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HDRI workflow with Maya and Photoshop Learn the fundamentals of High Dynamic Range Imaging and a proven workflow to creating and using HDR Images for a multitude to scenarios and projects.


mental ray Workflows in Maya: Caustics Learn creative practices for caustics, reflecting and refracting light rays, and time-saving rendering techniques that can be used in an array of scenarios that require caustic effects.


Maya video tutorial interios illumination without gi the interior illumination with final gather in maya 8.5 is very simply, see this videotutorial for create an interior design and illuminate without global illumination.

	Step by step by creating a simple phenomenon by: Haggi Krey Phenomena are collections of shader nodes that are connected together. They appear as a single node.

The HDRI handbook

Everything you need to know about HDRI.

If you are serious about photography, you will find that HDRI is the final step that places digital ahead of analog.

	Passes in mental ray by: Haggi Krey They use it to define several parts of a very large scene to split it up into different layers, here “passes”.