Maya Tutorials

This is set of triks how to organase workflow with complex scenes using MtoA.Multitexture material - one shader, different textures.You can reduce amount of shaders in scene and speed up look development with one material and individual textures on each object. With this setup, shapes share same ...

1. Prepare the model for rigging 2. Create a skeleton. Adjust the orientation of the bones to your liking or use the default settings. 3. Use Rigger to create inverse kinematics chains (www.rigger.ws). 4. Skin the model   www.rigger.ws

Hi there,   Here is a tutorial to explain you how you can control advanced behavior in Maya when toggling an attribute, the technique can be used for several other purposes, it's basically the way to create inner callbacks in your Maya's scene.The tutorial has been originally wrote for 3dbun...

Hi there,   As a script TD, rigger, or anybody who need to open the Maya's Script Editor, aren't you tired to scroll through tons of grey lines like these one below ? What about color syntaxing all this stuff ?   Here is a tutorial to set a PyQt class in order to override the color synt...

Hi, this tutorial show you how to create a good topological grid using maya. If someone used marvelous he knows that the grid no so good even if you use quads. Hope you like it.  

Hi  Amigos,This tutorial gives you knowledge on the concept of UV pass shader. UV pass shader is used to render UV pass which will be used in compositing to modify texture of the selected object.To start, We will try to understand the concept of UV's in Mayaabove picture is UV layout in maya...

Attribute Collection lets you interactivly build and edit a custom user interface that can be saved with the scene.You can link attributes, group them in various layouts, add buttons and icons.Attribute Collection is part of the Bonus Tools for Maya and can be downloaded here.

Greetings, I made this spider animations tutorial originally for my blog 'Greenhorn CG' but I wanted to share it to more people so here it is. (I had to do some modification to some of the links and texts so my apology if I made any mistake here) I used Maya (but I will only talk about the concep...

Now and again one of the numerous Maya bugs stops you been able to view the render settings window. You can open it up but there is no information there, preventing you from changing any render settings. A quick way to fix this is to do the following – Open up the script editor Type in the follow...

Shuffle a limited set of Maya texture map tiles to create the illusion of randomness and variety.

  Instancers Version:  Maya 2008 Hi everyone this is my first tutorial I hope you learn it and Sorry for bad English    Step 1: You must create a character to animate and it must be a cycle animate You can use any character for this tutorial I m use a Butterflies for this proj...

If you think that you have artistic brain and developing is beyond your possibilities, believe me, your just lazy. You dont need any unique knowledge or special brain structure. You just need willingness to code and necessity of practical application of developing(and you defiantly have it if you...

1. Overview This tutorial walks through the process of creating caustic effects in Autodesk Maya 2014 x64, using advanced shader techniques. It will be most useful to artists who already know some Maya basics: modeling, assigning materials, using the Channel Box, Attribute Editor (CTRL + A), Hype...

For a better updated version of this tutorial please visit: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Use-Mocap-Files-In-Maya-BVH-or-FBX/This tutorial is made for Maya 2013, but I believe it should work in 2010-2015.If you are using a bvh file, download autodesks free bvh converter and convert ...

This tutorial was updated in May 2014.   There are many choices when it comes to deciding on an IDE.  At the time when I decided on Eclipse (back in 2005) I needed an editor that could do the following: useable across multiple platforms supported programming in Python, C++, mel, Java ha...

This tutorial shows how to use the tool Bend of Stress Create Script (vers. 1.0).Bend Stress is useful for wave movements of articulations.You can choose to move a root joint, or a non-root joint (parent).How it shows, you can use “Stress Create” to test your character rigging, or can use it to c...

The Starfish Rig Humanoid rig with 6(5 needed) bonesRead this article in its natural habitat at: Starfish Rig @ Sota.dkAlso available as PDF. Get it here: StarfishRig.pdfNote: This is not a application specific tutorial, rather a philosophy on severe optimization. There are many wa...

tutorial now at http://www.arnokroner.com/design/curriculum-development/tutorials/foggy-egg/

tutorials are now at http://www.arnokroner.com/design/curriculum-development/tutorials/uv-mapping-101-part-2/ and http://www.arnokroner.com/design/curriculum-development/tutorials/uv-mapping-101-part-1/ 

now tutorial is athttp://www.arnokroner.com/design/curriculum-development/tutorials/growing-windy-tree/

Creating ink drop effect in Maya is relatively simple. We already covered the 2d ink drop effect in my previous tutorial. I recommend you to watch that tutorial first.Using 3d fluid container for creating liquids is very hard to control and stimulate. You need a good amount of RAM and h...

Hi Amigos,             This tutorial is about IES profiles use in Mental Ray. Before getting into usage of IES profiles in Maya, we will try to know what is IES profile.          &nb...

This is a tutorial on how to make a space or galaxy effect in Maya. It could be used either to make a scene that a camera could zoom through or to make a background for an After Effects project or something like that. It is meant for people who have a basic understanding of Maya 2012 or 2013, inc...