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Maya 2017 - Create realistic images using Arnold renderer (Udemy.com)

Learn the fundamentals of Arnold renderer by rendering a realistic scene in Autodesk Maya 2017

4.6
245 reviews

Created by: Bhaumik Patel

Last updated February 2017

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What you will learn

  • Render realistic images using Arnold renderer inside Maya
  • Use the different light types in Arnold
  • Use the aiStandard shader to create wood, glass and metal materials
  • Use the aiSkin material to make cheese and grape materials
  • Use the Arnold render view to troubleshoot and diagnose renders
  • Know how to use the Arnold depth of field controls
  • Know how to use samples to reduce grain in an image
  • Use sets to smooth objects at render time in Arnold
  • Use displacement in Arnold
  • Use textures and optimize them using tx maps

How it compares

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  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 56% of them
  • Reviews245#273 of 546 by number of reviews
  • Length3.4 hoursshorter than 72% of them
  • Last updatedFebruary 2017earlier than 92% of them

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Course Description

Autodesk Maya 2017 now comes with the industry standard Arnold renderer. Arnold is used by many visual effects and animations studios to produce stunningimagery for films and TV.

3 reasons learn this powerful renderer:

Make yourself more attractive to potential employers.
Take your work to the next level of realism.
Easier to learn than nearly all other renderers.

This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn to use Arnold to create great images from beginnerlevel. You will learn to light and shade a scene from start to finish, covering fundamentals along the way. This course will take you through a practical project ratherthan going over endless settings with a sphere.

You must use Maya 2017 or above and be familiar with the basics of Maya including selecting objects, navigating the viewport and basic rendering. If you are new to Maya I would recommend completing my Learn Maya - A Beginners guide to Creating Realistic Scenes course.

Sign up today and start learning the same software as the professionals and take your work to the next level!
Who this course is for:
Anyone who wants to learn to use Arnold renderer from beginner levelMental ray users who have upgraded to Maya 2017 and want to learn ArnoldAll models are included so there is no modelling required to compete the project
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Instructor Details

Bhaumik Patel

Bhaumik is a visual effects artist and bestselling instructor with 16years of experience in computer graphics. Four of those years were spent creating and teaching courses at Escape Studios. He spent the early part of his career in the games industry as an animator and rigger. Later he moved into the visual effects industry working on commercials, TV, VR and Film visual effects.

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4.6

245 ratings on Udemy

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By Deepak Bhadauria on 9/27/2020

Teacher is okay but this series only for maya 2017 version. So Don't buy this Maya upper version user....

By Tim Akgayev on 5/6/2020

He teaches the course well, explaining all the settings and showing the effects of changing each. He also shows settings that are not used during the tutorial and gives a basic rundown what the setting effects. The major problem I had with this course though is that it's outdated. For example making the glass shader was a pain since none of the settings that he uses are in the current version (I was using Maya 2020 with Arnold 4.0.21 at the moment of writing this). I had to look up other tutorials using newer version of Arnold to get the glass to look correctly.

By Rachel Brown on 4/8/2020

I am mainly self taught and I have been rendering with Arnold for quite a while now. I am embarrassed by how much I did not know about rendering with Arnold. The information Mr. Patel teaches is very well explained. He goes over all of the lighting and rendering settings very thoroughly using his own render to show you the effects and explains why they do what they do. I am very thankful for the classes he is offering and I would highly recommend this class to anyone who is interested in learning about lighting and rendering with Arnold. I would also take further classes with him in the future if available. I see that the instructor has also worked on animation, rigging and fx in his bio. I would be very interested to purchase them if instructed by him. :)

By Abhishek Panchal on 3/12/2020

I want Solution About my Doubt

By Tobby Kan on 11/3/2019

The VO quality can be increased

By Les duffield on 10/19/2019

learned some new things, confidence built on previous knowledge, easy to follow. not too slow, not too fast. Great!

By Liang Haofeng on 10/14/2019

Very good in the early progress. Exampled very well on every button/iron/tools and show it how to use them also.. Great!!
The course is using Maya 2017, right now i using Maya 2019 and half way overall progressing the course, alot of things has changed between 2017 and 2019.
Example
They fix alot of bug on arnold rendering review stuff.
Insert the imageplane on the camera is not working for M2019 and i need to use mesh to create plane for BG.
Skin shader is no more in M2019 and it merge with standard surface shader
They remove reflecting/refraction option
Alot of new tools, options, shader to play with
For now those people using latest version make sure you have all the basic course cover or experience on maya so that u can solve some of the problem that the videos that you saw can be done but in M2019 u cannot and need other way solve it. Luckily i have tons of experience using maya since 2012 so most of stuff can be solve and counter the problem.
If those people still quite new on maya and want to go through this course in the fast speed, best way is to downgrade using Maya 2017 to complete the course.

By Kaylin Gillman on 9/8/2019

A good match for me so far!

By Tommaso Mari on 8/17/2019

Ottima sto imparando molto

By Robby Rizky Nurfitra on 7/6/2019

easy to understand and catch up. Love it!.

By Ash Vella on 6/5/2019

An excellent starting point for beginners.

By John Sanchez on 5/20/2019

The information in the tutorial is outdated with Maya 2018. There are New workflows and shaders in arnold as of Maya 2018.

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