Autodesk 3ds Max Lighting and Rendering Course

Architectural visualisation, product visuals, photorealism, stylistic or NPR (non photorealistic rendering) for still images and animated sequences.

Clients want to know what something will look like before spending money on commissioning interior designers and architects to make it. Equally, a designer or animator maybe asked to output a 3D animation in a particular aesthetic / graphic style.

3ds Max, the industry standard 3d software, allows interior designers, architectural visualisers and designers to achieve a photorealistic visualisation of interior and exterior environments, products or graphic animation.

Taught through a series of demonstrations and exercises, this practical course will teach you the core aspects of lighting and rendering to create architectural environments, interiors, and spaces in non photorealistic rendering.

Using a production standard rendering system you will learn how to globally illuminate and render these scenes to a high level of realism or graphic style while giving you an in depth knowledge of the relationship between 3D materials, lighting and rendering.

Course Outcomes:

By the end of this course you should be able to:

• Understand and use the different types of Lighting and Rendering systems available in the software
• Understand the requirements of developing a photorealistic visualisation of architectural environments, interiors and spaces
• Use a high end production standard rendering engine to globally illuminate spaces
• Render environments to a high level of realism
• Produce stylised graphic animation
• Output images for print and animation