Creating virtual product shots reduces the need for photography. But those shots need to be accurately shaded, lighted, and rendered to seem realistic. 3ds Max can help. It's a powerful application for design visualization. In this course, you'll learn to shade, light, and render a product shot in 3ds Max. Aaron F. Ross leads you through the entire production workflow, starting with a prebuilt CAD model.

Once the model is imported and the scene is organized for 3ds Max, Aaron shows how to create Arch & Design materials, construct several different lighting setups, render in mental ray, and color correct in Adobe After Effects. Explore the power of 3ds Max to present your product renderings in their best light.

 

Aaron F. Ross leads you through the entire production workflow, starting with a prebuilt CAD model. Once the model is imported and the scene is organized for 3ds Max, Aaron shows how to create Arch & Design materials, construct several different lighting setups, render in mental ray, and color correct in Adobe After Effects. Explore the power of 3ds Max to present your product renderings in their best light.

 

Topics include:

• Importing solid models as 3ds Max body objects
• Working with the scene layout, hierarchy, and display layers
• Building Arch & Design materials
• Creating area and photometric lights
• Setting exposure control
• Optimizing indirect illumination with Final Gather
• Image-based lighting with high dynamic range files
• Lighting with self-illuminated geometry
• Rendering to high dynamic range
• Saving render passes with Render Elements
• Adding ambient occlusion
• Layering and color correction in After Effects

 

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