From the course: Maya: Natural Environments
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Next steps
- [Aaron] In this course, we've seen an overview of the tools and techniques of natural environment modeling in Maya. As always, there's more to learn. We didn't have much time to discuss lighting, but I did cover the essentials of exterior day lighting in another course, Maya: Rendering with Arnold 6. Even if you're using another renderer, the concepts of sky dome and directional lighting will still be relevant. That Arnold course also covers the very important techniques of displacement and render time subdivision which are essential for many photorealistic landscapes. In the exercise files for this course, I also employed a few shading techniques that we didn't have time to fully explore. But again, I covered those tools and processes in other courses. Check out Maya: Advanced Materials for a deeper understanding of physically-based shading with the Autodesk standard surface. For guidance in developing complex…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.