Organizing Our File 2m
- Making Adjustments and Adding Textures 11m
- Adding Atmosphere and Final Adjustments 8m
- Using Presets in Magic Bullet Looks 3m
- Blending the Looks Layers and Finalizing Our Image 7m
