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Jason Edwards Software: Maya 2016, ZBrush
One of the biggest challenges facing 3D artists today is dealing with high resolution meshes. Whether that's from a quick ZBrush sculpt, or from scanned 3D data. In this tutorial we address that issue. Jason Edwards takes us through the proc...
Nilla Nova Software: Maya 2016
This tutorial takes you through the modeling of Burt the Cartoon Dinosaur. We pay special attention to creating nice topology, with quads and an edge flow that you can easily rig and animate. So if you have some experience in Maya, and you're looking...
David James Software: Maya 2016, Mari 2.6v5
This tutorial starts with the creation of the UV map using new techniques in Maya 2016. With this UV workflow it's possible to UV a cartoon character in around 15 minutes. We also look at UV tiling to maximize texture space, and how to make our job o...
David James Software: Maya 2016
In this tutorial we create a robot in Maya. He has both organic components and hard surface elements in his design. This will allow us to show different modeling principles. We also take rigging and animation into consideration during the modelin...
Jason Edwards Software: Maya 2013 / ZBrush 4
This is our final set of lessons in the creature series by Jason Edwards. Here we'll take you through UV mapping of the creature using different techniques. We start by covering some simple UV mapping and rapidly move on to show you some of the ways ...
Jason Edwards Software: ZBrush 4R4
Drawing from his experience on recent feature films Lockout and John Carter, Senior Modeler Jay Edwards shares his production techniques for creating detailed surface anatomy in ZBrush. The workflow presented here can be applied to any type of ski...
Jason Edwards Software: Maya 2013
This tutorial shows you how to make a creature model in Maya, based on a concept sketch. We look at reference material to create a model with realistic anatomy that has weight to it. Topology is important, as the base mesh we take out of Maya is late...
Kurt Boutilier Software: ZBrush 4R4
Join Kurt in this project and learn how to generate a character bust in ZBrush with DynaMesh. Starting off with a quick run through of the UI, we dive into sculpting our character. We explain brushes and tools as we put them to practical use. We ...
Some free Maya courses to help you get started.
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.
