V-Ray

Forest Pack PRO

Quixel Suite (Megascans, Bridge and Mixer)

Students will use these tools specifically to quickly create a 3d environment that is fully photorealistic, complete with photoscanned models, scatters, photoscanned materials, professional models and atmospherics. Students will also go over a professional post-processing workflow for environment scenes.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This is not a beginning course for 3ds Max, but rather a course about unlocking 3ds Max using 3rd party tools to quickly create amazing 3d environments. Students will be surprised at how easily they can improve their scenes with proper knowledge of the tools and workflow. Below is a basic outline of what to expect:

Basic modeling of terrain in 3ds Max

Forest Pack PRO – all the settings you need to know to have complete control over your scene

Quixel Bridge – use Bridge to quickly and seamlessly import photoscanned content into your scene

Importing professionally made models into your scene to add realism (i.e. Evermotion models)

Quixel Mixer (coming soon) – Use Mixer to create photorealistic materials for your environment scene with photoscanned content

Atmospherics with both 3ds Max and V-Ray techniques

V-Ray Render Settings

Professional post-processing in Photoshop – add more atmosphere with V-Ray Zdepth channel, use Camera Raw filter, etc.

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