Moving Tentacles - Maya 3D tutorial

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This tutorial will show how to using smooth bind.Using smooth bind creates a skin in which each point is influenced by a number of joints. This allows the skin to deform smoothly with the skeleton

The tutorial shows the main characteristics of a spotlight: creation, shadows etc

Projection mapping is a feature that allows you to project 2D texture with an object called placement node, so you don't need to worry about UVs on the objects.

this is a Free Maya video tutorial by cgwhat on how to model a Star Wars Hailfire Droid really cool from start to end but free, tutorial is 4H 15M long so if intermittent user in Maya you should be able to follow along and end up with a cool model

This tutorial demonstrates how to use high dynamic imaging in Maya.