This is a realistic interior render made in Autodesk Maya using animated lights. The standard technique of interior render in Maya have been integrated with various lighting sources to make possible the realistic render. The modeling in Maya have been made using poligons and nurbs surfaces. The whole video render have been outputted by Mental Ray for Maya.
(Realistic Render of an interior render kitchen with Autodesk Maya and Mental Ray)
This is a realistic interior render in Maya inspired by the Traditional Tuscan Country Kitchen ‘s style. To make the realistic render I did a deep work on light setup and material settings.
Everything is modeled in Autodesk Maya using poly modeling techniques, very useful to make scenes for interior render. A lot of work took the custom texture painting over the surfaces, I used wood reference photos taken during one of my winter Alps journey.
(Modeling in Maya, Realistic Render in Maya and Mental Ray | February 2013)
In this Free Maya Tutorial we are going to take a look at an effective and quite simple technique to achieve realistic clouds in Mental Ray Physical Sun and Sky inside Maya. Adding clouds can greatly increase the appeal of your renders. If you want to do realistic exterior renders in Maya and Mental Ray you can’t miss this article!
TYPE: Free maya tutorial render
CATEGORY: Maya render, Mental Ray Render
The good old Mental Ray did some big steps toward modernization with the 2017 release. Now it has a more efficient IPR, a brand-new GI engine (GI Next) and a more user-friendly interface. On the other hand the render engine market is full of CPU and GPU alternatives to Mental Ray, but the oldest and most feared competitor is still V-Ray. Who wins the render engine battle V-Ray VS Mental Ray 2017?
TYPE: maya guide
CATEGORY: Render Maya, Mental Ray, VRay Render, VRay vs Mental Ray
Starting from Maya 2017 Arnold became one of the standard built-in render engines for Maya, replacing Mental Ray in its historical role. Anyway we can still download the latest Mental Ray release from the official Nvidia website. The question is: what is the best render engine for Maya 2017? Just take a look at Arnold VS Mental Ray for Maya, and make your pick!
TYPE: maya guide
CATEGORY: Render Maya, Mental Ray, Arnold Render, Arnold vs Mental Ray
I made this scene to improve my skills on cameratracking, multipass and compositing. The shaking of the camera and the choose of the environment (a dark garage) was done with the purpose to make the camera tracking process more difficult | November 2012
Autodesk Maya has many powerful tools to create your own carpet. I find simple way to make a rug in Maya that is also compatible with any render engine. In this free Maya tutorial we will see a simple and effective tecnique to build your own realistic carpet in Maya and Mental Ray using polygon modeling, mental ray proxies and simple mel scripting. Enjoy the carpet creation in Maya!
TYPE: Free maya tutorial
CATEGORY: Modeling, Render Maya, render Mental Ray
Here we are going to see a very simple but effective technique to lit and render your exterior scenes using Maya and Mental Ray renderer. The Mental Ray built-in Sun and Sky system is one of the more powerful tool inside Maya. Some people are tempted to think that it's something for noobs and starters... believe me it's not! Let's get started with this free Maya tutorial about relistic exterior render in Maya.
TYPE: Free maya render tutorial
CATEGORY: Maya exterior render, Mental Ray Exterior
Maya integrates one of the most important Mental Ray feature, that can make you render billions of polygons. It's an easy and very effective way to populate your Maya and Mental Ray scenes with thousands of objects like plants and trees without overload your system. Your CPU, your RAM and your girlfriend will thank you because of the time you can save with this trick! Go ahead and start this free Maya tutorial.
TYPE: Free maya tutorial
CATEGORY: Render Maya tutorial, render Mental Ray tutorial
In this free Maya tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic bed using Maya and Marvelous Designer, an external software which is great in cloth simulations and fashion design. Download Marvelous Design now to learn clothing techniques with its 30 days free trial version. Are you ready to learn amazing techniques combining this two great softwares?
TYPE: Free Maya tutorial, Marvelous designer tutorial
CATEGORY: Modeling, Cloth simulation
