Portrait production : creating a realistic portrait in Maya.

In this DVD, Instructor Tony Reynolds takes you through the process of creating and rendering out a portrait using Mental Ray in Maya 2011. Tony starts off by taking a previously sculpted head from ZBrush and shows you how to prepare and export the model for Maya. From there he goes into great detai...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Eat.3D.com
Other Authors:	Reynolds, R. A.
Format:	Software eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Providence, Utah] : Eat3D, 2011.
Subjects:	Maya (Computer file) Computer animation > Technique. Computer graphics. Computer art > Computer programs. Computer-aided design. Instructional films.

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Summary:	In this DVD, Instructor Tony Reynolds takes you through the process of creating and rendering out a portrait using Mental Ray in Maya 2011. Tony starts off by taking a previously sculpted head from ZBrush and shows you how to prepare and export the model for Maya. From there he goes into great detail on all the Maya setup and settings, lighting with Mental Ray, simple and advanced skin shader setup, skin textures, rendering eyes, rendering teeth, rendering a tongue, creating hair for the face and head, using render layers, and compositing the render layers in Photoshop.
Item Description:	Disc does not work in DVD players. Title from title screen. Programs Used: Maya 2011, ZBrush, Photoshop. Project Files: Included are the Maya files, ZBrush files, .obj files, renders, textures, and final .psd as shown in the DVD. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 DVD-ROM (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD-ROM. System requirements: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz, 128MB of RAM, 64 MB of VRAM; Intel Core Duo 1.33GHz or faster processor; Windows 98, ME, 2000 XP, Vista, OSX 10.5.