Hi!

This one is less dark...

And with less smooth reflections.

I want to add some fog effect to give the image that look of dust being illuminated by the spot. I tried to use the SpotLight...

Hi DJ BLazer!

I usually use this settings for Mental Ray Anti Aliasing:
Min Sample Level: 2
Max Sample Level: 0
Mitchell Filter preset.

What do you think of this settings?
Should I try...

Hi Alienscience!

Thanks. I've been studying Maya in a more discontinued manner than I wish, but it has been since the release of Maya 5.0.

Oh, and I agree with you about the Black Keys. It...

Last one for today.

I tried to achieve the same result I got in the last image, but tweaking the warm PointLight Intensity instead of postprocessing.

It's still a little too dark.

Thanks...

Fifth.

I artificially cranked the overall lighting using post-processing with photoshop. I adjusted the contrast of the image.

I liked better the result.

Guess the image lost some quality...

Fourth.

No more GI to reduce render time. Just the 2 lights and Mental Ray just to get the Blurred Reflection effect (quite render time consuming also)
I'm quite satisfied with look without GI.
...

Third image.

Changed GI and Lighting settings to get into a darker mood.

I like better this mood.

Problem I couldn't solve:
The grainy look at the floor. I guess that this have something to...

Now, heres the subsequent one.

Added Blur to the reflections, but still need tweaking to avoid graininess.
Also better Anti-Aliasing.

Sorry, I did something wrogn whe attaching image.
Hope now this works...

Hi everybody.

This is my first post here at Simply Maya and I am very happy to participate on this. Considering I'm a noobie in every aspect, I hope you feel free to make any kind of advice or C+C...