• About me

    Daniel Venditti

    Daniel Venditti

    Residence: Buenos Aires, Argentina

    3D Animator, vfx composer, teacher, writer and beta tester always linked to the fascinating world of 3D and visual effects.

  • Records

  • MentalCore

    Sunday, December 11th, 2011

    MentalCore functions as an alternative to the native integration between Mental Ray and Maya, the plugin offers many more features for creating shaders, lighting and rendering.

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    Mental Ray in Cinema 4D

    Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

    M4D is a supplement that allows you to use Mental Ray and iray into Cinema 4D.

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    Render passes

    Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

    Mike Burgoyne developed this script for 3ds Max that automates the creation of render passes, is designed to work with Mental Ray.

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    Render Optimizer

    Sunday, May 8th, 2011

    A great script to optimize thorsten hartmann Mental Ray and achieve the best time / quality.

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    Renderear leaves in Mental Ray and Vray

    Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

    Jeff Patton wrote this comprehensive tutorial that teaches how to simulate the translucency of the leaves of the trees with Mental Ray. He was inspired by Peter Gurie tutorial that teaches renderear Vray leaves.

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    Mental ray FAQ

    Thursday, March 24th, 2011

    Jeff Patton addresses the most frequently asked questions related to Mental Ray in the next post.

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    Good tutorial on Sub-Surface Scattering

    Sunday, July 18th, 2010

    Mr Bluesummers has published a very complete tutorial on SSS in Mental Ray.

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    Optimizing Mental Ray BSP tree

    Thursday, April 8th, 2010

    A deep and Jaime Cardoso updated article which explains in detail how the Binary Space Partition tree of Mental.

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