Maya Tutorials

Create two polygon primitives of your choice with low poly count.Select them, make a polygonal boolean operation (Polygons - Booleans - Union, you can change the operation type afterwards).Select the resulting polySurface and smooth it (Edit Polygons - Smooth),edit polySmoothFacet divisions Attri...

1. Introduction(seamless modeling in Maya)"This tutorials is result of my research work in the area of character modeling and animation."Michael Bazhutkin is animator of video studio at Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstanweb site: www.geocities.com/bazhutkine-mail: misha@soros.kgClick on pictures for vie...

2. Head, hands, cloth(seamless modeling in Maya)"This tutorials is result of my research work in the area of character modeling and animation."Michael Bazhutkin is animator of video studio at Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstanweb site: www.geocities.com/bazhutkine-mail: misha@soros.kg Click on pictures ...

"This tutorials is result of my research work in the area of character modeling and animation."Michael Bazhutkin is animator of video studio at Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstanweb site: www.geocities.com/bazhutkine-mail: misha@soros.kgClick on pictures for view of big pictures.The dog is a copy-model ...

One of the most common question for beginners in 3d is how to model a head.Wich technique is the best? Polygons, Nubs, Subdivision surfaces?All techniques has it owns advantages but the one that has most unansweredquestions is Patch-modeling. Everyone has heard of it but few really knowsthe workf...

1. First attach the two topsurfaces of the eyewith the connect option.2. Make the surface live and draw a cv-curve on it,representing the base of the eyelash.3. Model a single hair4. Move the pivotpoint to the base and animate the hairobject (over about 100 frames) along the path you just created...

This tutorial is for Maya 2.5. It will work with Base, Complete, or Unlimited. This tutorial is aimed at thebeginner to intermediate user who is familiar with Maya, but has never used Subdivision surfaces.DisclaimerUse at your own risk. Author is not responsible for anything. If you can somehow d...

Perhaps I should preface this tutorial by acknowledging that many different methods exist for creating 3D characters for broadcast. To date, probably the most popular method has, in my estimation, also been the most complex one - that is, modeling with the use of NURBS surfaces. In the past, NURB...

When Maya renders a NURBS surface, the object is tesselated into triangles (polygons). Understanding tesselation is crucial to clean silhouettes and patch boundary relationships. There are several options for tesellation, but this quick tutorial is dealing with multi-patch models.Above we have a ...

This tutorial covers the modeling of a sci fi creature head using the popular technique of NURBS patches. Models consisting of NURBS patches is the most common appearance used in films, based on several reasons: NURBS can have infinite resolution, meaning it retesselates depending on distance fro...

Step 11.Remaining surfaces to be done of the actual head are the inside of the mouth. Turn the view so that you can see the inside, then extract every edge isoparm of the lips (go 'Edit curves - duplicate surface curves') - see figure 21.Duplicate these as well. Before moving them you will need t...

After receiving a few requests to write a tutorial on my technique for modeling a head in Maya, I've decided to demonstrate exactly how I would go about making one. When modeling a head in maya, you always want to result in a detailed, yet clean model. Nurbs patches are a great way to get this ef...

Chapter 7The Structure of the Head and FeaturesModeling a NURBS HeadUPDATEDCopyright 1999 Peter Ratner(Excerpt from Mastering 3D Animation)There are many approaches to modeling the human head. Most of these methods were designed to accomplish specific goals such as easier sculpting of facial feat...

StarWarsThe purpose of this tutorial is modeling a Walker in a better and faster way than people at ILM can, so you can steel their job, get George Lucas fired, and create new job postings in 3d productions houses...Of course, the 3d model comes first.we'll actually model two walkers with differe...

This article was printed in the 1998 siggraph issueof 3D Design magazine, for an article Alex Alvarez wrote entitled 'Organic Modeling and Animation in Maya V.1',Alex is director and instructor at Gnomon Training Center, a HIGHEND3D.COM strategic partner. Alex teaches advancedacharacter nimation ...

The purpose of this tutorial is to guide you through the process of modeling in Maya. It illustrates some of the modeling techniques used in Maya that some of us might have forgotten about.Then we are going to export our model to Zbrush for details.Once the Zbrush phase is done, we are going to e...