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Animation Mentor or other animation schools

Any one know anything about Animation Mentor? Are the courses good? Is it a reputable school? Any other suggestions on animation schools?

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by MamoruK

08-02-2012|12:59 AM

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How To Make New Surfaces

My imported models to Maya only have one surface and I require to resurface them and add material in Maya but am unable to find a easy way to do...

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by Gunsentry

07-02-2012|09:35 PM

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Extrude Along a Curve

Hi Im trying to create a water slide and I was experimenting on how to do it through extruding the edges of a cylinder along a curve. These are my...

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by nov2011

07-02-2012|05:26 PM

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hardest part | Page: 1 2

this is an opinion for anyone n00bie or vet in maya but what do you feel is the hardest part of making a character (or anything), start to finish....

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by murambi

07-02-2012|12:11 PM

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Right mouse button stopped working...

Any reason why my right mouse button no longer seems to work in maya? I have no idea what's happened, as far as I'm aware I just saved as usual last...

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by sambh

07-02-2012|09:44 AM

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How to combine smoothed polygons with hard/unsmoothed polygons?

Please, help me! I need this one. If you're confused and didn't understand anything, I just wanna ask how to combine smoothed polygons with a normal...

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by bullet1968

07-02-2012|01:50 AM

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Just Getting Started

I'm just starting to learn to use Maya, i've already picked up a fair bit from playing around. I know i've made some errors and I can't seem to find...

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by bullet1968

07-02-2012|01:42 AM

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Should i learn Nubrs and SubD for VFX?

I am really confused of this thing. Should i use Nurbs, if i want to work for VFX industry? My other question is, is it used in VFX at all? I see...

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by cgisoul

06-02-2012|06:12 AM

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Modeling without image planes

I am really interested in this thing, and i want to learn how do i do it. It is possible modelers to model something without putting image planes in...

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by Perfecto

05-02-2012|10:43 PM

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Mental Ray Not available

Been using Mray doing a bunch of tutorials, and opened up a set of project files and kep crashing they removed the paint effects models in...

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by cgisoul

05-02-2012|05:57 PM

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Weird Vertex Converge At Grid Upon Painting Weights

Hello everyone, I hope someone can help me with this. Here's the thing. I have an assignment to do a facial rig by next week. The problem is...

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by daverave

05-02-2012|02:39 PM

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Beach

Just wondering... how would one go about making a beach sunset? I figure there'd be a lot of lighting work involved but I'm not sure what sort of...

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by Chirone

05-02-2012|01:31 AM

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Maya Version Used in Tutorials

Hi guys, just wondering if anyone knows what versions of maya are used in the following tutorials, im using 2012 and dont wanna struggle to find...

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by Nilla

04-02-2012|11:06 AM

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Been a while. Post your desktop | Page: 1 2 3 4

Here is mine to get the ball rolling. Nothing to exciting :D

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by johnberqo

04-02-2012|06:43 AM

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MR ambient occlusion problem

I set up an ambient occlusion for mental ray render: I picked mia_material_x_passes. Added mib_amb_occlusion nod to it on default settings, and...

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by nov2011

03-02-2012|06:44 PM

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unused materials

Hi, i have alot of unused materials in my scene(lambert,phong) and i am wondering if these materials will actually cause any lag or slowness in...

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by caligraphics

03-02-2012|01:05 PM

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Fillet command

It didnt occur to me until just then...and Im probably wasting my time.....is there a 'fillet' command anywhere in Maya. Extruding edges CLOSE enough...

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by bullet1968

03-02-2012|12:27 AM

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rar files

was just wondering if anyone know how to open .rar files in maya?

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by Holwerda Company

02-02-2012|02:32 PM

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targa transparency

Anyone knows how to render targa that has a transparent blackground like a png? thanks

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by choo

02-02-2012|10:52 AM

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fixing deformations

:ninja:found this little vid that can help you guys in rigging in the future :) How to correct bad deformations in Maya - YouTube

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by MamoruK

02-02-2012|10:52 AM

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Creating Games with Unity and Maya: How to Develop Fun and Marketable 3D Games

Ordered this book few days ago. For the reviews and comments from other people, this book is going to be a blast! You can download the final game...

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by cgisoul

02-02-2012|02:51 AM

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Education in animation

This is a question for those in the actualy industry and have been so for a while (maybe 5+ years). I'm in school right now working on a bachelors in...

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by MamoruK

01-02-2012|08:05 PM

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undead Labs zombie survival MMO Class3

if you guys haven't heard about it yet check it out. Will be released on XBLA. http://undeadlabs.com/

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by MamoruK

01-02-2012|06:04 PM