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Alter Your Lighting Information Post Render using Multilight in Maxwell Studio

Evan Schaible on Feb 22nd 2010 with 14 comments
This entry is part 6 of 14 in the Evan Schaible Session
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In this tutorial we will take a look at a few of the incredibly efficient features of Maxwell Studio, including Multilight, the revolutionary tool that allows you to alter lighting post render. We will also cover several terms that are often misunderstood, and a few other things that will allow you to get believable results from your renders.

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Tutorial Details

  • Software: Maxwell Studio/ Render Plugin Version 2
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Techniques Covered: Multilight, and various optimization tips
  • Completion Time: 1 hour (without modeling)
  • Software/ Hardware Requirements: Intel Core 2 Duo, OpenGL capable gfx card, 2GB RAM
  • Software: Maxwell Studio/ Render Plugin Version 2

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    Evan Schaible is a fluids/particle artist and technical director from Los Angeles. Being currently unemployed, he is looking for full time staff work, as well as honing his own skills by doing freelance technical direction, visual effects, and occasionally even motion graphics and visualization. He runs a training website that can be found at: www.ParticleFlow.net, and his blog can be found at: www.evanschaible.com.  

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    Discussion 14 Comments

    1. Wesley says:
      February 22, 2010 at 2:25 pm

      Thanks man, awesome tutorial. Is REALLY hard to find tutorials about Maxwell Render. Would you considerate do a tutorial about techniques of studio lighting, for product shots?

      Thanks.

      Reply
    2. greenice says:
      February 22, 2010 at 7:12 pm

      Tutorial of the year…..Top Man Evan very useful thanks so much.

      Reply
    3. lechatnoir says:
      February 23, 2010 at 8:37 am

      this tutorial is the shit.Thx a bunch mate. Gnomon and digital turos should produce a maxwell renderer tutorial. there aren’t any out there.Maxwell is a one of the finest renderer out there especially for previz work.

      Reply
    4. giri says:
      February 23, 2010 at 4:34 pm

      awesome tutorial. love with maxwell render 2. how can i get for free?… 700$ is freaking .even though it is worth it.

      Reply
    5. Mimo says:
      February 24, 2010 at 2:28 pm

      Evan,

      That was really educational, good job..
      Like the others, I do think there isnt a lot of Maxwell Tuts,
      What other resources would you recommend to learning a bit more..

      Thanks

      Reply
    6. Shafeek Hamza says:
      February 24, 2010 at 2:42 pm

      Great, Hi5,
      I really appreciate .
      I found my first tutorial for fundamental about maxwell from a chinese tutorial.

      thank you very much.
      i wish u will make more tutorials about the introduction,/ fundamentals too.

      thanx CG.Tutplus.
      :)

      Reply
    7. Diego says:
      March 2, 2010 at 5:18 am

      Awesome tutorial!

      I really look forward to your next Maxwell tutorial.

      Thanks a bunch!

      Reply
    8. Edion86 says:
      March 10, 2010 at 1:34 pm

      You say that rendering time was like 20 min or 2 hores? is doesn’t matter. Which computer do you have??? I need like 6 houres to reach SL20 or so… is there any clue to do it much faster??

      Thanks a lot for the tutorial, i didn’t know about ozone and turbidity… and I get surprised when you changed the material scene!! jajajaj

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    9. bocca says:
      March 11, 2010 at 4:20 am

      Nice work !! Thanx man !
      Can you do some tutorial about DOF, I can t find any
      Thanx again

      Reply
    10. AlexC says:
      March 11, 2010 at 3:36 pm

      Good fundamental tutorial. I was hoping to see an explanation for how you got that nice ‘glow’ effect from the streetlights. I’m trying to do renders of a theater stage and am really struggling to get the light to project far enough and have that glow…

      Any chance of covering that some time?

      ;)

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    11. Richard says:
      April 25, 2010 at 9:25 pm

      Hey thanks for the tut on Maxwell Evan.
      I’ve been trying to get my head around some of the basic concepts for ages.
      I got Maxwell as an add on for C4D about 4 months back and have found it a little intimidating getting a handle on it.
      I love the images it produces so I really want to get into it and your tut was much easier to follow than most.
      There aren’t all that many around outside of the Maxwell site so I’ll be hanging out for your next Maxwell tut.
      Thanks for the effort mate.
      Kind regards
      Rich

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    12. Ant says:
      May 11, 2010 at 10:16 am

      I downloaded Maxvell demo, but cannot find how to install in for 3ds Max (there is no plugin install in setup file).

      Or it’s only for full version?

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    13. Gabbo says:
      May 15, 2010 at 1:08 am

      Thanks Evan,
      My company has just purchursed Maxwell Render V2. This the first time I have found a tutorial which is to the point. I am just learning the program and found your tutorial to be very helpfull. Thanks for going to the effort in creating this video.

      Reply

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