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Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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Animating a train on a path

Hello Typically my work revolves around modeling but I'm trying out a new project just for fun and I wanted to toss this question out to...

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by lauris47

01-01-2015|02:54 PM

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How can we do uninterrupted loops? (Continuous animation without slowdown)

Hello. I made some animations. but when I play them, they are starting slowly and fast on middle and they slow down at the and. This is problem for...

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by ozelgoktug

26-12-2014|09:44 PM

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Blendshape problem

Hi Everybody, As an ex Softimage user trying to be comfortable within Maya, I came across into a strange problem that I think it is related to the...

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by gaboraa

15-12-2014|03:24 PM

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Animation shifts on X axis!!!

Hi Everybody, First of all, I'm quite new to modelling and animation but already watched tons of tutorials :) I modeled a Mechwarrior and animated...

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by longliveboy

11-12-2014|05:54 PM

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FK <=> IK Switch

Ok, I have a rig that is almost done. I'm learning by Carlo Sansonetti tutorial. I have FK/IK switch feature in my rig that is working fine. But...

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by zzz7net

10-12-2014|03:20 AM

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Maya 2015 Infinity Animation Bug

So i tried creating a simple animation of a cube and then having it rotate for infinite. However in Maya 2015 this doesnt work. The infinity curve...

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by ColdZer0

09-12-2014|01:41 AM

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Rigging head to rigged body?

Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to put rig head into the rigged body? Please need some basic help, how to unrig joints. Digital tutors...

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by kapow1

02-12-2014|06:27 AM

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Have controls control each other without cycle?

I saw this video on youtube where there's a chain in IK mode, with parented controls that in turn control a group above the IK control. This lets you...

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by Neo conker

02-12-2014|04:04 AM

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How to duplicate a rig properly

Hello everyone, I am trying to duplicate a rigged character in my scene, but I see that the duplicated body is not binded to the duplicated...

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by Cath

29-11-2014|01:41 PM

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Using curve to control a joint

First sorry for my terrible English I assign some curve to my model joints and create a exact hierarchy in outliner. It's worked perfectly but after...

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by hossein361224

24-11-2014|06:54 PM

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Batch rendering animations to sprites from cardinal directions

I'm working on a sprite-based project and have a few hundred Maya files, each containing a short character animation. What I need is an easy way...

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by bloatse

12-11-2014|03:19 AM

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Switching an Objects Parent via Driven Keys

Hallo, I have a rig built of 2 meshes. One is the main mesh of the creature and the other is a neck frill (activated by a blend shape) similar to...

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by Jakob1105

10-11-2014|03:22 AM

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cluster deformer problem (normal flipped)

I am trying to simulate paper folding using cluster deformer. It is a simple setup. At first I applied a diagonal fold to my mesh with less than...

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by muonium

07-11-2014|05:46 PM

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change weight using rotate

hi everyone i want to change parent constraint weight when for example rotate x change from negative to positive and i want change weight from 0 to...

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by tx512

25-10-2014|07:18 PM

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Blend Shapes and Skeleton Rigs

Hi, I've got a question that I'm hoping there's a simple answer to. Lets say for the sake of argument that I'm building a Dilophosaurus model...

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by Jakob1105

23-10-2014|05:45 PM

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Bend only a part of object (tail)

Hello, I have made a rig for a object, for over a half of object. I used FK as it is in that tutorial: Creating an FK Tail Rig in Maya on Vimeo...

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by BAD COMMAND

03-10-2014|05:22 PM

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2 if statements in 1

How can I do this through nodes or an expression? This is for a rig. If "x" is equal to or greater then y and if "z" is equal to or greater then...

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by stwert

24-09-2014|04:02 PM

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IK handle "smooth" rotation

So I want to achieve the same effect as this dude has achieved with his joints: http://i59.tinypic.com/1408ygo.png I realised from messing around...

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by Skalman

22-09-2014|08:40 PM

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Issues with Order of Deformation and Skinning

So I recently offered to help a fellow student with his senior film rig and I've been facing issues with previous work which was done on the file....

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by thebooface

07-09-2014|10:47 PM

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Animated sweep and rendering the construction

Hi Folks A long time we see. I am trying to animate an "animated sweep", meaning, I would like the source of my object be rendered frame by frame...

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by fransua

25-08-2014|11:34 AM

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Rig help needed!

Hello all, I have run into a problem that I cannot seem to fix. I am working with a rig and model created before I started this job so it has...

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by NextDesign

19-08-2014|07:54 PM

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Maya '14: Exporting a deformation to FBX

I know that the only deformers that Maya can seamlessly export to FBX are skinclusters (from traditional joint binding) and blendshapes. Apparently,...

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by AviKohl3D

18-08-2014|10:18 PM

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Rig/Bone Edit Amount

So ive got this rig that i created it for a full human a while ago. However instead of redoing the rig and skinning with the mesh, how can i delete...

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by KHM3dia

18-08-2014|03:36 PM

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2 Joint groups for same object

Ok, so i have finished my joint-setup, and im happy with it. Now i noticed there's no way that i can move this. as you can see in my images this is...

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by Skalman

13-08-2014|12:05 AM

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Skeleton structure

Hi ! I actually work animations for a little game. I bought on unity assets store a package (props animations) with multiples animations in FBX...

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by Uggy

11-08-2014|09:31 AM