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Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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# 1 11-12-2006 , 12:56 PM

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I downloaded the trial, just to give it a spin and see what the hype was about. I was wondering what you guys thought of it. I must admit without looking at the walkthroughs im a bit lost besides making a primitive and switching between the diffrent parts (edges, vertices, faces). What got me to give it a try was how i keep hearing how easy it is to model, and how it has the mental ray "fully" intergrated ie not a plugin. So what do you guys think of it

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# 2 11-12-2006 , 01:45 PM

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what kind of responses do u think youll get on a maya forum. user added image

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# 3 11-12-2006 , 02:13 PM

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i love XSI, definately a great software.. i use it farely often.. it is second only to maya and Silo:attn:

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# 4 15-12-2006 , 08:29 PM

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I started on XSI 4, mainly due to the hype from Half Life 2.

Its not a patch on Maya.

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# 5 15-12-2006 , 09:20 PM

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XSI is a great program. It is used by a lot of major studios and I'm sure there are a few of us Maya users that are using more than one platform (Lightwave, Max).

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# 6 15-12-2006 , 09:30 PM

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i use maya and xsi
and max at work.
i can honestly say xsi is lightyears ahead of maya.

and eons ahead of max.

see for yourself.

https://www.softimage.com/products/xs...px?video_id=23

i know some people [including me] say its not the app , its the artist, but give Da vinci a pencil and ask him to draw the madona, or give him a full set of brushes and oils and see the difference [same artist, better tools user added image

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i started using xsi and only use maya for soem specific uses... barely open it anymore. infact, almost never
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# 7 15-12-2006 , 09:59 PM

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Thanks for the responses guys, I think im going to give it a try. Right now im more focused on learning maya, but im going to try to learn this also. Since i dont want to end up being a one program wonder.

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