TUTORIALS
[ LAST UPDATE: GI IN MAYA 8]
   
  Global Illumination in Maya 8 INTERIORS (COMMING SOON)
Interiors Rewroted version of the global illumination in maya tutorial. I made a lot of changes and added some new chapters. It explores the global illumination in maya, specially for the interiors.
     
  Global Illumination in Maya 8 EXTERIORS (COMMING SOON)
Exteriors The second part of the global illumination in maya explores the area of exterior lighting, what are the most flexibile ways to setup light exteriors and talks a little bit about sky/sun system introduced in maya 8.5.

 
     
  Making of "Slow Decay "
Slow Decay was one of the first high detailed images that I made in Maya. This tutorial gives a lot of details about that project, from modeling to compositing. Since it has a lot of text I suggest you take some time to complete it.
     
  Making of "A Glimpse Of The Past"
Another making of, and this time for the Glimple of the Past image. As usual, I will cover every stage of the image creation process, with focus on texturing.
     
 

"Bounded by Destiny" - Overview
Short overview of my image Bouded by Destiny. I didn't go i to details about how I did model/textured etc... the goal was just to cover the complete process from the start till end so the reader can get a feeling how the image was made.

     
 

Using Global Illumination in Maya 5.0
This is my first eveer tutorial for maya. I went through the process of setting up the global illumination in maya. It is divided in four sections: two sections for interior lighting, one for exterior lighting and one for HDRI lighting. It was made for the first relase of mentalray within maya 5.0 so if you have older version of maya you can use it but if you have newer version I suggest you read new tutorial (above) on global illumination.
     
  Using Caustics in MentalRay for Maya
This tutorial explains the proces of setting up the caustics effect in maya. It is made for beginners and intermediate users. Tutorial explains how to setup caustics step by step trough three examples.
     
  Realistic Lighting with LDRI images
This tutorial talks about interesting process of scaling colors in LDRI images to create effect similiar to using HDRI images. It would be wise to learn something about final gather and globall illumination if you want to pass through this tutorial without any problems.