Image info : A completely vertual image created using mental ray, Mia material, car paint, and HDRI env. mapping

TITLE: Fundamentals of 3d automotive/product visualization in maya
(Basic interface and rendering workflow knowledge in Maya is required)

Content Outline

• Product and automotive rendering - an overview
• Setting up indoor environment
• Different light types and their properties
  
• lighting up your scenes*
• Three point light grid concept
  
• Understanding shadows - raytraced vs depth map
  
• Light linking and discreet illumination
• 3rd party rendering tools*
• Creating car paint (maya shaders)
• Creating reflection lights
  
• Rendering scene with maya software renderer
  
• Intro to mental ray
  
• Important mental ray shader for product and automotive application
  
• explaining car paint phenomenon shader
  
• Introduction to indirect lighting
  
• Global illumination*
  
• Final gather*
  
• ambient occlusion
• outdoor (back plate image) rendering setup*
• Creating outdoor environment + HDRI workflow
• 3rd party shaders for Mental ray*
• Multi pass rendering
• Rendering your image
• Introduction to texturing
• Using alpha channel as decal cutout with 3rd party shader
• Decal mapping
• Working with floors and changing its rendering parameters
• Doing final rendering
• Q & A session
• conclusion
  

* discussion duration, depth of topic dependent on overall module duration.

Note: Module designed for 2 days (7 + 7 hrs) project based training consisting mainly lectures and live demo. Course content and duration can be customized with prior notice and mutual agreement