mental ray Nods in Maya

An in-depth guide to learning mental ray shading nodes

Learn the fundamentals of mental ray nodes in Maya and add visual depth to your work. Contains over 4 hours of project-based training. Perfect for intermediate artists. .

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mental ray in XSI

A fundamental guide to rendering with mental ray

Productivity-focused training combined with proven time-saving tips, "mental ray in XSI", provides enjoyable, hands-on projects developed to maximize your understanding of mental ray and add visual richness and strikingly realistic lighting to your work.

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Digital Tutors

Mental Ray in Maya:Rendering Workflow

An in-depth guide to learning the fundamentals of rendering with mental ray

Add stunning detail and visual depth to your work and easily learn the fundamentals of rendering with mental ray in Maya. Contains over 3 hours of project-based training. Perfect for beginner and intermediate users.

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Digital Tutors

Mental Ray in Maya

A fundamental guide to rendering with mental ray in Maya

Learn the fundamentals of mental ray and begin adding visual richness to your work with 2.5 hours of comprehensive training. Ideal for new and beginning users.

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Autodesk

Mental Ray for Maya

Learning Maya | mental ray® for Maya is your key to understanding the power of mental ray for Maya. Gain a strong understanding of how mental ray works through the theoretical discussion provided by Andy Kopra of mental images. You'll also get started with some helpful tutorials so that you can see the practical applications of that theory. Presented by Alias Product Specialist, Ashraf Aiad, the tutorial portion of this DVD will allow you to get rendering right away

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Autodesk

Mental Ray Techniques: Illustrated Concepts

90 minutes of fully-animated training about the way mental ray works. Animations Show the functonality of many mental ray features and help you visualize the processes that you cannot see during rendering.

This training uses mental ray terminology to explain concepts that apply to any application that uses mental ray as a rendering engine.

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MESMER

Real Maya Mental Ray DVD

Maya. Real Maya mental ray walks you through the concepts and features of rendering with mental ray, demystifying everything from basic shader application, to optimizing render time, to harnessing caustics and Global Illumination to produce truly photorealistic CG images.

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Gnomon Workshop

Mental Ray Fundamentals

In this DVD, Matt Hartle focuses on teaching the fundamental aspects of the Mental Ray renderer, including memory and performance, sampling, image output, motion blur, displacement and depth of field. By understanding the technical implementation of these different aspects of the Mental Ray renderer, you will be able to dramatically increase the speed and efficiency of your renders to produce production level results.

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Gnomon Workshop

Mental Ray Lighting and Shaders

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.

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Gnomon Workshop

Mental Ray Global Illumination

In the third disk of this series, Matt Hartle focuses on Mental Ray's special rendering features, including global illumination, caustics, final gathering, and image-based lighting. Using multiple examples for each topic, this DVD teaches you efficient ways of using tools, examining numerous ways to recognize and eliminate artifacts.

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