I'm sure you guys have all learned various techniques of creating a ball in the past, but in this beginner's tutorial we will learn another technique for mod...
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Maya Basic Lighting
This is hopefully a tutorial covering some basics of lighting in Maya, utilizing Mental Ray. I made this tutorial for someone in a forum and tried to replica...
Maya
This tutorial is intended to present a method of creating a next gen vehicle asset. The difficulty level is medium, so to better understand and use this tuto...
Maya Command Line Rendering
This tutorial is geared towards Maya users with little or no experience working in the Windows Shell. It was written to help students in a class I was in to ...
Maya Liquid Generation
Fluid dynamics is a branch of physics that uses mathematical equations to describe how things flow. In Fluid Effects, dynamicfluid effects simulate fluid mot...
Realistic Glass with Maya
For this demo we will utilize Maya's Blinn material, Ramp texture, and Sampler Info utility. We will also use Mental Ray's Dielectric Material and new Mia_ma...
Global Illumination with Mental Ray
Global Illumination, Final Gather and Caustics, these are the three individual elements that we commonly use as 3D artists to simulate the effects of bounced...
UV Sets in Maya
The purpose of this demo is to provide an educational framework for two common uses of the UV-Centric, UV linking, Relationship Editor.
UV Mapping Techniques and Workflow
This tutorial is designed to show most of the UV mapping techniques and tricks that I use day-in, day-out. This is more of a brief case study rather than a s...
Coca-Cola bottle
This tutorial is intended to show you how to make a Coca-Cola bottle using Maya. Although, you may think making a bottle is trivial, it is easy to overlook s...
VRay for Maya- Demonstration
My name is Dennis and I just got my hands on the VRay For Maya demo! A friend asked if I could explain the basics, so here is a very simple tutorial.
Simple Lava Lamp creation
This tutorial presents a step by step project for the modeling, shading, lighting and rendering of a realistic lava lamp. The steps should be straightforward...
Solar system in Maya
This tutorial will explore using Maya's particle system and instancer to simulate planets with several moons orbiting the Sun. With a few expressions you can...
Quick Start Series – Part 4
This quick start series contained the information and techniques that can't be found anywhere else and an equal split between workflows came up with by Dave ...
How to use GI and Final Gather
Learn how to use mental ray's Global Illumination and Final Gathering inside SOFTIMAGE|XSI for a photo-realistic render and learn industry tips and tricks on...