Learning Maya 6: Rendering is your resource for creating dazzling imagery in Maya. Get hands?on experience with the power of the Maya rendering engine and mental ray for Maya as you set lights and cameras to your scenes, apply materials and textures to your models, create shading networks, and much more! Whether you are striving for photo?realism, expressionism, or anything in between, achieve the results you want with Learning Maya 6: Rendering.

Get the look you strive for with Learning Maya 6: Rendering. This book will enable you to explore lighting, cameras, shading networks and other rendering issues from an introductory level. Get ready to explore advanced concepts in a comfortable format while you learn to take advantage of options such as hardware and vector rendering. Get the information you need to master Caustics and Global Illumination, Final Gather and HDRI. Learning Maya 6: Rendering includes an inspiring photo gallery of images rendered in Maya and mental ray for Maya so you can see the types of results you?ll soon achieve.

Each chapter includes a theoretical discussion to help you understand the concepts at play, as well as easy to follow step?by?step tutorials so that you can start working right away. The book also includes an accompanying DVD?ROM featuring chapter?by?chapter overviews offered by Alias Certified Instructors. Gain additional insight and assistance from these valuable bonus discussions. You?ll also take advantage of Maya Beginner?s Guide: Rendering to help you get started.
With this book you will:
? Create materials and textures
? Set up lights and cameras
? Work with shadows and raytracing
? Learn to control your renders
? Understand rendering for special effects and compositing
? Explore hardware rendering and vector rendering
? Create Caustics and Global Illumination effects
? Understand Final Gather and HDRI techniques
? Create Maya and mental ray Shaders
? And much more!

Maya is the premier tool for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. It is used by such film houses as Industrial, Light & Magic, Pixar, and Disney for creating 3D animation and special effects. In "Learning Maya 6 Rendering", readers explore textures, lighting, cameras, shading networks, and other core rendering issues. This is an official book, produced by Alias. It also includes "Maya Beginners Guide Rendering",a DVD produced by Alias that retails separately for $34.99.

Learning Maya 6: Rendering is your resource for creating dazzling imagery in Maya. Get hands?on experience with the power of the Maya rendering engine and mental ray for Maya as you set lights and cameras to your scenes, apply materials and textures to your models, create shading networks, and much more! Whether you are striving for photo?realism, expressionism, or anything in between, achieve the results you want with Learning Maya 6: Rendering.

Get the look you strive for with Learning Maya 6: Rendering. This book will enable you to explore lighting, cameras, shading networks and other rendering issues from an introductory level. Get ready to explore advanced concepts in a comfortable format while you learn to take advantage of options such as hardware and vector rendering. Get the information you need to master Caustics and Global Illumination, Final Gather and HDRI. Learning Maya 6: Rendering includes an inspiring photo gallery of images rendered in Maya and mental ray for Maya so you can see the types of results you?ll soon achieve.

Each chapter includes a theoretical discussion to help you understand the concepts at play, as well as easy to follow step?by?step tutorials so that you can start working right away. The book also includes an accompanying DVD?ROM featuring chapter?by?chapter overviews offered by Alias Certified Instructors. Gain additional insight and assistance from these valuable bonus discussions. You?ll also take advantage of Maya Beginner?s Guide: Rendering to help you get started.

With this book you will:

• Create materials and textures
• Set up lights and cameras
• Work with shadows and raytracing
• Learn to control your renders
• Understand rendering for special effects and compositing
• Explore hardware rendering and vector rendering
• Create Caustics and Global Illumination effects
• Understand Final Gather and HDRI techniques
• Create Maya and mental ray Shaders
• And much more!

This official book is written by Alias, the creators of Maya.

Learning Maya 6: Rendering is your resource for creating dazzling imagery in Maya. Get hands-on experience with the power of the Maya rendering engine and mental ray for Maya as you set lights and cameras to your scenes, apply materials and textures to your models, create shading networks, and much more! Whether you are striving for photo-realism, expressionism, or anything in between, achieve the results you want with Learning Maya 6: Rendering.

Get the look you strive for with Learning Maya 6: Rendering. This book will enable you to explore lighting, cameras, shading networks and other rendering issues from an introductory level. Get ready to explore advanced concepts in a comfortable format while you learn to take advantage of options such as hardware and vector rendering. Get the information you need to master Caustics and Global Illumination, Final Gather and HDRI. Learning Maya 6: Rendering includes an inspiring photo gallery of images rendered in Maya and mental ray for Maya so you can see the types of results you’ll soon achieve.

Each chapter includes a theoretical discussion to help you understand the concepts at play, as well as easy to follow step-by-step tutorials so that you can start working right away. The book also includes an accompanying DVD-ROM featuring chapter-by-chapter overviews offered by Alias Certified Instructors. Gain additional insight and assistance from these valuable bonus discussions. You’ll also take advantage of Maya Beginner’s Guide: Rendering to help you get started.

