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Tennis Ball Modelling by Christer Bjorklund

This is a modeling tutorial using polygonal edgeloop-modeling and MJ Poly Tools to quickly achieve the look of a tennisball.

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Tennis Ball Modelling ...ading fur... by Christer Bjorklund

After writing the Tennisball Modeling tutorial I got requests on how to set up the fur to make it look more like a real tennisball. This is more of a Step by Step document on how I did it than a tutorial.

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Maya Modeling: Braid Modeling

In this tutorial I go through a technique for modeling a simple braid. Some tools used are EP Curve, extruding along a path, converting from NURBS to polygons and more…

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Maya Modeling: Twist Modeling

This tutorial goes through a modeling technique for making a twisted surface using polygonal modeling. It can be used for making the handle of a baseballbat, a screw and much more.

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Maya Modeling: Spiral Modeling

This tutorial goes through a quick and easy technique for achieving a spiral. Using Maya’s Curve tool to get the spiral you’ll do it in no time.

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Maya Modeling: Soccer Ball Modeling

This tutorial shows you how to model a polygonal soccer ball for smoothing in Maya using it’s new Soccer Ball primitive and the geosphere script from highend3d.com.

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Volumetric Shader through Mental Ray

Detailed tutorial by Silvia Palara explaining about the creating volumetric shader through mental ray

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Making 3D Maya Logo

In this tutorial we will make Maya logo using curves.

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Making a Wine Glass

This is a simple tutorial for beginners. Here we will use revolve tool to create a quick wine glass.

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3-Point Lighting in 3D

Learn how to make a classic 3-point light setup. I will use Cinema4D but any major 3D software package will do

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HDRI from scratch

Make HDRI images from scratch, without the aid of a camera. Photoshop CS2 is needed

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Maya Interface Basics Part - I

This tutorial is about the interface of the Maya. We will learn about different buttons, menu and hot keys available in the Maya interface. We will also look at layers, basic texturing and rendering.

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Maya Interface Basics Part - II

This tutorial is in continuation with part-I. Here we will explore more interface options, shortcuts and some tips.

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Text in Maya

In this tutorial we will learn about the text tool in Maya and we will also explore loft, planer, bevel, bevel plus tools.

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Making Mushrooms

In this tutorial we will make mushroom tree using NURBS, Extrude and Sculpt Geometry tool.

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Adding hair to existing hair systems

Adding a Ribbon to the Bow This lesson is part two of adding a bow to your hair system. We� will now explore how to add another hair simulation to your bow to create a ribbon that is driven by the braid. *Maya Hair Training Kit Preview In this lesson you will learn about: Adding a new stand of hair to an existing hair setup Driving geometry with hair Various hair attributes

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Material ID Technics (Thai)

Material ID Technics in 5 Chapters / swf streaming files.Made by Buddhichai P. : www.cad-com.net

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Follow Through and Overlapping Animation

Follow through and overlapping movement are the foundation of good animation. When characters or objects are moving parts of their body or surfaces need to continue moving after the motion has stopped or the objects will look too robotic. By adding a little bit of follow through the action of the shot becomes part of the character and not something added as an after thought. This lesson will cover how to Modify curves in the graph editor Adjust the timing of the animation so it is fit to cycle Create pre / post infinity cycles from the existing keyframes View infinity cycles of your animation Add overlapping animation to your scene

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Adding Anticipation to your Animations

Adding anticipation to animation adds a depth of believability and grounds the action of the scene. By adding anticipation to the shot, the animation gains a lot of depth by showing the audience what is about to happen. Below are the three things that you can add to your animations to create anticipation and believability for your shots: Telling the audienece what is about to happen. Showing the audience what happened Telling the audience what just happened This lesson will also show you how to adjust graph curves and set keyframes.

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Understanding Squash and Stretch

One of the key principles of animation is the use of Squash and Stretch to show weight and volume. This lesson will walk you through the process of using this technique to breathe life into our simple animation. Working with the timeline Using Autokey Working with squash attributes Using stretch to show movement

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