Article Focus: In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Alvaro Castaneda, we'll create a very nice looking effect in maya, a Half tone effect, like print. This will show that maya has a lot of power to create really cool looks for any kind of project.
I'm trying to help you get comfortable using the hypershade here and show you that you can get ANY kind of effect for your renderings, from realistic to very surreal stuff, maya can be very powerful in you just use the right nodes, I know guys that instead of writing expressions for their rigs, they do all the logic with nodes inside the hypershade.