Then we discover bump and displacement mapping in Arnold. Not only you learn the fundamentals of this shader but also how to create some realistic shaders and materials with it. In the next section of the Comprehensive introduction to Arnold 5 For Maya, we start talking about Arnold shaders and nodes.įirst, we learn about the new Standard Surface shader which was introduced in Arnold 5 and it is the main shader in Arnold and capable of creating all sorts of materials, we dedicated 8 videos and almost two hours to discuss Standard Surface shader thoroughly. The lighting section of this course is 1 hour and 28 minutes in 12 lessons. We learn about amazing volumetric effects in Arnold, including Atmosphere Volume and Fog. We learn what are light filters and how to use them, what is S kyDome Light, physical sky and image-based lighting, you learn how to approach interior lighting in Arnold for Maya.

The next section of the course is dedicated to lighting, we learn about different lights in Arnold and different lighting techniques, we learn about area lights, spot, directional and point lights, mesh and photometric lights. Sampling and ray depth are the most important principles that you should be familiar with when working with Arnold, that’s why we discuss them comprehensively in 40 minutes and in 7 lessons, we make sure you comprehend the core principles before moving on to more general topics like lighting and shading. If you have any questions, contact us at: the past few years, here at, we have been teaching our favorite render engine, Arnold, to thousands of students around the world, and ever since, we have been getting daily requests to record a course about Arnold for Maya, and here it is, an academically approached, high-quality course on Arnold for Maya from the guys, you know they know their way around Arnold.įirst I show you where to find different Arnold tools and functions inside Maya, and walk you through the general workflow to get your job done with Arnold inside Maya. In this series of premium video tutorials in almost 9 hours, that’s more than 521 minutes of video tutorials, we learn how to use Arnold 5 for Maya.

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