Getting Started - Razor Crest VFX Lecture 01

An introduction to the Razor Crest VFX series. Over the course of these 9-hour lectures, brush up on PBR surfacing with UDIMs, learn about lighting, AOVs, render layers, batch and sequence rendering, EXR compositing, and ACEScg with Maya, V-Ray, and After Effects. These lectures were originally built for a college VFX class that I teach, taking students from beginner to intermediate level.
In this first part, we're reviewing how to set a Maya project, going over some useful Maya settings, getting started with the V-Ray PLE, and importing a model.
Download the free Razor Crest model by Tronman from CGTrader here: www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-mode...
V-Ray Personal Learning Edition (PLE): www.chaos.com/vray/maya/perso...
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[@supaflykai]

Always fun to find the RC out in the wild :) I'm glad it was put to good use!

[@CGStirk]

Thank you very much for your model and for making it available to everyone!

[@imtiazali6980]

Wooow

[@CGStirk]

Thanks :)

[@kieartist]

greatest man :) waiting for next part :)

[@CGStirk]

Thanks! The second part should be up tomorrow

[@natsodragnail2047]

😲😲😲

[@CGStirk]

👍👍👍

[@blacklight4720]

Thanks for giving us, the course.

[@CGStirk]

My pleasure! The full course will be released over the next four weeks.

[@Powerofpixel01]

brother are my great teacher .. because i have learn from you lots of thingss... i am a huge fan of you

[@CGStirk]

It's my pleasure

[@aryaman3083]

Thanks subscribed
When is the smoke sim part coming out?

[@CGStirk]

Sweet thanks. That part should be sometime during the week of the 30th I believe. Still have quite a few things to go over first.

[@roshdick]

I recently went through your tutorial on "VFX Plane EXR Compositing", then I wanted to create my own project and here I found Razor Crest, downloaded, opened in Maya, and here comes the message that a new video on CGStirk. -_-

[@CGStirk]

Haha, well there is a lot of new info with these and it's fully PBR this time, but the concepts in the older tutorials are still valid.

[@kronoverse3934]

thank you for this!!

[@CGStirk]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@5hvlog]

Thanks for the course, I'm learning a lot from you :)

[@CGStirk]

You're welcome. Glad to hear it

[@makeitlastmedia]

@@CGStirk keep them coming :)

[@TheMimzez]

I switched over to blender a while ago, but I'll still watch it for the compositing bit since I still like after effects, and maybe I'll learn some more about materials and texturing too
cool to see you making videos again!

[@CGStirk]

I should probably learn some Blender eventually, but I think the concepts will be the same. Not sure if Blender has a render layer system like Maya's. Thanks, yeah these were originally made for the vfx class last October, but after two semesters, it was too hard to finish in time.

[@TheMimzez]

@@CGStirk the free maya config addon really helped with jumping into it. it makes the controls more like maya so it makes sense, and there's a button to easily switch back to blender controls if you're following a tutorial
I haven't rendered much of anything yet but I think it might have layers, and if not, there's probably a free addon somewhere for it!

[@CGStirk]

That's something I had thought about. I didn't realize there was a switch back button. I always try to learn the native hotkeys just because of tutorials, but there's a limit to what I can remember. 3ds max, Maya, and Unreal are different enough.

[@unicornhuntercg]

@@CGStirk Yes Blender has Render Layers

[@CGStirk]

@@unicornhuntercg Sweet. Do they allow overrides like in Maya?

[@aswincp7243]

How many parts does this have? Can't wait for part 2

[@CGStirk]

I think about 20. Part 2 is out tomorrow!

[@shekharchauhan8507]

I use arnold, but whenever i texture my model i get this uv seems appears in render view, if you have any kind of solution I'm really grateful, by the way your tutorials are great

[@CGStirk]

Thanks. Are you referring to this Razor Crest model in Arnold? If so, it sounds like the UDIMs aren't loading. I believe the same tag is used in Arnold too. If you can post a screenshot on the Discord server I might be able to provide more help.

[@shekharchauhan8507]

@@CGStirk well I'm not talking about Razor Crest model, it's the one i model, when i add some imperfections i don't know why uv seems appears, still if you want to look out i can upload it to discord

[@CGStirk]

@@shekharchauhan8507 Is the texture map for the imperfections seamless? Yeah, it might help to see what the issue is.