HDR scene setup (3D Studio Max, VRay)

First of all it is very useful to have your scene set up in real world units. This is necessary in order to rebuild the real lighting environment. Everything of the render engine (VRay in this tutorial) is using real world scaling to mimic real world conditions. Doing High Dynamic Range renderings just needs one light source: the HDR file. The light we have to use is the VrayDomeLight, which guarantees nice lighting, shadows and caustics. Downlo…

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Maya Tutorial – Making 3D Environment

Maya Tutorial – Making 3D Environment. The following tutorial will take you step by step through the creation of a natural environment in Autodesk Maya. You will also setup a character inside the environment and to add interactivity in Virtools. This 3d tutorial introduces you to Maya’s 3D Paint Effects allowing you to paint in 3D. A few strokes can paint trees, grass, flowers. The paint strokes from your brush are converted into 3D objects insi…

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3DS Max Tutorial : Interior Lighting with Standard Lights

3DS Max Tutorial : Interior Lighting with Standard Lights. This is the video tutorial that discuss how to create realistic interior scene, using 3DS Max standard lighting tools. Create realistic interior lighting and design the ligthing source with standard 3DS Max lighting. Setup soft and hard-edged shadows and light colors for added realism. This 3d video tutorial covers about : Learn how to light an interior scene, using only 3DS Max standar…

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3ds Max 8 Architectural Visualization Part 4 Lighting

In this tutorial, you’ll tackle what is considered by most veteran 3ds Max users as the most critical component of any 3D scene—lighting. Although the topic of lighting is enormous, here you will see just how easy it is to achieve great lighting results in just a few minutes. In this tutorial, you’ll begin immediately by placing several light sources in your scene to simulate global illumination—a term used to describe the bouncing of light from…

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VRay Tutorial – Studio Lighting

The VRay tutorial – Studio Lighting (with 3DS Max) by CG Artist, Géza Kádas.The main subject of this tutorial are : making 3d environment, placing the light, setting up VRay, shaders, setting up for final rendering, photoshop touch. In this VRay tutorial you will learn the method of studio lighting achieving with VRay. The chair in this tutorial called “Corbusier” was modeled in 3DS Max 9. With the knowledge of this tutorial yo…

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