Tag: Mental Ray

Realistic Exterior Render in Maya: Leopoldina in Tuscany

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Exterior Render Maya and Mental Ray: 3d Villa Leopoldina Arezzo

This is a realistic exterior render in Maya of a tuscan villa called “Leopoldina” I made the 3d model using the poligonal modeling tools of Maya and the realistic rendered have been made in Mental Ray. The image is all 3D, no image is applied in post production.

To make the realistic garden I used my own collection of grass, flowers, plants and trees. I created these 3d models of plants and grass to make them look realistic without killing the rendering performances. All the texture are hand-made by me.

(3D Models and textures in Maya, exterior realistic render with Mental Ray | January 2013)

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Setup a Renderfarm in Maya and Mental Ray

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Setup a Renderfarm in Maya and Mental Ray free tutorial

Maya and Mental ray are one of the most used 3d graphic production platforms over the world. One of the reasons is their easy and very powerful multi-platform distributed rendering capabilies. Have you ever wonder to speed up you render speed by 2x 4x 8x and so on? Just follow my Mental Ray distributed rendering guide: maya render farm setup!

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Maya Interior Render: Chair on the rug

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Pedrali Gliss Chair render maya and mental ray

I created this scene for the Maya Carpet Creation Tutorial that you can find in the tutorial section of my website.

The environment and the subject is inspired by the studio where I worked in the last months, I made some modifications to make it more suits the needs of my tutorial (like the carpet). The entire modelling and render have been made in Maya and Mental Ray.

(Models and textures in Maya, rendered with Mental Ray | Febraury 2014)

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Realistic Exterior Render in Maya: Modern villa

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I saw this model as a render over the net made with 3d studio max and V-Ray, I tried to achive the same result with Maya and Mental Ray. So I remodel everything looking at existing renders, I had no technical documentation. The exciting part of this job was finding the way to handle millions of polygons, I thanked god for BSP2. I don’t know who wins between Mental ray vs V-Ray, but I’m pretty happy of my result.

(Models and textures in Maya, rendered with Mental Ray | July 2012)

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Exterior Render in Maya: Animated 3D Windmill

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This model has been made in Maya (polygon modeling texturing and animation). I used a special light setup which simulates indirect illumination without rebuilding the entire GI map. This means that there’s no FG flickering and you can speed up you render time, physical depth of field on, high quality shadow settings and animated grass in Maya.

Exterior animated render in Maya, December 2012

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Animated Trees 3D Wind Animation in Maya

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This model has been made in Autodesk Maya (polygon modeling, texturing and animation). I used the standard physical sun and sky light setup which simulates the real daylight systems. Highly optimized animated 3d tree models, high-resolution tree bark and leaves textures for close-up renders, especially suited to high-end architectural renders. December 2012

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Interior Render in Maya: Modern Luxury in Milan

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Milan Modern Apartment Rendering Mental Ray 2

This interior render of a modern interior was created for on of the most famous furnishing brands in Milano, Italy. 

The geometries are all polygons, the fur carpet has been made using Mental Ray Proxies. All textures are handmade starting from reference photographies. Renders are almost straight out of Mental Ray, very little post production.

(Models, shaders and textures: Photoshop and Maya ; renders by Mental Ray | June 2013)

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Chesterfield Armchair 3D Model and Render in Maya

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Chesterfield Armchair Render in Maya & Mental Ray

These model has been made in Maya using standard polygon techniques with some sculpting addons. The environment is a old scene I used for a client who needed an interior render of his living room. This Chesterfield 3d model armchair is a good subject if you want to play with DOF inside Mental Ray rendering. Complex Mental Ray fur it was also used to make a plus to the overal appeal.

(Models and textures in Autodesk Maya, rendered in Mental Ray | December 2012)

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Maya Interior Render: Mirror Room

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Interior render in mental ray: mirror mirror

These scene has been modeled in Maya with polygonal tecniques. I used some complex light set-up to make the image more contrasted. What I enjoyed here was the physical light silulation using Mental Ray caustics and Mental Ray SSS. This realistic interior render in Maya took about an hour.

(Models and textures in Autodesk Maya, rendered with Mental Ray | November 2011)

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