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3ds Max and After Effects: Product Visualization

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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3D Design Courses Adobe After Effects Courses Autodesk 3ds Max Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn to render professional-quality product shots in 3ds Max and After Effects. This course covers shading, lighting, rendering, and compositing for product visualization.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to product visualization in 3ds Max
  • What you need to know
  • Using the exercise files
1. Scene Layout
  • Setting preferences and options
  • Importing CAD models
  • Cleaning up the scene
  • Managing display layers
  • Saving and loading an XRef
  • Modeling a background cyclorama
  • Creating a camera
  • Exposure control and environment lighting
  • Setting aspect ratio and framing the shot
2. Materials
  • Optimizing viewport display properties
  • Creating a physical material
  • Image-based lighting with an environment map
  • Adjusting material parameters
  • Base color and reflections
  • Art-directing materials
  • Mapping with procedural textures
  • Displacement mapping a physical material
3. Lighting
  • Floodlighting with Arnold Quad light
  • Directing floodlighting
  • Studio lighting with a spotlight
  • Attenuation over distance with Decay filter
  • Accentuating edges with rim lights
  • Excluding lights and shadows
  • White balancing for AOVs
  • Creating AOVs for render component passes
  • Creating light groups
  • Rendering components of light groups
4. Rendering and Compositing
  • Body Object Viewport Display options
  • Body Object Render Tessellation
  • Optimizing Arnold Render Settings
  • After Effects color management settings
  • Layering render components
  • Adjusting lighting in post-production
5. Special Effects
  • Framing an isometric view
  • Rendering a technical illustration
  • Adding glow effects
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Aaron F. Ross

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