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  Preview the Newest Creative Development Courses

  July 27, 2011 at 4:41 pm / Coming Soon

    These tutorials are now live: Creative Development   If you haven’t had a chance to look at the first release in the Creative Development series, we encourage you to check out this wealth of high-level training from professional production artists working in conjunction with Digital-Tutors. We’ve got five new additions coming to the series and you can see from the preview images below, these courses teach valuable tips, workflows and techniques for creating stunning work.

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  Automotive Rendering with HDR Light Studio and Maya – WIP

  March 18, 2010 at 4:15 pm / Coming Soon, Featured, Maya

  If you have to render an object that needs a studio look to them but don’t have access to a library of your own HDR images then you might want to look into HDR Light Studio.  We’ve been using this app for about a year and the results are incredible.  You have full control of your maps and how they look.  They also simulate a studio environment and the output can be used with any application.  We’re working with the [...]

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  Maya Shader: Building a good brushed metal shader

  March 10, 2010 at 1:09 pm / Coming Soon, Featured, Maya

  One of the key challenges to creating a good brushed metal surface you normally fake the grain of the metal using a texture.  We are experimenting with building the shader completely procedurally.  The anisotropic material will allow you to see the highlights but the reflections are not correct.  One of the shaders we are looking into using for this look is the MIA_Material_X to manage our reflections.

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