With this book you will:

• Create materials and textures
• Set up lights and cameras
• Work with shadows and raytracing
• Learn to control your renders
• Understand rendering for special effects and compositing
• Explore hardware rendering and vector rendering
• Create Caustics and Global Illumination effects
• Understand Final Gather and HDRI techniques
• Create Maya and mental ray Shaders
• And much more!

Learning Maya 6: Rendering is your resource for creating dazzling imagery in Maya. Get hands-on experience with the power of the Maya rendering engine and mental ray for Maya as you set lights and cameras to your scenes, apply materials and textures to your models, create shading networks, and much more! Whether you are striving for photo-realism, expressionism, or anything in between, achieve the results you want with Learning Maya 6: Rendering.

Get the look you strive for with Learning Maya 6: Rendering. This book will enable you to explore lighting, cameras, shading networks and other rendering issues from an introductory level. Get ready to explore advanced concepts in a comfortable format while you learn to take advantage of options such as hardware and vector rendering. Get the information you need to master Caustics and Global Illumination, Final Gather and HDRI. Learning Maya 6: Rendering includes an inspiring photo gallery of images rendered in Maya and mental ray for Maya so you can see the types of results you’ll soon achieve.

Each chapter includes a theoretical discussion to help you understand the concepts at play, as well as easy to follow step-by-step tutorials so that you can start working right away. The book also includes an accompanying DVD-ROM featuring chapter-by-chapter overviews offered by Alias Certified Instructors. Gain additional insight and assistance from these valuable bonus discussions. You’ll also take advantage of Maya Beginner’s Guide: Rendering to help you get started.
With this book you will:
* Create materials and textures
* Set up lights and cameras
* Work with shadows and raytracing
* Learn to control your renders
* Understand rendering for special effects and compositing
* Explore hardware rendering and vector rendering
* Create Caustics and Global Illumination effects
* Understand Final Gather and HDRI techniques
* Create Maya and mental ray Shaders
* And much more!

disapointment

Do not get this book if your hoping for tutorials that will help you learn the ways of maya. Files are missing so that you can not compleat the tutorials, a big disapointment!

disapointment

Do not get this book if your hoping for tutorials that will help you learn the ways of maya. Files are missing so that you can not compleat the tutorials, a big disapointment!

Very good mixied with very bad ...

This book certainly can help a beginer to reach intermediate level of understanding of Maya’s rendering abilities. Exemples are well chousen and well organised. A big downside, that mars the effort of otherwise knowledgable writer of this book, is miriad of nagling technical inconsistencies: files refered to have a different name on the CD and in the tutorial, some of instructions steps just turn up without any reference to the menu they came from, parameters in the book do not match thouse in the final file on the CD etc. If one is prepared to put up with this things, than book will deliver. On other hand video tutorial supplied on the CD is first class.

Very good mixied with very bad ...

This book certainly can help a beginer to reach intermediate level of understanding of Maya’s rendering abilities. Exemples are well chousen and well organised. A big downside, that mars the effort of otherwise knowledgable writer of this book, is miriad of nagling technical inconsistencies: files refered to have a different name on the CD and in the tutorial, some of instructions steps just turn up without any reference to the menu they came from, parameters in the book do not match thouse in the final file on the CD etc. If one is prepared to put up with this things, than book will deliver. On other hand video tutorial supplied on the CD is first class.

Very informative, in-depth coverage

It comes at a rather hefty $60 price, and it’s not for novice users at all. But if you’ve been doing Maya for awhile now, this is definitely worth it.

First, if you *are* still at a beginning/intermediate level, the included Rendering DVD has 5 or 6 lessons (if I recall) to bring you up to speed. The presenter (Bob Gundu) isn’t terribly exciting, but his walkthroughs are fairly clear and presented at an understandable speed.

At a higher level, the book really gets into how the software renderer works, with useful tips on how to get rid of banding in depth-map shadows, and how to use shading map nodes. There are some Mental Ray-specific chapters included as well; this renderer usually never gets decent coverage in other introductory Maya books. This isn’t a comprehensive reference (i.e. it won’t cover in painstaking detail *every* single texture node), but it’s a pretty useful tool for learning. I’d say this product is well worth the money.

Oh, and yeah, from what I recall, this book almost looks the same as Learning Maya 5, so don’t expect much of an update from that volume.

Poorly Written - not a good teacher

This book is the most dissapointing of a good series.

The author gives little or no explanation of rendering concepts or even simple explanation of what is going on through the examples. This makes completing tutorials difficult, and when you do battle through them, the concepts of rendering in Maya are still a mystery!

Please someone give us a book that teaches well.

A little disappointed.

This book I was a little disappointed in. It’s pretty much a mirror of the Maya 5 Rendering book. It even has the same color showcase of images. The only true addition to the book is the Maya Basics Rendering tutorial video thats located on the DVD (worth $34.99). If you previously purchased the Maya Basics Rendering DVD you pretty much have a revised Maya 5 Rendering book. The only reason I am giving it a three is because there is really nothing new.