In today’s tutorial, Crystal Leal walks us through how to render out a wireframe version of a model using either Mental Ray or Maya’s own Vector Renderer. Once rendered, the sequences are then composited together in After Effects and rendered out to video.

In this tutorial Ahmed Fathi takes a look at how to composite together V-ray render layers using blending-modes and masks in Photoshop. Once completed, this process allows you to change or tweak any aspect of your image in seconds without having to re-render a thing!

Pratik Gulati walks us through how he created his stunning image, ‘The Church of Light’, using 3Ds Max. He covering all of the modeling, material creation, lighting, render passes and the post-production techniques used.

This tutorial focuses on writing scripts that may be used to act on certain events. You can learn what script links and space handlers are and how they can be used to perform activities on each frame change in an animation. You\'ll learn to look into ways to augment the functionality of the 3D view.

Learn how to not only generate smoke, but to render it successfully as well.

This tutorial will cover how to save images from the render view in Maya, plus some advice on what file format to choose.

This tutorial teaches you how materials work, and how to create materials in Maya.

Learn the difference between some of the different renderers available in Away3D. Demo and source code included.

In this video, from “Rendering with mental ray in 3ds Max 2010”, learn how to combine two of mental ray’s most powerful features, Global Illumination and Final Gather.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a halftone pattern effect inside Maya.