Maxwell Render

We are currently working on improving the available training resources for Maxwell Render and part of this plan is to provide a way for expert Maxwell users to offer hands-on training courses for interested parties. The idea is the trainers themselves organize the courses, set their own schedules, rates, and locations where they could offer the training. These would be courses offered to companies, or setting up Maxwell classes for a small number of people at a time. We have a few users who are interested in providing such hands-on training and who have experience teaching other applications. These users would be chosen by NL after evaluating their qualifications. We would like to get some feedback about this type of training, see what the interest is. All registered users can read and post in this section, even demo users.

As an example: I have written a 3 day intensive Maxwell course plan ment for classes of max 10 people. I can present the course plan here on the forum and see in what city the majority of people would be interested to attend. After the locale is chosen I would set a date and people sign up for it. It doesn't really have to be more complicated than that, but we would appreciate any thoughts and opinions

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I think it might be easier on the teachers and better for the students if you (Next Limit) had a standard course outline to follow, like the Autodesk Training Courses. Maybe a beginner and advanced course. I think this kind of organization would really spur on some interest!

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We are working on that as well - it will be more like a guide about what a course must cover and in which order. But it won't be too rigid as each teacher has his/her own style and may want to do 2 day or 4 day or 7 day courses etc.

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cool idea Mihai...

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I'm all for this. I have used Maxwell for a year or so but to be honest never had the time to get to grips with it properly.

I would really like to see a thorough series of video tutorials covering studio and materials and lighting. Maxwell is great and I look at the visuals here with envy but as with many things I revert to what I know simply because there is nowhere to get training in the UK - hence why the video format works.

Take a good look at the DVD offerings from Autodesk for Maya and StudioTools, the 3D Fluff products for Cinema4D, SolidProfessor for SolidWorks, anything from Lynda.com for Adobe. DVD is the way to go. If there were quality, hi res tutorials on the above for £100 each I would buy them today.

Training courses are OK but they cost too much to attend in terms of time out the office and production down time. If the course costs £300 each a day (which is average to low here), and it takes place in London say, that is all day out for me plus travel. So the actual cost is nearer £1000 a day.

Its a good idea!

I've already visited 2 different companys in Stockholm to hold Beginners-maxwell courses. Its great for people who wants to start using the software, and its also very good for me, You learn a lot when you teach.

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Any idea when these tutorials would be released...this is ESENTIAL guys. Even for expert users, we always find something to do better in Maxwell. Great Idea. Thanks in advance.

I have lust downloaded the demo today and would like to attand a course. Are there any courses in the UK or any experienced users willing to show me the the basics for a fee?

I currently design products in SolidWorks and would like to use Maxwell for product visualisations.

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There are also private teachers you can hire, we are called Maxwell Xperts. You can find us here http://think.maxwellrender.com/xpertsmap.php and then you can pick one you like and that can help teaching you what you would like to know.

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Hi all, (I'm a newbie on this forum.)

I'm an experienced Lightwave & Sketchup user and as yet I'm still using the evaluation version of Maxwell.

I would really welcome some in depth tutorials either online, DVD or a class to attend. Reading the manual just sends me to sleep.

While I'm still deciding on which renderer to buy, I would really like a few quick start videos. (Youtube would do)
I've seen the ones on the Maxwell site but they're more like a demo than a tutorial.

I haven't seen any tutorials for Maxwell or its competitors (Indigo, Fryrender etc) The one that gets me up and running first gets my money.

I don't have time to read through pages of 'small talk' in a written tutorial . . . can someone just show me !!

Thanks

(got a little agitated towards the end there. Sorry. )

There are a great group of Maxwell "Xperts" available to give one-on-one hands-on training. Check them out here, and give them a shout:
http://think.maxwellrender.com/xpertsmap.php

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Thanks Brian. I have got in touch with the only xpert in my country and hopefully we can sort something out.

It's strange that Maxwell costs more to buy than the animation software I'm using it with and yet there is no real training support for it.
I can buy DVD's, online courses or attend a class for Lightwave (the cheaper of the two packages) and nothing for Maxwell.
Even Sketchup has loads of Youtube tutorials.

Come on someone there's a hole in the market here !!

Take a look at the First Steps on think.maxwellrender.com

http://think.maxwellrender.com/first10steps.php

There are some videos there as well about material/Maxwell/Studio.

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I do video tutorials for other software packages -- I recently had a comprehensive course released on Sketchup for VTC and have had my eye on Maxwell for quite some time... I'm waiting for the new Sketchup plugin to finally buy but I have put to good use every demo I have downloaded and I am very interested in teaching a Maxwell video training course for Sketchup users once the new plugin becomes available.

http://www.vtc.com/products/Google-SketchUp-Tutorials.htm

Best,
Jason.

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That looks great Jason.

I have bought from VTC before and I'm sure I'll buy again.

What I need to get my head around is the differences between Lightwave and Maxwell. (Sketchup I can cope with as there aren't many render options in Sketchup. It would all be down to Maxwell)

I'm obviously set in my ways with Lightwave and I need to understand what I can and can't use. Lighting being a big difference it seems.
I design stage sets with a lot of lights and the lighting feature in Lightwave now seems redundant as I can't use Lightwaves lights with Maxwell.

I feel I may now be moving off the subject matter for this section of the forum, but I would welcome any tutorials for either Sketchup or Lightwave with Maxwell.

Please let me know if you make this kind of video.

I have found a useful online video, that doesn't go into enough detail for me, but 3D Max/Maxwell beginers may find useful
http://cg.tutsplus.com/articles/news/an ... ll-studio/

Gavin

PS. Thanks Mihai for the video links in 'Think' website. These are more like demos though. What I'm looking for is a video made by a lightwave user for Lightwave users explaining how Maxwell integrates and what can and can't be be done. Then shows you how you now do it.