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David James Software: Maya 2020
This tutorial at its core is an introduction to modelling real-world objects. Having issues with your modelling? Get halfway through a model and find it's an unworkable mess? Can't add edge loops where you need them? Can't subdivide a mesh properly?...
David James Software: Maya 2016, Nuke 9
In this tutorial we take a look at render passes and layers in Maya 2016. We then move on to Nuke to composite both the still shot and the animation. Topics covered include how to create a volume fog layer in Maya, setting up a basic composite, maski...
David James Software: Maya 2016, Mari 2.6
In this tutorial we cover the texturing and materials for the main house. The bulk of the texturing happens in Mari where we create color, bump, spec, displacement and dirt maps. We also look at various techniques to generate baked maps to aid in the...
David James Software: Maya 2015
In this tutorial we take a look at creating the UV maps and the environment for the Spach-Alspaugh House. We cover many topics like UV mapping and baking of high resolution geometry into displacement. We also generate ambient occlusion maps to prepa...
David James Software: Maya 2015
In this tutorial we take a look at creating the Spach-Alspaugh House. We use a variety of modeling techniques with polygons, NURBS and curves to create this model. The project is based on architectural blueprints. After following this tutorial, you w...
David James Software: Maya 2015, Vray 3
In this tutorial we cover the shading, lighting and rendering of the bedroom scene in VRay. We look at how to create realistic materials, using the VRay standard, blend and two sided materials. We also cover lighting with physical sun and sky, as wel...
David James Software: Maya 2015
In this tutorial we cover the shading, lighting and rendering of the bedroom scene in Mental Ray. We take a look at a couple of different lighting scenarios, in this case daytime and nighttime. For the shading part we explore some complex materials i...
David James Software: Maya 2014 / Marvelous Designer
Join us as we take you through the creation of interiors in Maya and Marvelous Designer. This tutorial focuses on teaching a variety of techniques to create furniture. Our aim is not to teach you how to create one room or one piece of furniture, ...
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Although it might be intimidating for new users, the Bezier Curve Tool is one of the fastest ways to create complex curves in Maya. In our video, we start off by showing you how to use the Bezier Curve Tool to model a wine glass in Maya 2022. From...
In our new tutorial, we answer a question that often gets asked - how to cut round holes in Maya. The method we use works for cutting any type of hole in geometry. Maya's modeling tools chamfer vertex and circularize vertex get us off to a quick...
Bifrost is not only capable of simulating fluids but you can also use it for cloth. In this short tutorial, we show you how to drape a cloth over a table in Maya. This will get you used to the node chains and workflow of creating cloth within...
Continuing the modelling which can be found here We look at some techniques to quickly UV an object in Maya. Scene file can be found
A tutorial on basic poly modelling in Maya 2020. This is a continuation of our getting started with Maya series and contains the information you need to make your first model in Maya. The reference image I used can be found
Continuing our getting started with Maya series we're going to walk you through the principles of UV mapping. If you've never done any UV mapping before this would be a good place to start.
