This lesson provides a brief introduction to rendering in Maya. In this lesson, you learn how to:

• Assign shading materials to surfaces in the scene.
• Edit the color of shading materials.
• Apply simple textures to shading materials.
• Render both a single image and a sequence of images for an animation.
• Use Interactive Photorealistic Rendering (IPR) to perform test renders of the scene.
• Edit the Render Settings attributes to change the quality of the final results of an image.
• View a sequence of rendered frames for an animation.