Tag Archives: Lighting
Ambient Occlusion Combined with Toon Shader Tutorial
(Editors note: Hey folks, this is the last post we'll be seeing on here until January sometime - I'm entering a heavy development phase and I can't maintain this as well. I will be back though, promise. For now, over ...
Mental Ray Caustics Tutorial (Maya)
Alright, after so much anticipation in creating a lighting tutorial in Maya, I'm back with a proper, easily understood, video lesson regarding Caustics. The Video lesson is about 20 minutes and focuses on Maya's Mental Ray system shaders and lighting ...
Tutorial: Make a Procedural Ice Texture
All right, here's the deal. I've gone ahead and made the texture, along with tutorial video, on my other computer (the one without internet) and I can't transfer it over here in order to upload. Quite a long story. At the ...
Inspiration; James Turrell
From famous glass-blowers to someone that can loosely be described as a light artist. In this post we’ll be looking at a completely different style of creation and what we can learn from the spirit behind it. Last week we ...
Inspiration: Dale Chihuly
Every profession has its heroes, and every individual in a profession has people they take inspiration from. This is particularly important in ‘creative’ industries, though you’ll see it happening across the board. The more aware you ...
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