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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 2014
This project takes you through creating realistic outdoor environments in Maya. If you've been relying on third party applications to create your environments, this tutorial will show you how you can do it within Maya. We look at making different typ...
Jason Edwards Software: Maya 2013
Jason Edwards takes us through the process of UV mapping in Maya. We start with a simple sphere and then work through a human hand and a human head, before we finish off with a cylinder. This tutorial will help you speed up your UV workflow. All fou...
David James Software: Maya 2014
The goal of this tutorial is not to teach you how to light up one scene, but it's to get you comfortable working with mental ray for exterior arch-viz. We use a simple model so we can focus our efforts on techniques that you can reuse in your own...
David James Software: Maya 2013 / Nuke
If you find yourself rendering over and over again for hours at a time, this is the tutorial for you. In this project we'll attempt to demystify mental rays render pass system. We pay special attention to the mia_material_x and it's outputs. We ...
Adam Redford Software: MARI 1.5 / Photoshop
Learn how to quickly create texture projections in MARI with this project. We'll be demonstrating the entire procedure, starting from the raw camera images. We then take you through the process used to create diffuse, bump, roughness and reflection ...
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...
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.
