In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple hydraulic arm. The hydraulic piston's length changes depending on the angle of the elbow, as you would...
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Maya Realistic Grass
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create realistic, animated 3d grass using Maya's Paint Effects.
Maya Palm Tree Modelling
This tutorial will teach you how to create a palm tree that animates dynamically when wind and gravity is applied to it. The tutorial will go through all the...
Maya Human Anatomy UV Coordinates Setup
This tutorial will teach you how to generate the UV layout for a human model. A correct, well laid out UV map is important because once it's made, and the te...
Maya Smooth Groups
Anyone who has used 3d Studio Max and then switched to Maya has always missed the use of Smoothing Groups. While Maya doesn't have Smoothing Groups, with a l...
Maya Faster Rendering and Composition
There are many ways for decreasing the render time of project, this tutorial will explain how I've textured, lit, rendered and composited my projects. This w...
Maya Melting Text
Hello every one! And welcome to the wonderful world of fluids, My name is Aziz Khan and I will be your guide through this tutorial and I hope you all will en...
Maya Dynamic Object Suspension Rig
I had had to make a rig for an underwater vehicle with some fly by wire parts coming off of it. We wanted to have control over them, and be able to position ...
Maya Hand Modelling
In this tutorial we will cover some of the methods I use to model a hand. A lot of the knowledge you need to do this is anatomy and observation. I'll cover s...
Maya Dome lighting
In this tutorial I will show you how to light up your scene using dome based lighting in Maya 8.0. This technique is very efficient render-wise, and will sav...
Maya DGS Shaders
When MentalRay users talk about 'physical correctness', in most of the cases the usage of DGS (diffuse, glossy, secular) shaders is discussed. Some people sa...
Maya Substitute Geometry
Substitute Geometry allows an artist to replace a rigged and animated Low ' Poly mesh with a final high resolution or mid resolution mesh. This technique all...
Maya Dynamic Piston
This tutorial will show you the steps for creating a piston rig which can be dynamically animated within the viewport. The final rig can be manipulated in re...
Maya Camera Shake
In this tutorial you will learn how to animate camera shaking effect without keyframing the camera.
Maya ZDepth and Grayscale Representation
This tutorial shows 3 different methods to create height and depth grayscale representations of a maya scene, which may be useful in many cases such as addin...