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Faking radiosity in Maya

An approach of simulating color transport in Maya in few steps without any extra light source. Let's say that this tutorial is a global method to fake 'easily' and quickly radiosity in Maya.

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The Fisheye Camera

This tutorial teaches you technique of creating The Fisheye Camera render.

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Randomly Shuffled Texture Tiles

Shuffle a limited set of Maya texture map tiles to create the illusion of randomness and variety.

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Desk Lamp using Fog, Decay Regions and Intensity Curves

In this tutorial, we will make a desk lamp using Light Intensity Curves, Light Fog, Double-Sided Shading and Shader Glow.

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MentalRay for Maya Tessellation

Mental Ray tessellation explained, with a sample Maya file and a short tutorial.

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HDR enviroment map

Create your own HDR environment map in Maya/mental ray for image based lighting

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Generating and using Normal Maps in Maya

If you're familiar with normal maps check directly here for a faster application of the method described down here using my rayDisplace plugin.

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Mental Ray Contours

Author of this article gathered some info from many resources and put it into one detailed tutorial which is about Mental Ray Contours in Maya software.

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Growing a stormy tree with paint effects

Here’s how to grow a tree in Maya using a Paint Effects Brush. This assumes that you have a working knowledge of the Maya interface (you know how to access the Attribute Editor and you know what the Channel Box looks like).

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Creating an Animated Flag

This is a tutorial on creating an animated flag using the built in tools of Maya without having to resort to the memory intensive Cloth simulator.

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Maya Particle Instancer

The following is a brief description of all the settings available for the instancer in the particle shape Attribute Editor in Maya.

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Motion Path Camera

Say you need to create a scene where you have a camera that follows a motion path and holds focus on the subject until a given point in time and then leaves our subject to focus on another part of the scene. In this tutorial, a sphere will be our subject in the shot. We will use two locators as our “Home” and “Target” aim constraint for our camera.

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Dynamic Rope

This tutorial will show you how to create a dynamic rope using softbodies in Maya.

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Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Terrain Displacement

In this tutorial you will learn how to create the image seen (tutorial thumb) using displacement in Mental Ray for Maya.

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Creating a Sky Dome

This tutorial will teach you how to create and texture a sky dome in Maya.

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Hypershade Tabs

This tutorial will show you how to create a tab in the Hypershade which is mapped to a reference materials library that you have saved on your machine or a network drive.

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Organic Modeling and Animation - Part Two (IK Setup)

While it is simple to set up a skeleton that can walk in a straight line, it is another thing to set up a skeleton which can do anything. Check this tutorial if you want to add a new depth to your knowledge of maya animation.

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Dynamic Constraints

The following concept tutorial will be covering Dynamic Constraints for sled or Star Wars pod type rigs.

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Surface Emitted Particles on SoftBody Tenticles

The following concept tutorial will be covering Surface Emitted Particles on SoftBody tenticles to create a spiraling array particle system for futuristic gun blasts or whatever.

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PaintFX Hair

This is very short tutorial about the most important things about using PFX for hair.

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