3D Computer Animation

Instruction Pages by Wobbe F. Koning

General Animation 3D Modeling 3D Animation Post Production Resources

Shading / Lighting / Rendering

Texturing, Assigning Color

• Assigning Textures, Projected Textures
• UV Texture Editing
  • Tutorial: Unfolding UVs - Updated with 3DUnfold.
  • UV Texture Editing (Including texturing Jane tutorial YouTube videos)
• Texture test images
• 3D Paint Tool - Not entirely up to date, but a useful tutorial on 3Dtutorialzone.com
• Vertex Colors
  • Painting and Rendering Vertex Color
  • Using Vertex Colors (Video)

Sub Surface Scattering

• Using textures:
  • Texturing with the misss_fast_skin shader Infosheet by Richard E. Fallat
  • Making of Where's She Looking by Joseph S. Langmuir

Lighting

• Light Linking

Rendering

• Rendering your animation
  • How to avoid that all the objects in your scene appear to be floating in space.
  • Rendering a Wireframe using Playblast
• Help! Something is Missing!
  • Load the Plugin through Windows > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager
    • Mental Ray: Mayatomr
    • Arnold: mtoa (solidangle)
• Better Shadow Passes in Maya by Jeremy Birn
  
  • Notes
• Easy Ambient Occlusion Tutorial by Jonathan Nelson [BROKEN LINK]
  Unsing render layers and presets to quickly add ambient occlusion to your scene
• Matte "Painting"

Non Photorealistic Rendering

• Toon Shading
• Toon Shading : Contours
  • Mental Ray Contour Shader Tutorial on the TU Delft site (Wiki Page)
• Cross Hatching on my personal site