In this 11 hour tutorial we take a look at creating realistic outdoor environments in Maya and mental ray. If you've been relying on third party applications to create your environments this tutorial will show you how you can do it within Maya.
Every element in the scene you see above is created in the tutorial entirely within Maya. We look at creating different types of trees, bushes, flowers and grasses. We also look at how the final scene itself was put together.
By then end of the tutorial you will have built up a large library of reusable assets for all your own outdoor scenes as well as a good working knowledge of paint effects.