Maya 2017 - Arnold Shaders

[@Tydwhitey]

I just wanted to say thank you too. I started out as a generalist but my career has come to involve very little shading/rendering. It seems that whenever I need to update my 3D Modeling reel I have to relearn the basics. For that reason I owe a lot to selfless pros like yourself willing to share their hard-earned wisdom. Thanks again.

[@T2000-f3j]

i say so far this is the best render tutorial for new learners on the internet

[@maddysdaddystevem563]

Probably the best Maya tutorials on the web. Thanks so much. Please stop misusing "Per Se".

[@outtoplay]

Outstanding Lesson. Thanks for the effort, and the geo to follow along. Will recommend this to my students!

[@yonesantana]

Thanks for your kind words.

[@avaloniloni7803]

The best tutorial here in KZbin ..thanks for your time

[@yonesantana]

Thanks for watching

[@arice1658]

Really the best tutorial I have found, great explanations and a lot of helpful hints : )

[@sherriandara2699]

Very thorough and smooth way of teaching. My hat's off to you. Thank you. :)

[@IlseZamarripa]

Amazing tutoial, thanks for explaining things so thoroughly!

[@NassibMohammed]

Thank you !

[@syedsyakir4683]

Thank you, all your tutorial is helping my final year project, looking forward for the next tutorial

[@halodu2de]

You are seriously so awesome. Your tutorials are incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!

[@bennychewDev]

This is really amazing stuff. Thanks a lot! I see you have a lot of other Maya tutorials on your channel. I'm going to enjoy watching these videos for sure.

[@yonesantana]

Thanks for taking the time to watch my videos.

[@lukakoprivica]

And a very, very nice explanation of color correction image options! Thanks!

[@yonesantana]

Thanks for watching

[@puspamelati7383]

This is very useful, I am a student and this help me a lot!

[@amerallnajjar4463]

Very amazing thanks alot! you are a teacher and you explain every thing with logic thanks!

[@xotrics]

This was amazing, thank you for helping me improve my shaders for my assignment.

[@yonesantana]

I'm glad it was helpful

[@milesmouse72]

this is really good and thorough, I teach intro to maya and rendering output production at a local film college...I've been looking for good tutorials on Arnold because it's so new..

[@yonesantana]

Thanks for your kind words

[@primerainfit]

this is so helpful. thank you so much.. please keep on uploading

[@SJW1857]

Really nice tutorial. Thank you very much. Now I can render with Arnold!

[@wanwang4013]

really useful!!!!! Thank you so much !!! looking forward more lessons

[@rble4433]

oh thank you been waiting for this!

[@eddiet5946]

Hi Yone, I have not heard back from you yet, but you do an excelent job in way and maner that you teach very detail oriented

[@jobinjohnson4433]

great tutorial. looking forward for more

[@adilshingre5943]

sir i have made a game level in maya 2017 but in arnold render is not showing

[@muskansinghania6422]

This was amazing, video thank you for helping me improve my shaders light in arnold sir

[@manuelconner7492]

Thanks a lot for that great tutorials. I saw a lot of paid tutorials, but no one are so clear explained as yours. But now i have a question. The Domelight to render out realistic light is great, but how can i turn it off in the viewport and will still render out? When i hide it in the outliner, it will not render.

[@ofabiomarques]

Você é o melhor! Thanks a lot!

[@byeperry]

Thank you for your videos. They've been great so far and I'm just starting to learn some things in Maya and with your help I've already made some things since I started last week. :) Will you be making a tutorial on adding fog/atmosphere, ambient occlusion and global illumination to scenes with Arnold? Would love to see those as there aren't many tutorials on that topic with Maya 2017. Can't wait for next video! :) Cheers

[@yonesantana]

Hi byeperry, Thanks for watching and I'm really glad your taking the time to learn Maya. I will remember to add how to make fog and atmospherics when we get to lighting environments. Which is going to be really soon. I'm now going back to the "Maya cave" to figure out how to make it work in Arnold. Take care.

[@nenadzuljevic9717]

Thank you so much for this very useful tutorial :)

[@anthonqui]

really one of the best tutorial on arnold in terms of understanding the basics.thankss man really appreciate it :) btw, could u also do tutorials on Vray really hoping for it..thankss again

[@krishnatejabharadwaj2931]

Hey awesome tutorial sir. Can you do a tutorial on making your own custom wood texture. Thank you

[@sanketvaria9734]

i applied roughness map in roughness of specular. and it didn't worked. i tried turning on alpha is luminance and still didn't work.

