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Setting Up a Beauty Render
The image in Figure 8-23 is what we are going to be creating
in this section.
Figure 8-23: The final scene with lights and a nice Mental Ray render
In my industry it's fairly standard practice to create a beauty
render. This is a render where you've placed a camera and lit
the scene, object, or whatever you've created. I really suggest
doing this before showing anything you've worked on in
forums or to other artists. Make any wireframe screen grab or
anything else secondary to your beauty render. It's good to
show off a wireframe, but it's even better if you can show off a
good-looking render and the wireframe.
Let's start with the camera position. I created a camera in
the upper-right corner of the room by what I took to be the
front door. Only worry about placement and angle. Right-click
on one of the viewports that you're not using as much as the
others. Select Camera01 from the list. You're now seeing what
