The Gnomon Workshop - Cityscape Set Design, Volume 2: Texturing, Lighting & Rendering

The Gnomon Workshop - Cityscape Set Design, Volume 2: Texturing, Lighting & Rendering

https://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/workshops/cityscape-set-design-volume-1-modeling

Continuing on from Cityscape Set Design, Volume 1: Modeling by Visual Development Artist Tony Ianiro, this second volume focuses on texturing, lighting, and rendering, resulting in a professional-quality Photoshop composite using your rendered outputs. This workshop draws on over twenty years of Tony’s experience and bridges traditional 2D illustration techniques with modern 3D workflows. This comprehensive workshop begins with the transition from a grayscale 3D model to full color. Tony explores the distinctions between painting and texturing the model and educates on how to create a fully textured scene. He also instructs how to create a custom skybox using Photoshop and Materialize. From there, the tutorial moves into Maya, where Tony walks through shader creation and scene preparation for texturing.

Following a structured approach, Tony’s workshop ensures scenes are optimized for high-resolution rendering with full color, lighting, and textures using Arnold. The workshop covers complete scene texturing, lighting setup, fog integration, and camera placement within Maya. Artists will also learn how to clean and package 3D files, as well as how to render essential passes in Arnold.
To conclude the workshop, Tony demonstrates how to composite a professional Photoshop illustration. The goal with this workshop is to provide a vital resource for artists seeking to transition into 2D/3D Visual Development roles within the video game and animation industries.