In this series of lessons, we will be taking you through the process of rendering your Maya scene into multiple passes, and using some advanced techniques for compositing these passes using Fusion.

We will dedicate the first portion of this course to using Render Passes in Maya to separate various elements of our scene at render time. We'll use mental ray's render passes, contribution maps, custom framebuffers, and render layers to create the necessary render passes for our scene. In the second portion of this course we will begin with some quick compositing similar to our Compositing 3D Renders in Fusion course, but we will quickly get into more advanced topics such as basic and advanced Depth-of-Field techniques, working with HDR data, painting fixes and chromatic aberration.

Lesson Outline (20 lessons)

1. Introduction and Project Overview


2. Preparing Maya scene for multi-pass rendering


3. Creating Contribution Maps for multi-pass rendering


4. Setting up render passes in mental ray


5. Using Custom Color Buffers to render specialized passes


6. Creating new Render Layers and using Layer Overrides


7. Setting up our Frame Format and LUT to see HDR colors


8. Using Merges to composite 3D Render Passes


9. Color Correcting and Tweaking our Ant using various tools


10. Creating a Lightwrap to tie the Foreground to the Background


11. Fixing common HDR issues by Clipping the Matte's White


12. Painting our Alpha Channel to fix issues


13. Setting up a Basic Depth-of-Field effect using the Depth pass


14. Adding Depth-of-Field to the background


15. Expanding the Depth Pass to fix Haloing


16. Expanding the Depth Pass of the Background


17. Adding a VariBlur to fix the Ant Outline


18. Adding Chromatic Aberration to our image


19. Adding and Tweaking Grain for that final level of detail


20. Blurring the Depth Pass to fix tiny interpolation issues


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