[@KR_DAGOON]

Thanks for the good video.

[@sabrinaflipse7732]

thanks for the link :) and video. are there anymore places to get these pix? also does it slow down your computer? i loaded one of them and now my scene is taking forever to render and move objects.

[@kieferpaulson7668]

Amazing video, thank you. Been using Maya a few years now and finding a tutorial that is clearly and extensively covered is not easy. Especially on all this hot new 2017 stuff. Great job! Side note: Are there ways to create animated shaders/materials in arnold? If I wanted to create the effect of a paper towel touching ink, and seeing the ink bleed into and upwards through the paper towel... can that be accomplished in Maya? Thank you.

[@yonesantana]

Hi Kiefer, There should be a way of creating your desired effect. If you know how to create any type of animated shader the knowledge transfers directly into Arnold. You can create procedural maps like Ramp, noise,... and animate different properties in the Attribute editor by right clicking on the property and use "Set Key." You can also film elements in video and import them into maya as image sequences. You can have the diffuse channel have a texture that animates over time that you can make with a video camera or any other piece of software. I hope it helps, although I'm not an expert on animated shaders it should be possible to do.

[@902MediaUK]

Hey man, thanks for the great tutorials. Im kinda confident with my modeling in maya but not so much with texturing, shaders and so want to learn more on these. My question about texturing and shaders is, do I need to do UV mapping on an object that i want to use procedural shaders on without texturing in photoshop or other texturing software? Hope the question makes sense, your clarification on this will be very helpful. Thanks again.

[@nigelsmith7717]

great videos!!!

[@kietsatish]

hi...thanks for your video. can you make tutorial about leaf texturing in maya 2018 with ai shader?

[@47humza]

How to get a transport render from arnold

[@fonzoAhrak]

hi yone thanks on this great tutorial if the lighting from the hdr is not enuf do you recommend to integrate another arnold's light or boost up the hdr light to achieve the wanted fill?

[@yonesantana]

There are many ways to achieve this. The HDR image is a light with it's own exposure and intensity, increasing this will lighten your scene. At the cost of not being physically accurate. You can add additional lights as well if that is easier for you. The higher the resolution of the HDR the more precise the light is an it is easier to achieve a realistic look.

[@axleangle8562]

Your'e a good teacher. Thank you.

[@Xphy]

Hi , when i try to rendering with arnold (MAYA 2017) i got a watermark in the pictures , that because i haven't an active licence do you know how i crack arnold or something like that

[@axleangle8562]

Sorry, I don't know about cracks.

[@Xphy]

Ah Ok . Thanks really thanks for answer me

[@yonesantana]

Hi if you are rendering a sequence of images using Arnold in 2017 using Batch Render you will get a watermark on the images. However if you render using Render>Render Sequence you can render the whole image sequence without a water mark. I hope that helps

[@Xphy]

thank you very much ,i watched all of your videos , & i knew that but if we r going to render a lot 200 fram it's take a long time ... you re a good teacher really ,sorry for my bad Eng ,i'm a theoretical physics student thnk u again

[@alzajel1]

Thank you for the tutorial, amazing and lots of information, can you please make small video for Frosted Glass, not much people talk about it in Arnold, thank you very much

[@yonesantana]

Thanks for watching. Let me see what I can come up with.

[@alzajel1]

Great, I truly appreciate your effort to make these videos, thank you

[@MortaniusTaijou]

Thank you for the great tutorials, man! They're really on point. They're helping me get back into things, last version I was comfortable with was 2014 and it's been a pain in the ass getting back. I'm having a real problem that I can't seem to solve, and I have been all over KZbin, and still no solution. When I raise the refraction weight on the glass, it doesn't looks transparent it stays black. I don't know what to do, I really want to render with Arnold as the look it gives is so good with the right softness and all that good stuff, I don't want to render with Maya Software. Thank you kindly for your help, as well.

[@awwnawmang]

early in the video, was creating the aiSky shader necessary? my environment was visible immediately when i rendered due to the aiSkyDomeLightShape1 node having the Camera visibility set to value of 1.0.

[@MOVEFOUNDRY]

Love it.

[@cruiseschuldt4417]

awesome vid

[@KK-ji6ly]

Hi , You are awesome.. I have got a problem in Maya 2018 , under 'Arnold Area Light Attribute' I can't edit the the color temperature, unlike in Maya 2017. Any reason?

[@soschar2050]

Isn't polyshading a bad thing? I thought it was bad to give the same mesh multiple different shaders.

