Maya 2015 PHYSICAL SUN AND SKY tutorial | lighting made easy

This Maya tutorial shows you everything you need to know about Physical Sun and Sky - it's one of the easiest ways to create lighting that makes your scenes look great in Maya. And, oh yeah, it renders really fast too!

If you are looking to learn how to light in Maya and Mental Ray, this is a great place to start, especially for beginners. Maya and MR can be frustrating to use - Physical Sun and Sky is one of the rare tools that starts providing good looking stuff right out of the gate!

This Maya tutorial covers creating Physical Sun and Sky, adjusting Simple Exposure nodes, adjusting light direction and intensity, and changing the time of day.

[me_am_zac]

This was so great!!
So many tutorials are so slow and the voice over just mumbles but not this one.
I was actually interested in this one. It didn't feel like a chore listening to it.

Thank you, James, good work.

[naniah]

cool thank you. I'm always lost when learning lighting and other stuff in Maya in class, your tutorial really help me a lot, i appreciate it.

[ananyabanerjeedan]

I am joined in a production as a lighting artist.And I use Physical sun and sky many times.This tutorial is too good and I think your speech are very clear to understand.I wish to get more tutorial on production based lighting and new technique for lighting also.

[ReallyRedPanda]

Thank you so much for the clear and super helpful tutorial, really appreciate it!

[richmclean]

The pacing and content of your training is excellent.   Thank you for sharing your expertise.

[tyrantlizardking]

This sort of tutorial is extremely helpful, thanks for taking the time to explain everything so well!

[jchongco]

Men even with your models it already looks so good! It kindah gives me more motivation to continue practicing maya thank you very much :D

[letsplaygames]

The best physical sun tutorial i've ever seen
Thanks

[remyvanschoonwinkel]

Thank you so much! Been working with Maya for a year as a student and I never worked out how to control the shader with physical sun and sky.

[DaneBryantFrazier]

You explain everything so well. Commented before and figured I'd comment again. Thanks for the help!

[WidgetZorg]

Quick, precise and useful. Thanks a lot.

[big_matt]

Very helpful and informative, keep up the good work!

[matrizx-diseno-grafico]

EXCELENTE TUTORIAL, ME GUSTÓ MUCHÍSIMO, FELICITACIONES !!!

[sourabhkumawat]

Nice tutorial sir...its easy to understand. .I m jus beginner in maya..I like your work..this idol for me...

[brucet]

Many thanks James! I was pulling my hair out trying to figure how to make my scene less washed out.

[honshu]

Seriously very Helpful, u explained all the Attributes in a very Easy way....tht finds me really confusing all the Time

[FerLonguini]

Thank you sooo much for this! It saved my life <3

[thebigv]

Thank you! Very useful video I learned a lot.

[GUPTOSHILADITTO]

Thank you Mr. Taylor for this tutorial it was very helpful. I tried it and the results looked very good but I have one small problem is that if I want to add a background instead of using the default sky in this option from maya.

Thank you once again and have a good day.

[MHTutorialsD]

Subscribed, great tutorial. One question though.
I know I can add a lens flare to a point light etc but I saw a lens flare on the sun in the beginning of your video.
Can you tell me how you do that ?

Thanks,

Mike