Lighting a Scene for Feature Film with V-Ray in Maya
In this Maya tutorial we'll explore feature film lighting techniques using V-Ray in Maya and NUKE. Software required: Maya 2014, V-Ray 2.4, NUKE 7.
What you'll learn
In this Maya tutorial we'll explore feature film lighting techniques using V-Ray in Maya and NUKE. Throughout these lessons we'll look at the steps required to set up advanced film lighting. We'll start by using an image-based lighting setup and four point light setup. Along the way we'll use Alembic to export our geometry and camera, then we'll create precomps/lighting comps using NUKE. By the end of this Maya training you'll have a solid understanding of the workflows that are required to light a scene in a feature film. Software required: Maya 2014, V-Ray 2.4, NUKE 7.
Table of contents
- Setting up Our Maya/v-Ray Lighting Scene 8m
- Bringing in Our Character 9m
- Beginning to Set up the Textures 10m
- Setting up Image Based Lighting 9m
- Image Base Lighting 10m
- Custom Lights Set Up 9m
- Continuing to Set up Custom Lights 9m
- Optimizing Our Character for Final Render 11m
- Background Shaders and Textures 9m
- Exporting Camera and Geometry with Alembic 9m
- Finalizing Our Light Comp 8m
About the author
Clifford Otomi Green is Senior Lighting/Look Development TD at Zoic studios Vancouver BC, Canada. Previously he has worked for various VFX studios such as, Red Vision, Aardman animations, Mr.X, and MPC to name but a few. Clifford started his 3D career over 10 years ago and in that time attended various VFX institutions to further develop his understanding of the intricacies of Visual Effects in film and television. He is passionate about film making and photography and has contributed to a few i... more