Product Rendering with V-Ray
Lighting and Post-Production Techniques with Jesse Flores
Description
Discover what it takes to make great-looking product renders for print, packaging, and online marketing materials. By breaking down and investigating real-world examples and what techniques are used to showcase products in reality, instructor Jesse Flores reveals how to create an effective digital lighting workflow using Maya and V-Ray that offers complete control over the lighting in your scene, as well as how to rebuild renders in post-production as the final stage.
With over four hours of lectures, Product Rendering with V-Ray discusses the importance of how to set up your 3D camera in Maya and explains how various angles affect the value of the products you’re shooting as well as how each decision has an impact on your workflow. The lectures also include lighting techniques using HDR images, light textures, and mesh lights in V-Ray, and how each can successfully showcase details within a product to catch a consumer’s eye. The concluding chapters teach how to composite all of the render layers together in Nuke using Cryptomattes to achieve professional-looking final images.
Duration: 4h 22m
Format: HD 1920x1080
Jesse Flores
Look Development / Lighting Artist
Jesse Flores is a look-development and lighting artist currently working freelance at XYZ, providing high-end work for clients in marketing; a pivot from his previous blockbuster experience at Industrial Light & Magic. His film credits include Doctor Strange, Captain America: Civil War, and Transformers: The Last Knight.
A native of New York, Jesse graduated from School of Visual Arts and has worked at premier commercial studios such as Illuminarium Experiences, Tippett Studio, Hogarth, The Mill, Framestore, and Method Studios, as a lighter, texture artist, and look-development artist. He has also taught at the School of Visual Arts and, recognized by Foundry, has showcased his work at the NAB trade show.