[@khalilnoor4997]

thanks . . plz videos for bump 2d 3d arnold render

[@yonesantana]

Hello, Thanks for watching. I hope to make some more videos on more subjects with Arnold in the new year

[@khalilnoor4997]

tanks . watch this video and plz plz plz explain for us how can make grid bump arnold

[@friedrichnietzsche883]

I cant render rain with arnold pls sm1 help me I ahve a portfolio and a deadline

[@jimmybui4352]

Thanks for great tutorial. Really like your nice voice and your explanation. Can you make a tutorial for human skin shader Arnold please? Thanks very much

[@madeinsilence5670]

master ,I wanne know HDR link,I can't find,thanks

[@yonesantana]

The HDR images are in the show notes on the video page. The link is www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

[@ellychand2661]

Hello. I like your vid so much. Im using Maya 2017 too but I have a problem with the Hypershade as I click on it, below the Rendering there is no Arnold like yours for AI Standard. Do we have to download a different Arnold version? Big Thanks!

[@RMancuzzo]

Hello Yone, I was looking for a tutorial where i can do water drops in a cold beer in MAYA, but i didn't find it. Do you know something about it ? Thanks.

[@Zedorek]

any idea why my subsurface is disabled? it is there but I can't click on anything. BTW nice video

[@simplifiedmaya6591]

excuse me !!!! when I made it raw in render , it became darker, not the same of Arnold render view

[@avinashappu9951]

THank you

[@ThePopLyrics]

what keyboard shortcut did you use to select multiple faces on only one side of the object?

[@pamarchaw9451]

Hey Yone! Very useful tutorial, I just wanted to ask, I am doing a glass with water inside, and when I render it still appears blackish. I turned up the refraction in the ray trace tab in the arnold settings to 10, but its still black. How can I fix that? (I used the light settings as yours)

[@k-vandan]

select model -> go to attribute editor -> find arnold -> uncheck opaque

[@TheGameSeekers]

no toon shader in Arnold yet?

[@yonesantana]

Let me look into that.

[@alphaillusion4541]

Great

[@adnanekaboun6105]

merci

[@yonesantana]

Thanks

[@ellychand2661]

Hello. Im using Maya 2017 student version, do we have to buy Arnold? Can you please respond it. Thank you

[@yonesantana]

Hi Elly, Arnold is included in maya 2017. Sometimes the plugin doesn't load when maya loads go to Windows> settings/preferences> Plugin Manager Check that your MtoA pluging is loaded by checking both tick boxes. I hope that helps

[@Jashanrangpuri]

I need your help , I have heard mental Ray is better but it seems that AutoDesk is gradually moving to Arnold , could you suggest me which should I use for my personal work , keeping in mind which would be easier

[@yonesantana]

Hello Jashan, It really depends on the version of maya you have available and what system you like using. I can't really say which is the "best." However Arnold is the default renderer for Maya since 2017. Mental Ray and V-ray are other options but it is more a preference of what you like using. I find Arnold quite easy to work with and gives me some great options for creating realistic lighting and shading. I've found it a lot easier to teach beginners with thanks to the interactive render view.

[@Jashanrangpuri]

Thanks , I have decided to stick with Arnold , and download mental Ray or v Ray plugin if they have any personal demand

[@BusterKingSyros]

What you really want is Redshift. It is a GPU renderer that is way faster then either Mental Ray or Arnold.

[@grahamhiggins1816]

Arnold looks good, but their set-up seems strange. Using Spec - as reflection controls doesn't really make sense to me.

[@lululavilaine2513]

the shadow of the bottle is not cool. no caustics on the floor.

[@chrisg4433]

Your terminology could be a little confusing to others. Referring to a "Glass texture" rather than "Glass Shader or Glass Material". -Great vid

[@yonesantana]

Yeah that's the problem of being self-taught, my terminology is usually terrible. I try to be precise for you guys in the video but my mouth is faster than my mind.

[@Youngl3lood3]

My bottle didnt do the same

[@DemOnicxFEAR]

Your PC sounds like its about to take flight lol

[@omma911]

number of times "per se"" used wrong: 8 times ;)

[@devilsforkdigital1490]

It's really weird having your face in the corner of the frame. I thought you would hide this after your intro. I'd suggest removing this in future, it's just a distraction.

[@yonesantana]

I have always been told I can be very distracting

[@Paputsza]

Kind of wordy. Just way too wordy.

[@rble4433]

oh thank you been waiting for this!

[@yonesantana]

Thanks for your kind comments. More lighting and rendering goodness is on the way.