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Rendering Wireframe Using ToonShader
Rendering Wireframe Using ToonShader
an efficient enough method to rendering a wireframe of a model in maya, no UVs required
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Create 3D clouds in maya without using fluid
Create 3D clouds in maya without using fluid
create 3d clouds move thru your camera and get the same effect like fluid. It renders thousand times faster then maya fluid.
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Ambient occlusion with Mental Ray
Ambient occlusion with Mental Ray
for Maya 7 and above. Faking Fianl Gather with the quicker ambient occlusion pass.
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 Creating a soft-body flag in Maya
Creating a soft-body flag in Maya
In this tutorial you will learn to create a flag using soft bodies.
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Pixar Photorealistic RenderMan - Artist tools (RAT) handbook - Displacement power in Reyes mode.
Pixar Photorealistic RenderMan - Artist tools (RAT) handbook - Displacement power in Reyes mode.
Examples of True Displacement
How to create Displacement maps?
One of the things that the Renderman power lies behind is True Displacement. Using Displacement we can add geometric surface details, those ones that are difficult or impractical to build and work on in the 3D scene.

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mia_roundCorners mental ray node - new in maya 8.5
mia_roundCorners mental ray node - new in maya 8.5
in this tutorial i'll show you in depth how to use the mia_roundCorners node newly introduced into maya 8.5 to create smooth edges (for high quality video plz download : http://rapidshare.com/files/40109059/roundCorners.rar)
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 Creating a spaceship fleet using particle instance
Creating a spaceship fleet using particle instance
Particles are one of greatest features in Maya. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to use particle instance to create fleet of spaceships flying across the planes. Also I'm going to show you how to use events to crash spaceship.
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Tips for Managing 3D Animation Projects
Tips for Managing 3D Animation Projects
Before you start a new 3d animation project. Good plan of project management will save you a lot of time. This article provides some good tips of that.
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Virtual Set Extension
Virtual Set Extension
How to create a digital set to integrate with live action footage.
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ZDepth & Height GrayScale representation in maya
ZDepth & Height GrayScale representation in maya
in this maya video tutorial i'll explain in depth, how to create GrayScale representation of ZDepth as well as Height fields, using many methods including "shading networks" & "mel scripting". (for high quality video plz download http://rapidshare.com/files/40472903/ZDepth___Height_GrayScale_represention.rar)
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Maya 3d and Mudbox Tutorial
Maya 3d and Mudbox Tutorial
Maya 3d and Mudbox workflow Tutorial
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Compositing a 3D rendered object into Video
Compositing a 3D rendered object into Video
This is a very simple tutorial demonstrating how to take 2D video footage and composite a 3D animated object in the scene.
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animate wings using deformers
animate wings using deformers
The tutorial shows how the animate wings using deformers in Maya.
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 Slicing effect using ramps in Maya
Slicing effect using ramps in Maya
In this tutorial I'm going to show how to make slicing effect using simple shading networks.
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Compositing Backlighting
Compositing Backlighting
Add backlighting to your Maya rendered objects.
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