If you're a busy artist seeking high-end results for your 3D, design, or architecture renders using mental ray, this is the perfect book for you. It distills the highly technical nature of rendering into easy-to-follow steps and tutorials that you can apply immediately to your own projects. ...

In this 3DS-Max tutorial I am going to show you how to get soft shadows with the mental ray Renderer.

Showing you how to turn on Mental Ray in Maya 2009 so you can get the smoothness from the viewport into your rendering.

In this tutorial you will learn how to use the 3 indirect lighting systems in Maya (Global Illumination, Final Gathering, and Irradiance Particles) and caustics. You will learn how to solve common problems and reduce rendering times while creating hi-quality images. At the end of this ...