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Jason Edwards Software: Maya 2011
The final volume in our Surfing with the Alien series covers how to easily rig your humanoid characters for animation and bring them to life. In nine easy to follow chapters we look at topics such as joints, IK handles and facial blend shapes. In th...
David James Software: Maya 2011
In this project we take you through Maya's fluid dynamics system. We start off by exploring some uses for the 2D fluid container by creating an ink dissolve effect. From here we continue with creating smoke and fire in the form of flaming meteo...
David James Software: Matchmover 2011
This tutorial goes over how to integrate 3D objects into live footage. The first part covers some of the basics for camera tracking and how to navigate around the interface in MatchMover. We bring in some footage, get our scene set up and create...
David James Software: Realflow 5
This tutorial will get you started with RealFlow, so you can begin to design your own simulations. The first six parts cover the basics in RealFlow, and how to get started with simulating fluids. We look at the interface, creating particle emitter...
David James Software: Maya 2011
Welcome to this Simply Maya project on how to make it snow where we'll cover the start to finish process of creating an animation of snow using Maya’s particle dynamics system. Topics covered in this tutorial are; Particle Simulations in MayaC...
David James Software: Maya 2011
Welcome to this Simply Maya tutorial on making it rain where we'll cover the start to finish process of creating an animation of falling rain with ground splashes. This project is designed specifically to help you take your first steps in using Maya'...
David James Software: Maya 2011
In this training kit we create an animation of golden rings bouncing out of a falling wineglass. We start out in the first part using rigid body dynamics for object placement. This technique will save you time when simulating with many objects. W...
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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.
