{"id":92,"date":"2014-03-14T18:46:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tojek.com\/vfx\/?p=92"},"modified":"2015-11-07T18:55:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:55:48","slug":"maya-and-mental-ray-hdr-lighting-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tojek.com\/vfx\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Maya and Mental Ray HDR Lighting tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow and someway my set of Maya and Mental Ray classes have shown up online at the Community Video section of the beloved Internet Archive dot org. \u00a0This is a great resource for all things web and education, so I will post details here so people can enjoy. \u00a0The videos are broken into roughly 10 minute lessons, and as a whole they cover Linear Color Workflow, Creating Panoramic HDR&#8217;s for IBL, and using 32-bit EXR images for lighting. \u00a0They offer the videos in a variety of formats for download and or streaming, so have at it for free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/JonTojek\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/JonTojek<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-92 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tojek.com\/vfx\/?attachment_id=133'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tojek.com\/vfx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/06_sIBL_v01-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tojek.com\/vfx\/?attachment_id=134'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tojek.com\/vfx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/09_chair_hallway_dino-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure 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