Maya: Submission Post - 06/05/2016

Pipline 2: Modelling

Games Assets PART 1 - Low Res Modelling

Game Assets PART 2 - UV Layout

Dynamics 1: Legacy Particles

Intro to Dynamics PART 1 - Sketching Particles

Intro to Dynamics PART 2 - Particle Grids

Intro to Dynamics PART 3 - Omni Emitters

Intro to Dynamics PART 4 - Directional Emitters

Intro to Dynamics PART 5 - Volume Emitters

Intro to Dynamics PART 6 - Emit from Curve

Intro to Dynamics PART 7 - Per Point Emission

Intro to Dynamics PART 8 - Surface Emission

Intro to Dynamics PART 9 - Curve Flow

Intro to Dynamics PART 10 - Emit from Particles

Intro to Dynamics PART 11 - Collision Events

Intro to Dynamics PART 12 - Instanced Objects

Intro to Dynamics PART 13 - Instance Rotations

Intro to Dynamics PART 14 - Animated Instances

Intro to Dynamics PART 15 - Goal Weights

Intro to Dynamics PART 16 - Conditional Goal Weights

Intro to Dynamics PART 17 - Sprites

Lighting & Rendering 2: Mental Ray

Mental Ray Sampling

Mental Ray Final Gather

MR Physical Sun & Sky

Mental Ray Portal Lights

Mental Ray MIA Material X

Mental Ray HDR Images

Mental Ray Ambient Occlusion

Motion Blur

Mental Ray Proxies

Adaptation A

A Beginner's Guide to Failure - Final Submission

Lighting & Rendering 2: Mental Ray Proxies - Tutorial

I have now completed all the Lighitng & Rendering 2: Mental ray tutorials. Overall, I managed to complete them with no problems and they were all very interesting and fun to do. The only slight challenge that I had with this tutorial is that I couldn't find the "Get Brush" tool straight away.

Lighting & Rendering 2: Motion Blur - Tutorial

I have completed both parts of the motion blur tutorial, with the arm batch render being in a video and the octopus, with some images showing frames at different shutter angle settings. Very straight forward and simple, so I had no problems with this one, except for Maya freezing when I changed the number of divisions in the Octopus when smoothing. I added the arm motion several times due to how fast it was.

 Shutter Angle: 72.00

 Shutter Angle: 144.00

 Shutter Angle: 250.00

Lighting & Rendering 2: Mental Ray Ambient Occlusion - Tutorial

Here are 2 of the renders from completing this tutorial. A very easy to folow tutorial, and so there were no problems following it.

Lighting & Rendering 3: Mental Ray HDR Images - Tutorial

This tutorial, obviously, had a bit more to it, but I didn't run into any major problems completing it.

Lighting & Render 2: Mental Ray MIA Material X - Tutorial

 A straight forward tutorial, where I had no problems completing it, although the lengthy render times persist.

Lighting & Rendering 2: Mental Ray Portal Lights - Tutorial

Like the previous tutorial, this took a lot longer to render compared to the one in the video, but once again, I had no problems completing it.

Lighting & Rendering 2: MR Physical Sun & Sky - Tutorial

 These are some of the renders, and final images, that I created by following this tutorial. For some reason, rendering took twice as long for me, but I didn't run into any issues completing it.

Lighting & Rendering 2: Mental Ray Final Gather - Tutorial

I have successfully completed the final gather tutorial with no problems, so I'm now going to continue working on this set of tutorials.

Dynamics 1: Intro to Dynamics PART 15 - Goal Weights - Tutorial

Dynamics 1: Intro to Dynamics PART 17 - Sprites - Tutorial

Dynamics 1: Intro to Dynamics PART 16 - Conditional Goal Weights - Tutorial

My goal weights tutorial video looked a little glitchy, for some reeason, so I'll need to fix that before uploading it - hence the skip to this tutorial.

Dynamics 1: Intro to Dynamics PART 14 - Animated Instances - Tutorial

Dynamics 1: Intro to Dynamics PART 13 - Instance Rotations - Tutorial

I've completed the remainder of the Dynamics 1 tutorial, so I'll be uploading them individually now. I had no major problems completing these.

Lighting & Rendering 2: Mental Ray Sampling - Tutorial

Half-Finished

I've left this tutorial incomplete for a while now and so I have finally got round to completing it. The top image shows where I had left it and the bottom image shows the final render - as you can see. I didn't have any problems completing the tutorial.

Final Render