Here we are going to see a very simple but effective technique to lit and render your exterior scenes using Maya and Mental Ray renderer. The Mental Ray built-in Sun and Sky system is one of the more powerful tool inside Maya. Some people are tempted to think that it's something for noobs and starters... believe me it's not! Let's get started with this free Maya tutorial about relistic exterior render in Maya.

TYPE: Free maya render tutorial
CATEGORY: Maya exterior render, Mental Ray Exterior

Maya integrates one of the most important Mental Ray feature, that can make you render billions of polygons. It's an easy and very effective way to populate your Maya and Mental Ray scenes with thousands of objects like plants and trees without overload your system. Your CPU, your RAM and your girlfriend will thank you because of the time you can save with this trick! Go ahead and start this free Maya tutorial.

TYPE: Free maya tutorial
CATEGORY: Render Maya tutorial, render Mental Ray tutorial

Maya and Mental ray are one of the most used 3d graphic production platforms over the world. One of the reasons is their easy and very powerful multi-platform distributed rendering capabilies. Have you ever wonder to speed up you render speed by 2x 4x 8x and so on? Just follow my Mental Ray distributed rendering guide: maya render farm setup!

TYPE: Free maya tutorial
CATEGORY: Rendering Maya, Hardware, Mental Ray Render