it won't be able to render a beauty pass for the entire drum set because my computer just isn't powerful enough to calculate the high poly geo, IBL, materials, etc that the scene contains.

I have completed a model of a drum set and due to the complexity of the model I believe I will need to set up render passes/layers to render. Now I figured I could just do something like render all...

So this is where I am at now. The next part for me is lighting the scene. If anyone has any suggestions on what they think would be the best way go about getting the most accurate lighting for the...

Just wanted to thank you all for your advice as it has been very helpful.

joemilkweed: i got to UCF and its there Visual Language major under digital media (basically animation and game design).

I am recreating a scene from the movie Schindler's List for a class project that I am currently working on. The goal of the assignment is to model the scene exactly how it appears to look on screen....

First I'd just like to see I am new to this site as well as new to modeling. I am taking a class at the moment and this is the first object I've ever attempted to model in Maya. The project was to...