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Mental Ray: Lighting and Shaders

Rendering Techniques with Matt Hartle

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In the second DVD of this series, Matt Hartle focuses on lighting, shaders, and High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) within Mental Ray for Maya. Mental Ray supports most of Maya's features, in addition to many others. This DVD shows you how to get the best use of Mental Ray to render fluids, particles, fur, geometry based paint effects, blurry reflections and refractions, area lights, contour rendering, and High Dynamic Range images.

Lighting
Shaders
HDRI
Image Based Lighting
Reflections/Refractions
Sub-surface Scattering

Introduction
Shadows
Volumetric Shadows
Fur
Area Lights
Command-Line Image Conversion
Blurry Reflections and Refractions
Contour Shader
High Dynamic Range Images
BONUS - Subsurface Scattering: Fast Simple
BONUS - Subsurface Scattering: Physical

Product Code: MHA02
ISBN: 1-59762-000-9
UPC: 805366010133
Duration: 200 minutes
Formats: DVD-ROM

DVD-ROM Requirements:

1GHz or faster processor
512 MB RAM
64 MB Video RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
5 GB of hard disk space
1280 x 1024 display

DVD-ROM and Digital Download Requirements:

Minimum Operating System:

Microsoft® Windows® Vista®
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Apple® Mac® OS X 10.2

Software:

QuickTime Movie Player (Version 7.0 or higher)
Acrobat Reader (Version 5.0 or higher)

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Software Used:
Autodesk
Maya

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Matt Hartle

3D Director

Matt is currently 3D Director at DEVA Studios. Matt has been in the theatrical advertising and visual effects industry for over eleven years. During that time he has contributed to many projects including dozens of film trailers such as 10,000 B.C., Wanted, Beowulf, Forbidden Kingdom, the Harry Potter franchise, Iron Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Charlotte’s Web to name a few. He has also led teams that created such memorable studio logos as Sony Pictures Animation, JC 23, and many iterations of the Warner Brothers logo. Matt has taught at various institutes for animation and visual effects including the Academy of Art, San Francisco and the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. Matt studied Illustration at Art Center College.