Faking ray-traced shadows with depth-map shadows - Maya 3D tutorial

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In this tutorial I am going to show you how to generate exploding pieces with particle instancer and particle expressions.

To produce realistic 'soft shadows' in Maya, you have two solutions.

After studying Bend and Flare Deformer now it's the moment learning Sine. Differs from Flare Deformer, where I apply Flare just for modeling (has not got idea to apply Flare for animation). For Sine, I only apply Sine just for animation, but possible Sine applicable to assist modeling process (I have never tried applies Sine for modeling).

This tutorial is about making lowpoly women's hair for game characters but the technique work for men's hair as well.

Create realistic modelled human ears.