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3D Character Rigging - The Arm

In this tutorial we look at how to make a arm rig. Both the FK and the IK, with a Switch between them.

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3D Character Rigging - The Spine

In this tutorial we look at how to setup the spine for a character. We will be using multiply/devide notes for that. But dont worry it is easy. We will be setting up: - Controllers - Constraints

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Creating Glass Shatter Effect using Maya nCloth

In this tutorial we will explore using Maya ncloth to create Glass Shattering Effect.

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Character Rigging - The Leg

This is the second tutorial in a series on how to make a character rig. In this tutorial we look into: - Controllers - IK Handles - Control Joints - Rubberhose

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Quick Tip: Floral Animation with Maya's Paint Effects

In today’s quicktip tutorial, Abed L. Ibrahim walks us through how to create impressive floral animations that grow gradually over time, using Maya Paint Effects. Let’s take a look!

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3D Character Rigging - Setting Up The Skeleton

This is the first look into character rigging. Rigging is such a wide area, so these tutorials are going to be uploaded in parts. The first part is: - Setting up the skeleton. The next tutorial will be comming soon. In the next tutorial we will be looking at how to setup the leg.

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Things to add and avoid in 3d projects

This is a list of things to add or avoid in a 3d project. Its sole purpose is to help you understand the process of doing 3d work effectively, with speed and to stay motivated during the process . What pushed me to write article is the non ending repetition from new 3d students and fellows.

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Optimize 3d projects to be fast

This tutorial intended for Intermediate users of Autodesk Maya, on how to cut down rendering and working time on projects as well as to avoid irritation due to lengthy or time consuming techniques.

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How to - Maya - add object to lattice

The following is a quick and easy tutorial that shows you how to add objects to a lattice in Maya. It is especially useful if you want to position a lattice in a particular way before it affects geometry.

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Beautiful Lebanese Singer, Pianist, Music Arranger and Composer Karina Eid

Karina Eid was born in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, and raised between Gambia, and Beirut. Between the years 1990 and 1997, Ka

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HDR creation for CG lighting

A full description on how to create an HDR image from scratch which can then be used to light a CG model

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Fiix broken render settings window

Now and again one of the numerous Maya bugs stops you been able to view the render settings window. You can open it up but there is no information there, preventing you from changing any render settings. A quick way to fix this is to do the following –

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Maya - remove namespace

Ever find it annoying when you’re using Maya, you import some objects and it adds the name of the file you’re importing to the name of every object? The names of the objects in your scene can very quickly get a bit unwieldy if you’re working with lots of files. Use the following to clean things up a bit -

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Release your inner chemist with Maya - Scene Setup

Today, Alan Monroig begins to walk us through his chemical mixing scene in the first part of this awesome Maya fluids tutorial. Today’s part covers modeling the objects needed and how to setup the initial fluid states, whilst part two goes on to complete the fluid animation itself and add some smoke to the scene. It’s time to release your inner chemist!

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Simulation Toggle via Maya Display Layers

So this is a little workflow quicky about thinking outside of the box a bit. The goal is to easily create an on/off toggle for all the dynamic simulations in a scene while animating. What it should show is how things like display layers can be used for more then just display visibility.

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Making of Luis Nieves's "Ford GT-40 in Vegas" image

Building a car from the first to last bolt, Luis Nieves explains the process of creating his "Ford GT-40 in Vegas" image. Maya, mental ray and After Effects are all used.

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Create Volumetric Clouds using Maya Fluids

In this tutorial we will use Fluid Shape node's in-built texturing capabilities to create volumetric clouds.

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Create Volumetric Clouds time lapse effect using Maya Fluids

In this tutorial we will create cloud time lapse effect using Maya fluids.

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Introduction to Maya Fluids - Part - I

In this tutorial we will explore Maya Fluids. We will cover following topics... * Fluid Emitters * Content Details * Dynamic Simulation * Auto Resize * Self Attraction/Repulsion * Content Details

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