Course
Skills Expanded
Creating and Integrating Weather Elements in Maya
Throughout this Maya tutorial, we'll create dynamic weather effect from start to finish. Software required: Maya 2014, NUKE 8, PFTrack 2013, V-Ray 24241.
What you'll learn
Throughout this Maya tutorial, we'll create dynamic weather effect from start to finish. Starting with a piece of live action footage, we'll create a match move camera, then we'll set up rain and blowing leaves using Maya nParticles. We'll finish by rendering our simulations out in V-Ray and composite them over our footage in NUKE. After completing this Maya training, you'll have created your own dynamic weather elements, that'll help you effectively change the look and feel of your own videos. Software required: Maya 2014, NUKE 8, PFTrack 2013, V-Ray 24241.
Table of contents
Introduction and Project Overview
0mins
Creating and Integrating Weather Elements in Maya
120mins
- Tracking Footage in PFTrack 7m
- Preparing Our 3D Scene for Dynamics 8m
- Creating Our Rain Simulation 10m
- Modeling Leaves and Setting Up an Instancer 10m
- Refining Our nParticle Simulations 11m
- Preparing Our Simulation for Rendering 11m
- Adding Color Variation to Our Leaves 8m
- Creating a Shader for Our Rain Particles 11m
- Lighting Our Environment 9m
- Adjusting the Settings on Our Render 10m
- Compositing Our Renders in NUKE 9m
- Refining Our Leaf Simulations 12m
- Reviewing Our Final Results 5m
