Maya Tutorials

hey therefirst of all,just to notice that you can find this solution allso in other websites,but only here i'll show you it on video.so first i'll explain the problem-- sometimes you get a maya file that sombody gave you,lets say that your friend gave you a scene that he did in maya 2010.but you ...

Hi, my name is Belyaev Andrey and I am freelance CG artist. You can see more of my portfolio here Today we are going to talk about modeling difficult objects of rotation. The sense of my method of modeling of such surfaces is simple first the flat model is done and then turned off in a tubule. So...

Wildcards Selecting nodes using wildcards in the Input Box This tutorial originated on the 3D Animation weblog Set Driven Key. You may already be familiar with the Input Box in Maya. It's a text field on the status line (on the top right of the screen) where you can type in the name of an object ...

This tutorial is also available at pdipierro.com: Creating a Squash and Stretch Control.  Or visit Set Driven Key  for more tips and tricks.Introduction to Squash and Stretch Building a stretch control for your character rig Squash and Stretch is one of the most important classical prin...

In this tutorial we will create some hair styles with Maya fur plug-in. Im assuming that you have a basic knowledge in Maya and its core concepts and procedures, which will help to keep this tutorial as short as possible.A text version of this same totorial can be found at https://www.creativecra...

Requirements and Downloads You  need the latlong_lens mental ray lens shader (latlong_lens.zip) . Example scene on how to use the shader, including the rendered HDR image (example_scene.zip). In order to view and edit HDR images HDRShop comes in handy .Introduction This tutorial shows how to...

To import .chan into Maya you will need this file:http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/utility-external/c/-chan-file-exporter-importer-with-nuke6x-point-cloud-importing--2

It is an issues when i came up with we had lots of referances to a scene. We had a scene where we had nearly 15 characters were referanced. the size of the total (combined with the referances) were nearly 150 megabytes. But the time it took to save is was around 4 minutes! I first tought it was a...

Hey All,first of all just to clear it out, the thumnail are not the final render  resoult of the tutorial.in this video tutorial ill show how to creat a daynamic grass field in very easy and fast way, with the help with the paint effect option in maya.ill not gona show all the option or all ...

How to fade particle instancer (Maya Dynamics Tutorial) In this tutorial i`ll try to explain how to fade particle instances on a particle basis :). So, here we go :Duplicate the object which you intend to use as instance 10 times for this example. The number of duplicates are actually steps of fa...

Servo Tools For Maya: Installation from Dan Thompson on Vimeo.Duration: 15minsThis tutorial covers how to install all of the components required to run Servo Tools For Maya.To download the Servo Tools For Maya visit:http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/utility-external/expo...

User Interfaces has been around for decades. For a while we had been using text input UI’s. There was a huge following for the voice-activated UI’s. But the most prevalent and most used UI is the graphic UI. People have been reinventing it ever since it’s first conception. So much so that it has ...

Creating Character Sets After Setting Animation Curves by: Earl Jordan   This tutorial will show us how to create character sets to skeletons with animation already in place. As a standard operating procedure (SOP), usually we create these character sets before we set keys for animation but ...

PLUMBER TUTORIALThe Snowfight Sample Project It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that all users complete the tutorial.The tutorial is a short sample project, and it demonstrates the major concepts of the Plumber system.  It explains how to use the tools of Plumber effectively, and after going through...

Hey,in this cool tutorial i'll teach you how to add a thumbnail to your shaders in the hypershade library.normaly in your hypershade library you store all your shaders ...but they come with a defult maya logo and thats all.. !and what if you have alote of shader ,and its very hard to remember how...

HELLO,IN THIS TUTORIAL I'LL TEACH HOW TO AUTOMAT AND ROTATE BUNCH OF COG-WHEELS WITHIN 3 MIN.  WORKINGWE GONA USE 1 UTILITY FROM THE HYPERSHADE NAMED "MULTIPLY DIVIDE" , TO CREAT THIS AUTOMATIC ANIMATION THAT  ROTATE IN THE END ONLY 1 COG-WHEEL THAT WILL DERIVE ALL THE OTHER COG-WHEEL A...

hey all,in this tutorial ill show how to creat a wings animation cycle with very simple and fast way.first we gona build the 3d model ,and then you gona see how with simple script you can do magicsthanks for watching, and ill be happy to get your commentsAviad Van-Prach -- 433 --2009 israel

hello,in this tutorial i will teach you easily ,how to creat the realistic animation for a dolphin 3d shape that you have.for this tutorial you will need to have a 3d shape of a dolphinewe gona use a sine deformers to creat this kind of a loop animation for the dolphine ,and allso ill show you ho...

in this tutorial ill will show you how to change the maya startup image to one from your collactionvery easy and fast to do :)this is the first video english tutorial that i upload to this site, you can find more of my  tutorials in youtubes (in hebrew language)i will happy to upload more vi...

Hi! This tutorial will briefly look into Vray For Mayas Blend Material “VRay Blend MTL.” It is very useful when you need to add for exemple a text on materials and still keep the base materials properties, or when you have to use textures in layers.So for this tutorial we will create something li...

Hi everyone!My name is Dennis and just got my hands on the Vray For Maya demo! A friend asked if I could explain the basics, so here is a very simple tutorial. First of all if you havent, get Vray For Maya from ChaosGroup --> http://www.chaosgroup.com (you have to create an account)- Then just...