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Making of the Joker
Making of the Joker
Artist saw the dark knight posters and decide to try something similar but did not want the character to look like Heath Ledger
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Modelling - Difficulty:
Modeling A Ship In Alias|wavefront`s Maya 2.0
Modeling A Ship In Alias|wavefront`s Maya 2.0
One crucial thing to do before modeling is to do research. I searched the web and found images of cruise ships.
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Texture Resolution
Texture Resolution
A common question when new to texture mapping, is what resolution should textures be? This is assuming that you are going
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Turn Auto Exposure Off For Glows In Animations
Turn Auto Exposure Off For Glows In Animations
If you use shader glows or any of the optical fx features, things will look great on your test images, but when you render
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Turning Depth Map Auto Focus Off
Turning Depth Map Auto Focus Off
When using depth map shadows, the map resolution is very important to the quality of the shadow. Sometimes, when your
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UV Mapping a box and make a building
UV Mapping a box and make a building
In this tutorial i will explain a very fast and effective way of texturing complex models with UV maps. I will not be using the PSD files for this. Just a plain jpeg which I have downloaded from the net.
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Textures - Difficulty:
character setup (2): adjusting skin weights
character setup (2): adjusting skin weights
The deformation not intended might happen to the smooth binded skin. You should adjust the skin weights and control the deformation.
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Characters - Difficulty:
character setup (1): skeleton and skinning
character setup (1): skeleton and skinning
To animate character objects, you should setup the skeleton and make the objects skinned. In this tutorial, I am going to explain how to construct joints and how to bind the objects to the skeleton.
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Characters - Difficulty:
Creating Displacement , Normal & Bump Map
Creating Displacement , Normal & Bump Map
This tutorial will teach you the differences of displacement and bump maps and normal maps and how to assign them to a shader and a model. This is just an overview tutorial on both subjects, and will teach the basic attributes of both of them.
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Textures - Difficulty:
Creating A Clean Gray Colored Rendering
Creating A Clean Gray Colored Rendering
This tutorial will teach you how to create a rendering using Mental Ray, Final Gather, and an area light.
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Lighting - Difficulty:
reciprocating engine mechanism with using simple expressions and constrains
reciprocating engine mechanism with using simple expressions and constrains
If you wants to learn some basic animation technique in maya then this tutorial may help you. In this tutorial I am going to discus the simplest way to accomplish the reciprocating engine mechanism with using simple expressions and constrains.
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Animation - Difficulty:
Rendering Wireframe Using ToonShader
Rendering Wireframe Using ToonShader
an efficient enough method to rendering a wireframe of a model in maya, no UVs required
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Tips & Tricks - Difficulty:
making fireworks with particle
making fireworks with particle
In this tutorial, I am going to explain how to make fireworks with particles. You should setup particles for smoke effects which is shot into the air, and spark effects.
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Effects - Difficulty:
Subdiv Modeling Basics - Part 2 (Circles and Tiles)
Subdiv Modeling Basics - Part 2 (Circles and Tiles)
Learn the basics of subdiv modeling
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Basics - Difficulty:
Uv mapping basics video tutorial
Uv mapping basics video tutorial
A basic guide to UV mapping in maya, designed for beginners. UV mapping is necessary if you want to texture you models and we tell you how to do it in under 7 minutes!
Category: Maya 3D tutorials > Textures - Difficulty:
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