Maya 2011 Create a CG Environment Tutorial by Stuart Christensen

A CG environment is sort of like a theatrical stage, the set is created to fool the human eye into thinking that everything looks normal from the perspective view of the audience or camera. This tutorial by Stuart Christensen will show you the mechanics of a CG environment and some things to pay attention to when creating your own CG world. As always, imagination is the key to developing a landscape with lighting, shadows and effects. Now get busy creating your won CG world! Enjoy! STU

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Maya
• 2011
• Stuart
• Christensen
• CG
• environment
• tutorial
• paint
• effects
• shadows
• deepfriedectoplasm

[TheComputerGraphics]

this is not tutorial bro ;) this is review of environment :d

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@TheComputerGraphics Actually this is a tutorial, just not in the "traditional" sense. The goal here is to show the "big picture" and how to use many elements together in order to create something. Sometimes you need to see a concept as a whole...it's called previsualization and this tutorial aims to show a quick set-up of elements working together. I'm sorry that it did not meet your expectations.

[thangQanime]

How dare you call this a tutorial. A tutorial is supposed to explain how to create the environment, not why it looks nice and is good to make one. Wtf. There was very little instruction here. Didn't learn anything!

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@thangQanime The reason you didn't learn anything is that you failed to see the big picture, this is about seeing all the elements in action, and not me hand holding you through creating stuff, I have plenty of those tutorials as well. So give up your arrogant attitude and sense of entitlement (remember I create these for free) and open your mind to the big picture and you will be a lot less frustrated.

[TheComputerGraphics]

@deepfriedectoplasm can u make human walk cycle or jumping tutorial ?

[radzuky]

This is great, i have been burning my brain cells lately trying to figure out how to create a big-ish scene, one thing though.. I like using mental ray, i like how easy it is to create a sense of realism but it is time consuming when it comes to rendering. Which do you recommend the most? Which gives more "realistic" results?

[cipher10000]

this is awesome expect some Pm's!

its sort of like a miniature.

[thangQanime]

@deepfriedectoplasm Oh man... not gonna lie, you just burned me. But this tutorial still sucks.

[emilwedodk]

You sir, you're my friggin hero - I love your tutorials - Thank you so much for putting so much time and work into these!

[TheGennaios]

on the render settings it suddenly dont show me the mental ray option what to do?