In today’s quick tip, Dimitar Katerov will explain what proxy objects are, and how they can be used to render an insane amount of polygons in a single scene. If you’ve ever gone through the pain inducing task of trying to render a scene with a few hundred high-res tree models.

In this quick tip tutorial we will learn how to make Maya particles visible to reflections and refractions.

The purpose of this tutorial is to familiarize you with the following: Working with Mental Ray in 3DS MAX and Rendering diamonds with Mental Ray.

In this tutorial I cover a clay render technique in 3D Studio MAX using Mental Ray renderer.

Learn how to simplify the mental ray bump network using mib_bump_map2 node.

Create mental ray bump network.

Here I will teach you about 3dsmax mental ray barstool model tutorial.

What I'm going to do is try and show you the main steps of how I made my "Male Green Frog" image. I used Maya 8 for modelling, MentalRay for rendering and Photoshop for the textures.

This tutorial is for all my 3d artist friends out there & it’s all about using ambient occlusion in 3ds max with the help of just mental ray.

This tutorial goes through the basic steps of making a car paint that can be used with Mental Ray and the software renderer.