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Making a Giraffe in Maya

This tutorial explains the process of making a giraffe in Maya.The same principle can also be used in any other 3d application.

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Use Maya Transfer Maps Tools to Create Normal Maps

This tutorial served as an introduction on how to generate and apply Normal Maps in Maya 8.5 with "Transfer Maps" tools.

Rated: with 3467 hits  Added on: Apr 24, 2007

Realistic lighting with LDRI images

Get Realistic lighting in a scene through LDRI images

Rated: with 3346 hits  Added on: Apr 23, 2007

Using Projection Mapping in Maya

Projection mapping is feature that allows you to project 2d texture with object called placement node, so you don’t actually need to worry about UV’s on the objects.

Rated: with 1669 hits  Added on: Apr 22, 2007

Using Sun and Sky in Mental Ray

With Maya 8.5 Mental Ray got some new fancy options and modes. One of them is Sun and Sky system. I’m going to guide you through some of new features.

Rated: with 2241 hits  Added on: Apr 22, 2007

Rendering In Layers in Maya

Render layers, is one very powerful feature of Maya. And here we show you how to use it properly.

Rated: with 2252 hits  Added on: Apr 22, 2007

Creating a spaceship fleet using particle instance

Particles are one of greatest features in Maya. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to use particle instancer to create fleet of spaceships flying across the planes. Also I’m going to show you how to use events to crash spaceship.

Rated: with 2315 hits  Added on: Apr 22, 2007

Model a Rocket with particle trail

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create rocket using nurbs, and then animate its movement using path curve. Also I’ll show how to make simple smoke trail.

Rated: with 2789 hits  Added on: Apr 22, 2007

Using Bump Map to Sculpt Details

Explained the process of applying Bump Map in Maya (Applicable to any other 3D Applications.) to add rich details to a simple model.

Rated: with 3766 hits  Added on: Apr 20, 2007

Muscle Rigging

Maya tutorial to create muscles that will contract and expand a muscle a few frames before the limb moves. A simple technique to simulate weight & tension.

Rated: with 2004 hits  Added on: Apr 20, 2007

The Making of "Slow Decay" - Maya Tutorial

Explained the entire process of making a futuristic environment in Maya with 3D tools. Details include how to make the models, texture them, light them, rendering and final composition.

Rated: with 2396 hits  Added on: Apr 16, 2007

3D Short Production Process - The Making of Dragon Slayer

Dragonslayer is a 3D animated fantasy short film of 8 min. length. The Project was completed during a period of 24 months.

Rated: with 2208 hits  Added on: Apr 07, 2007

Tips for Managing 3D Animation Projects

Before you start a new 3d animation project. Good plan of project management will save you a lot of time. This article provides some good tips of that.

Rated: with 2328 hits  Added on: Apr 04, 2007

Model a Photorealistic Nut in Maya

This tutorial will go through the steps to create a photorealistic model of a nut. It requires that you have some basic modeling skills.

Rated: with 2048 hits  Added on: Apr 03, 2007

Chinese Dragons - Character Design Tutorial

To design a good character animation, an artist must have a good understanding of the composition of the work, and a strong ability to perceive.

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UV smoothing in Maya

UV layout techniques to solve UV distortion problems caused by polygon smoothing in Maya.

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Displacement Power in Reyes Mode-True Displacement

Examples of True Displacement with Pixar Renderman. But the same principles can be applied to other renders as well.

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--Maya-- How to model using some non-linear deformers

This is a short tutorial on how to tweak out simple geometry into really cool forms using a non-linear deformer. It sounds complex...but it really is just a tab inside of Maya and you pull some sliders around and experiment. It will make modeling some shapes 100% easier for anyone

Rated: with 2265 hits  Added on: Mar 31, 2007

--3Ds Max-- Modeling a car in 3ds max

Learn to model a professional car in this lesson

Rated: with 10396 hits  Added on: Mar 31, 2007

First subdivision polygon maya 8

Video tutorial of subdivision in polygons: maya v8 animation

Rated: with 1245 hits  Added on: Mar 29, 2007