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Maya Exterior Environment Creation

This in-depth series focuses on the creation of an exterior scene in Maya.

Create a Dynamic Shattering Text Animation in Maya

The Maya shatter effect can be a useful technique to know, but if used incorrectly, it can also cause many headaches due to slow simulation and interpenetration issues. In this tutorial we will go over some different methods of dealing with the shatter effect to create a faster and more reliable workflow, which can be used in a variety of different scenarios.

Product Rendering With Fryrender

In this tutorial by author Shaun Keenan, we'll look at setting up and rendering a product shot inside of RandomControl's Fryrender

Baking Ambient Occlusion in Maya 2011

In this tutorial I show you how to quickly bake ambient occlusion onto multiple objects at once using Maya. This is really helpful to use as an additional overlay in your texture work to add depth or dirt etc.

Cheap Facial Motion Capture Video Tutorial

The purpose of this tutorial is to show that even a small studio can afford to use facial motion capture. As an animator in the computer games industry I have, on numerous occasions, been approached by the creative producer regarding the possibility of producing minutes upon minutes of lip-sync animation. Sadly the time frame has always been too tight to deliver a quality that I can personally be proud of. The technique presented in this tutorial is an attempt to bridge the gap between large quantities of lip-syncing and a tight time budget.

Making of Gladiator.

Tutorial about creating the gladiatorr scene.

Making of little fishes

This tutorial will teach you how to create the scene with girl and small fishes.

Making of Turkish Butcher

Tutorial about creating scene with a turkey butcher.

Creating a Realistic Planet

This tutorial will explain how to make a simple planet, that is not rendering intensive and actually looks pretty good.

Underwater lighting

In this tutorial we will be exploring the use of the Mental Ray node "parti_volume".

Using Sun and Sky in Mental Ray with Maya

With Maya 8.5 mental ray's got some new fancy options and modes. One of them is the Sun and Sky system. I'm going to guide you through some of new features.

Making of Trapped

Tutorial about rendering realistic bird in Maya.

Falling leaves with nCloth and Paint Effects

Use latest simulation module nCloth and Paint Effects in Maya 8.5 to create falling leaves animation.

Modeling of Coca-Cola Bottle

This tutorial is intended to show you how to make a Coca-Cola bottle using Maya.

Making of Tiger Zoo

Tutorial about creating realistic tiger model.

Creating optimized caustics in Maya Mray

In this tutorial we'll stick with refracted caustics for now.