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...
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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...
Maya Hydraulic
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...
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...