Digital Tutors - Creating a Presentation Ready Architectural Visualization in Maya and V-Ray

Duration 2h 22m Level Advanced Project Files Included MP4

These lessons are intended to walk a viewer through the actual workflow used by architecture and visualization offices in the creation of presentation-level imagery. Aimed at viewers already having a basic proficiency with the software, this tutorial focuses on how to create a compelling image in a short time frame.In Maya, we?ll look at multiple ways of lighting, creating materials, and organizing a scene, so you can choose the best option for the job.

In Photoshop we?ll make sure our workflow provides maximum flexibility and editability. We'll look at plenty of tips and tricks, including modeling techniques and plug-ins I have picked up over years of experience.

We'll hopefully speed up your workflow so you can meet that deadline.

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Organizing our scene and setting up a camera

3. Modeling details and adding assets to our scene

4. Adding V-Ray proxy trees to our scene

5. Getting our base render settings and adding our primary light

6. Using V-Ray RT to adjust our lighting and camera

7. Creating basic interior lights

8. Creating and working with IES lights

9. Creating water with the VRayWater texture

10. Adding materials to our scene

11. Creating a metal panel material

12. Cracking the concrete and creating grass with V-Ray Fur

13. Setting up V-Ray render elements

14. Creating an occlusion render layer

15. Preparing the final render settings

16. Importing our renders into Photoshop and organizing our file

17. Making adjustments and adding textures

18. Adding atmosphere and final adjustments

19. Using presets in Magic Bullet Looks

20. Blending the Looks layers and finalizing our image