Advice needed: Adding a "Showreel" quality polish to your animation scenes

Mark Madness

Hey guys, I was asked to take my animation scenes from Maya and instead of having a regular playblast to render it out with the kind of extra visual polish like you see in showreels such as the lighting and textures of a scene. What ways can I make my regular maya scene look better?

Brian "Panda" Choi

Render it with a proper renderer that's not Maya Software.

vRay, Rendermn, Unreal, Unity, etc.