There are many parts to maya hair dynamics and this tutorial covers the initial styling of it. In this tutorial I create the hair from pulling splines off a ...
Rendering / Compositing
Global Illumination basics
Currently, one of the best ways of achieving photo-realistic imagery is to render using Mental Ray for Maya. Mental Ray offers a Global Illumination and Fina...
Making of Beanpod Blooming
Wang Xiaoyu walks us through the creation of this piece going over tips for creating eyes and shaders
Maya Adding Fur to a Tennis ball
This tutorial will go through the process of creating fur for a tennis ball model.
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 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.
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
Irradiances Particles in Mental Ray
In this video, from Introduction to Rendering with mental ray in Autodesk Maya 2009, we will continue to become familiar with the new Irradiance Particles fe...
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...