Lighting and Rendering a Sci-Fi Hero using V-Ray in Maya
In this tutorial we will learn to light and render a highly detailed Sci-Fi character using V-Ray, Maya and NUKE. Software required: Maya 2014, V-Ray 2.4 for Maya, NUKE 7, .
What you'll learn
In this tutorial we will learn to light and render a highly detailed Sci-Fi character using V-Ray, Maya and NUKE. We'll look at the steps required to setup V-Ray lights using camera projection techniques. To start we will use V-RayLightRect to setup a simple scene. Along the way we will use camera projection techniques to setup the lighting for our Sci-Fi hero, finally we will create precomps/lighting comps using NUKE. By the end of this tutorial you will have a solid understanding of the workflows that are required to light, render and precomp a highly detailed Sci-fi character. Software required: Maya 2014, V-Ray 2.4 for Maya, NUKE 7, .
Table of contents
- Setting up Our Lighting Scene 9m
- Setting up VRayLightRect 9m
- Setting up Our Character's Mesh 10m
- Continue Setting up Our Character 10m
- Setting up Camera Tracking Data in NUKE 10m
- Exporting Camera Data 10m
- Setting Our Camera Locators 8m
- Using V-Ray Rt to Setup VRayLightRect 9m
- Using Camera Projections 9m
- Starting Global Illumination Set Up 9m
- Casting Global Illumination Bounce 9m
- Adding Pieces to Our Model 9m
- Adding Final Touches to Our Laser 10m
- Optimizing Our Scene 9m
- Setting Scene for Render 9m
- Adding Render Elements 9m
- Creating Our Fog Layer 9m
- Adding a Chrome Pass 9m
- Starting Lighting Comps in NUKE 9m
- Expanding Our Light Comp 9m
- Comping Additional Passes 9m
- Creating Our Final Lighting Comp 9m
- Finalizing Our Pre/light Comp 6m
About the author
Clifford Otomi Green is Senior Lighting/Look Development TD at Zoic studios Vancouver BC, Canada. Previously he has worked for various VFX studios such as, Red Vision, Aardman animations, Mr.X, and MPC to name but a few. Clifford started his 3D career over 10 years ago and in that time attended various VFX institutions to further develop his understanding of the intricacies of Visual Effects in film and television. He is passionate about film making and photography and has contributed to a few i... more