Rendering the Wine Bottle

In this section, you’ll set up and render an animated camera to move over 25 frames of a wine bottle still life.

cd.eps

Set your current project to Lighting, and then load still_life_render_v01.mb from the Lighting project on the CD. You’ll adjust your render settings and some shader properties to make the wine bottle look more like glass.

Selecting Render Settings Options

Set your resolution and quality settings in the Render Settings window:

1. Open the Render Settings window, and select Maya Software. Click the Maya Software tab.

2. From the Quality drop-down list box, select Production Quality. This presets the appropriate ...

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