Lighting Strike

• Add Rain & Atmosphere then build a Lightning Bolt
• Use Action Essentials 2 and make Sam explode

go to Lighting Strike

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Lighting Explosion

• Animate a person exploding from a lightning blast
• Composite footage elements from Action Essentials 2
goto Lighting Explosion

The semi-outdoor lighting uses a similar technique to the interior lighting in my previous tutorial. The semi-outdoor is slightly different in that the opening is bigger and divided by columns. read more

In this finalRender Stage-1 R2 training video,Edwin Braun goes over lighting an interior scene as well as techniques for developing good speed and quality workflow with AQMC.

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CGIndia.org brings to you a new V-Ray Studio Lighting Tutorial, especially for the guys who want to get photoreal. In this V-Ray + 3ds Max tutorial, Kádas Géza explains in step by step method of lighting the interior scene. Geza with the help this tutorial explains the various stages involved, in the creation of photorealistic 3d Rendering.

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At the time of He has lectured on the 3ds Max, always commented to my students a curious fact in relation to the use of external rendering to the Max After the Mental Ray is now integrated with the software as a way of encouraging their Autodesk use, was somewhat meaningless the addition of other renderer as the V-Ray or Final Render, as in virtually all respects the Mental Ray meet the needs of artists, with advanced options of Ray Tracing and lighting overall.

But this time the Autodesk failed to convince many people on the mass adoption of the renderer. Why not? Simple to learn just ask any artist what he thinks of Mental Ray and most will say that the learning curve it is very long. This means that you need much practice and study in order to effectively dominate the software, so he still finds strength in artists who need speed and speed in rendering solutions.

For people who are still learning the operation of Mental Ray, and want to start doing some tests with the software, I found a very interesting and simple tutorial, which also uses one of the scenes that accompany the 3ds Max This tutorial shows the configuration of global illumination, using a single point of light in this case a light-type Omni.

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