In this part of the tutorial we are going to be working on the Rims of the car. By using these techniques, anyone should be able to make any type of rim. I c...
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Maya Car Modelling using Nurbs part 3
In this part of the tutorial we are going to be working on the back bumper. At this point we should know how to use most of the tools and the concept of work...
Maya Car Modelling using Nurbs part 2
During this part of the car tutorial we will focus on the front bumper and adding all the details. To do this we will go over 5 tools: Offset Surface, Loft, ...
Maya Car Modelling using Nurbs part 1
This is a full tutorial of how to build a car. In the first tutorial you will learn to create the body of a car. The second and third tutorial will concentra...
Crowd
We will create the scene shown in the following image, there are 15 particles and three obstacles of various dimension. The locator on the right of the image...
Maya Dynamic Camera Setup
One of the biggest problems in doing any type of camera work on Maya is that the camera is always too clean and perfect. Thus creating a very cold camera. If...
Maya Phone Cord Animation Setup
This tutorial will go through the steps to create and rig a phone cord, that can then be animated.
Maya Photon Illumination of DGS Materials
DGS stands for Diffuse, Glossy, Secular. DGS materials are used to simulate materials with physical accuracy. It's the combination of these DGS materials wit...
Maya Animation Controls
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Bend Deformer and how to make an attribute depend on another to animate a plank being hit by a stone. You will...
Maya Driven Keys to create HandController
This tutorial will teach you how to make a controller for animating a hand using MEL. This will help you make complex animations that can easily be edited.
Maya Foot Setup
This tutorial will focus on creating a foot setup with a foot controller and a footRoll attribute that will be done using set driven key. I must stress the f...
Maya Modelling and Rigging a nut and bolt
This tutorial will go through the steps to create a photo realistic model of a nut. It requires that you have some basic modeling skills. There are a lot of ...
Maya Flash Photography Effect
This tutorial will teach you how to make your renders look like they are photographs, by adding a flash photography effect to the image.
Object Spreading
In this tutorial you will learn how to automate the placement of high number of objects. Multiple methods are covered.
Maya Diamon Caustics
Rendering a diamond as photo-realistically as possible is a 3D challenge. Light doesn't just bounce off an object; it enters it, bends, changes color, bounce...