I am pleased to announce that mental ray and 3ds Max Design training is now available from me for individuals and groups, as either live in-person training at your facility or via the excellent Go To Training online service.

In the standard training I will lead you on three days of intensive training on the use of 3ds Max Design and mental ray (mr) in a production environment, with a focus on understanding the essential mr settings, reducing render time and improving performance and quality of your rendered images.  

The classes are completely customizable to fit your needs for content and number of hours, and with the online Go To Training the training sessions can be performed in two-hour increments over many days.

Some of the key concepts I cover are:

* General 3ds Max Design and mental ray settings including the use of Gamma for what-you-see-is-what-you-get renderings, Antialiasing and filtering, and render quality settings.

* Understanding material settings, including the Arch and Design material, the new Autodesk Materials, and the new Slate Material Editor

* Addressing common material  quality issues and methods to improve material rendering performance

* Understanding light and shadow options and settings

* How to improve the quality of shadows and optimize light calculation time

* Understanding the use of light and exposure control settings

* An in-depth look at mental ray setting and how they affect memory, quality and speed

* Examine methods for optimizing render time with multiple computers including distributed and network rendering techniques.

* Cover Effective methods for rendering large images and animations and using analysis tools within mental ray to optimize your render.

* In the most extensive part of the training I take an In-depth look at indirect illumination using Final Gather, Global Illumination, Importons,  Irradiance Particles and more, and methods for getting the best quality lighting solution with the shortest render time.

* Last but not least I cover using 3ds Max Design and mental ray with Revit and Inventor models, including using the Exposure lighting analysis tools, creating product environments, and compositing images.

Attendees get exclusive access to a private class forum at www.mastering-mentalray.com and can have their own scenes analyzed and the results critiqued. Attendees also have access to bonus videos and exclusive demo and sample scenes.

This is a unique opportunity for you to work directly with me to take you through the intricacies of mental ray.  Kick-start your mental ray knowledge, get up-to-speed quickly and maximize your learning by training with me, Jennifer O'Connor,  with Mastering mental ray!

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