Prelighting « Animations « Maya Tutorials

1. CGTalk - Prelighting Tutorial    forums.cgsociety.org

2. Maya Lighting Intro to global illumination gi - Tutorialvid    tutorialvid.com

3. Two Lighting Case Studies    www-viz.tamu.edu

4. Lighting flat objects    drone.org

(an application of normal maps and rayDiffuse)

5. Realistic lighting with LDRI images    free3dtutorials.com

For this tutorial you will need Maya with mentalray for scene setup and rendering, HDRI Shop with few hdri images to measure the light level and Photoshop to create the bitmaps for color scaling.