In this free tip, Professor Tahl Niran walks you through setting up multipass renders in Maya. Not only does it show you how to use the built in varieties, it includes how to do your own custom Fresnel pass, which is not included in the presets which ship with Maya. Niran teaches the Shake courses here at fxphd, which use multipass compositing techniques to sell a shot.[fx_video src=”/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/freetip-mayapasses.mp4″ link=”/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/freetip-mayapasses.mp4″ width=”1152″ height=”720″]Maya: Render Passes[/fx_video]