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David James Software: Maya 2017
Building a full IK rig is a complicated process if you're new to rigging. This tutorial blends together several rigging techniques to create a feature rich rig, using HumanIK to do the heavy lifting. On top of this we create custom controls, letting...
David James Software: Maya 2015
In this tutorial we create a complex simulation using four of the main dynamics engines found in Maya. We start by shattering geometry, followed by simulations with Bullet physics. After our simulation finishes we cache it out using Maya's pipeline ...
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 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, ...
David James Software: Maya 2014 / Marvelous Designer
In this two hour tutorial we take a look at creating some very common cloth types for use in your interior scenes. We use Maya in this tutorial, but you will be able to follow along in any 3D package capable of handling the .obj format. We start b...
David James Software: Maya 2014 / Marvelous Designer
In this two hour tutorial we take a look at creating some very common cloth types for use in your interior scenes. We use Maya in this tutorial, but you will be able to follow along in any 3D package capable of handling the .obj format. We start b...
David James Software: Maya 2014
In this three hour long tutorial we look at using the fluid engine in Maya to create large scale explosions. We cover not only the basics of making the explosion, but we also take a look at ways to split the explosion up into its component parts. Thi...
David James Software: Maya 2011
In this tutorial we take you through creating explosions using Maya's fluid and nparticle systems. We cover managing multiple fluid systems mixed with multiple nparticle systems to create explosions. We also cover instancing geometry to particles...
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.
