Stereoscopic 3D in Maya
Create audience excitement and interactive experiences. Learn practical workflows to making stereoscopic 3D imagery with Maya 2009 and gain total control over the camera, characters, and environments to create one of the most powerful effects in cinema. Software required: Maya 2009 and up.
What you'll learn
Create audience excitement and interactive experiences. Learn practical workflows to making stereoscopic 3D imagery with Maya 2009 and gain total control over the camera, characters, and environments to create one of the most powerful effects in cinema. Contains over two hours of project-based training and step-by-step examples for any artist. Popular highlights include: Stereoscopy Overview; Rules of Safe Stereo; Anaglyph Filtering; Previewing Stereo Images; Zero Parallax; Interaxial Separation; Frustrum; Customizing a Safe Volume; Creating Custom Stereo Rigs; Rendering Stereo Images; Compositing Stereo Pairs in After Effects; Anaglyph Effects in Photoshop; Loading Built-in Stereo Rigs; Python Scripting to Modify Stereo Rigs; Stereo Camera Settings and Defaults; Off-Axis Camera Types; Converged Camera Types; Parallel Stereo Camera Types; Extending Maya Stereo Camera with Expressions; Cross Converged Viewing; Parallel Pair Viewing. Software required: Maya 2009 and up.
Table of contents
- Creating a Stereo Image 10m
- Learning to Render Stereo Pairs 9m
- Defining Stereoscopic 1m
- Explaining the Different Types of Filters 5m
- Controlling Zero Parallax and Interaxial Separations 8m
- Covering the Rules of Stereo 4m
- Utilzing Stereo Display Controls 8m
- Creating Custom Safe Stereo Guide 9m
- Working with a Converged Stereo Camera 7m
- Using the Parallel Stereo Camera 3m
- Loading Custom Stereo Camera Rigs 10m
- Creating a Custom Stereo Rig Using Python 4m
- Setting Default Values in the Custom Stereo Rig 9m
- Adding Expressions to the Custom Stereo Rig 8m
- Setting up Shelf Buttons to Automate the Custom Camera 7m
- Creating an Anaglyph Image in Photoshop 8m
- Building an Anaglyph Image Sequence in After Effects 3m
- Creating a Stereo Pipeline for Color Corrections 8m
