Render Globals (Video tutorial)This is one of the most frequently asked questions at Simply Maya:
Q. How do I render a movie?
A. Here you go... Mike will show you how. This is a tutorial will have you making movies in no time!...
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Using the RGB + Alpha Channels to speed up the rendering times in Maya
This lesson shows you how to use the RGB and Alpha channels of an image to your advantage. In this lesson we’ll go over how to store textures inside an RGB image so only a few images need to be loaded in Maya come rendering time. You can use these channels to store any black and white images you need...
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Render Passes for Maya - Tutorial
This is a very simple tutorial to lead you through the steps involved in setting up a scene to use Render Passes. The pass created here will not be useful for anything, but it will give you an idea of how to go about creating whatever passes you need...
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Batch Rendering Multiple Maya Files
Suppose you have animated your heart out and you are ready to render. The only problem is that you have sixteen million scenes with three camera changes each. That's a lot of rendering especially if you don't have an render farm at your disposal! You could stay up all night baby-sitting your machine but there is a easier way. Batch command rendering! In this tutorial, I give a few examples of simple batch commands using a text editor such as Window's Notepad to write a series of instructions for rendering non-stop scene files...GO