Materials, Lighting & Rendering Tutorials at our Vimeo Channel

UVs in Maya
UV unwrapping in Maya with Michael Davies. Six short videos show how to unwrap UVs, why not all models need perfect UV maps, and how to use the UV Editor. 
https://vimeo.com/album/5396680

Texturing in Substance Painter with Will

Hypershade and Nodes
Learn how to use the Hypershade Editor in Maya, and also how to use the Node Editor, with Michael Davies
https://vimeo.com/album/5396697

Using Texture Maps
https://vimeo.com/album/5397020
Displacement Maps with Michael Davies

Texturing in Substance Painter
Texturing in Substance Painter by Michael Davies
https://vimeo.com/showcase/5399159

For more on texturing in Substance Painter with Michael Davies, see this blog post.

Materials, Lighting and Rendering
Maya Basics: materials,  textures, bump maps, lighting, and rendering with Michael Davies.
https://vimeo.com/album/5394014

For more on the basics of texturing in Maya with Michael Davies, see this blog post.

Maya Materials – The Basics

A Basic Introduction to Materials in Maya (for beginners – 5 minutes) 

How to use the Hypershade in Maya (Beginners – 5 minutes)

Creating and Assigning Materials in Maya – The Basics (5 minutes)

Lighting & Rendering in Maya: Arnold & Renderman

Shadows and Lighting Effects in Maya
Shadows and lighting effects in Maya with Michael Davies.
https://vimeo.com/album/5396718
To see more about shadows and lighting effects in Maya with Michael Davies, see this blog post.

Arnold Renderer
Learn the fundamentals of lighting and rendering with Arnold by Michael Davies.
https://vimeo.com/album/5396970

To see more on how to the use the Arnold Renderer in Maya, see this blog post here. 

Render Layers & Render Passes
Render layers and render passes, with Michael Davies
https://vimeo.com/album/5397104

Renderman
Learn the fundamentals of lighting and rendering in Renderman by Michael Davies.
https://vimeo.com/album/5399156

Creating Physically Based Shaders in Arnold
Learn to create materials for glass, metal, thin film & iridium, sub-surface scattering, and cloth, with Michael Davies.
https://vimeo.com/album/5399162

How to render animation “on twos”

https://vimeo.com/368544804

To see more about rendering animation on “twos”, read this blog post.

3D Stereo Rendering
3D Stereoscopic rendering in Maya with Michael Davies:
https://vimeo.com/album/5396966

For more on 3D Stereoscopic rendering in Maya with Michael Davies, see this blog post. 

“Qube” Render Farm

How to use Qube, Escape Studios’ Render Farm
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6634249  

Real-Time Rendering with Unreal Engine

How to use the Unreal Engine pipeline with Michael Davies
https://vimeo.com/showcase/5414193

To see more on how to the Unreal Engine with Michael Davies, see this blog post.