From the course: Rhino and V-Ray: Rendering
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What you should know before watching this course
From the course: Rhino and V-Ray: Rendering
What you should know before watching this course
Compared to most other software, 3-D programs are one of the most time consuming to learn and then you have the technical challenges of rendering on top of it. Fortunately Viewer has a lot of great features that will help you get nice results very quickly. If you are still stressing here are a few tips that may shorten your learning curve and reduce your fears. First you should be familiar with Rhino. The reason is the entire course is focused on rendering with V-Ray inside of Rhino. Second photography skills can be very helpful. V-Ray uses a lot of real world equivalents to leverage knowledge of cameras. We'll also include discussions of lighting, backdrops and scene arrangement. Third and finally is patience. Patience is critical to get really good at rendering you need to do a lot of testing. Even though I will show you how to speed things up, there is no substitute for experimentation. But with a patient attitude, it can actually be a lot of fun. Now, to get you guys in the mood…
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