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Drive Keys

This tutorial teaches you how to set up and use drive keys.

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Pinboard tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to make pinboard in maya.

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Rigging a ball with Cartoon Funtionality

In this four part video we discuss the process of making a squishy squashy bouncing ball rig. The topics cover adding deformers such as lattices and clusters with custom controls, attributes, and hierarchy. We go through using measuring tools to control deformation and break down the process of normalizing values to make our rigs scale properly. We also look at how to use the connection editor to make direct links between attributes from node to node. The techniques involved can be used for many rigging solutions beyond a simple bouncing ball.

Not yet rated with 895 hits  Added on: Dec 29, 2009

Basics Of Maya Key Frame Animation

This tutorial will teach you the fundamentals of how animate in Maya.

Not yet rated with 1463 hits  Added on: Aug 23, 2009

Grabbing and Releasing Objects the Easy Way

One of the trickier hitches with animating in maya is dynamic parenting, aka space switching. Constraints go a long way but without the know-how it can be very frustrating to animate the passing of objects from one space to another. While there are some great tools for speeding up workflow and easing the pain of space switching (see Hamish McKenzie's zooToolbox or John Doublestein's JTDdynParentUI) if you just need to switch spaces from one object to the world it's fairly easy with the standard maya toolset. We'll start with a pre-existing scene of an animated scooper and by the end it will pick up a ball and release it into the air in a few easy steps.

Not yet rated with 833 hits  Added on: Jul 09, 2009

Creating a Stormy Ocean Animation in Maya

This tutorial will teach you how to create an awesome stormy ocean animation in Maya using fluid effecsts.

Not yet rated with 1197 hits  Added on: Jul 09, 2009

Flying butterfly animation - Tutorial for beginners

In this tutorial, we will make a simple butterfly and animate it. Follow the steps as shown below.

Not yet rated with 1366 hits  Added on: Jul 09, 2009

Rigging Computer Mouse

In this tutorial we will look at the technique of creating a computer mouse rig. We will walk you through the process of creating bones, ik handles, rig controls and finally painting weights.We will also teach you some cool MEL scripts that you can use in your rigging process. Lets get started.

Not yet rated with 662 hits  Added on: Jul 09, 2009

Grabbing and Releasing Objects the Easy Way

One of the trickier hitches with animating in maya is dynamic parenting, aka space switching. Constraints go a long way but without the know-how it can be very frustrating to animate the passing of objects from one space to another. While there are some great tools for speeding up workflow and easing the pain of space switching (see Hamish McKenzie's zooToolbox or John Doublestein's JTDdynParentUI) if you just need to switch spaces from one object to the world it's fairly easy with the standard maya toolset. We'll start with a pre-existing scene of an animated scooper and by the end it will pick up a ball and release it into the air in a few easy steps.

Rated: with 1391 hits  Added on: Jan 30, 2009

Creating A Simple IK Rig Part Two

It's important that you read the last tutorial because it gets you up to speed for this tutorial. In this tutorial, we'll teach you how to build realistic actuator movement.

Rated: with 1900 hits  Added on: Nov 11, 2008

Rendering An Animation

This tutorial will teach you how to render a 3D animation.

Rated: with 1152 hits  Added on: Nov 09, 2008

Creating A Basic IK System

Once you have learned to create a simple IK rig, the rest of the rigging tutorials you'll read on my site and other sites will be easier to understand. This tutorial won't go through all the details of the IK system. This is just an over-view tutorial.

Rated: with 1198 hits  Added on: Nov 09, 2008

cluster animation

Keyframes can be set directly to CV and Vertices, but the setting becomes complex because there are a lot of numbers, or you would forget which group you have set keyframe. You can make groups with Cluster Deformer.

Rated: with 1107 hits  Added on: Nov 05, 2008

camera work with the motion path

If you use the Motion Path with camera, you can set the camera target by the path and you can make smooth rotation of camara view.

Rated: with 1289 hits  Added on: Nov 05, 2008

animation of two gears

4 methods of how to transmit rotation around Z axis to rotation around X axis.

Rated: with 910 hits  Added on: Oct 27, 2008

attribute animation

How to set up the keyframes to the attributes of the material and how to edit them in the spread sheet and the Graph Editor.

Rated: with 977 hits  Added on: Oct 27, 2008

piston animation with constrain and driven key

making a piston animation with constrain and driven key

Rated: with 1373 hits  Added on: Oct 20, 2008

the Graph Editor

In this tutorial I am going to explain the basics of the Graph Editor.

Rated: with 1134 hits  Added on: Oct 20, 2008

Dynamic Camera via Maya Hair

Hand keying steady cam effects can be a drag, and we used to have to set up complex soft-body rigs to simulate it. Here is a way to set up a dynamic camera utilizing Maya's dynamic curves that's fast, easy, and fun.

Rated: with 2731 hits  Added on: Aug 04, 2008

Learn Maya 3D Nonlinear Deformers Part VI – Wave Deformer

This is last series from Nonlinear Deformer series. Wave deformer hardly suited for making animation expanding ring of ripple. To apply wave I recommend that you to apply high resolution object.

Rated: with 1563 hits  Added on: Jun 08, 2008