Introduction

The brief for this assignment saids we have to make a tutorial for use by a person working in the industry. So they can learn from it and be able to do anything covered in the tutorial. The tutorial needs to be clear and cover anything they want to know about the chosen subject.

The tutorial I am gonna write will be for Maya 2011, I will go over the following tasks:

• Lighting


• Shadows


• Rendering

I have picked lighting because I feel its a skill that is needed for most users when they are making they own scenes, if you can't see what you've made then there's not much point in rendering it out, and I also feel I am not too good with lighting. So I am using this assignment as a learning curve too.

For lightening I will go over how to do simple lightening, how different sorts of lights can be used and option controls for each. For shadows I will be giving a few ways of changing how your shadows look in Maya and how they render out and lastly for Rendering I will be showing different setting to make your lighting and shadows look correct.

I shall do some research into the subject myself. How can each be used, what levels of effect can be achieved and how important they are in the industry. After finding out my research I shall make a step by step guide, with screenshots, of how to do lighting, shadows and Rendering.