Mental Ray Production Shaders in Maya

This course will teach you how to use the Mental Ray Production Shaders to improve your Maya renders. Topics include instantaneous motion blur with the mip_motionblur Node, using mip_card_opacity to render accurate depths and normal passes, resizing portions of images using the node mip_render_subset, compositing 3D objects into live action environments using the nodes mip_matteshadow and mip_mirrorball, as well other Mental Ray Production Shaders within Maya. Maya 2008 or higher is required.