H3D Tutorials

Batch Rendering 102:If you are new to batch rendering I suggest you have a look at my step-by-step tutorial here: Rendering several maya scenes and camerasThe following tutorial is to answer the most common questions I am e-mailed regarding batch renderingHow do I make the batch renderer use Ment...

Rendering Realistic DinosaursHaving many tons worth of digital prehistoric animals under our belt.  A number of  people have asked about my rendering set-up at dotnamestudios.  This tutorial is not about displacement maps or how to model but taken from the point after you have your...

Compositing 101: The Black edge-----The black edge...that faint line of premultiplied colour can be a devil if nobody has ever shown you how to get rid of it.Here is your frame turtle_0034Here is your background sea footage:The problem is this horrible faint black edge that you can't seem to get ...

Loading scripts in Maya sounds like programming and often sends artists hiding under their desks but really it is a quick easy process and opens a whole world of amazing little tools-Highend3d and other resources are packed with amazing scripts and tools that are made by kind souls and handed out...

I must thank Davvey for sharing this with me, there are few others that deserve credit,  their names are in the downloaded script file.If you download a lot of scripts this is a goodie...your script folder pops up inside Maya as a drop-down:download these scripts:DVY_menu.zipPut the DVY_Scri...

Backwards compatibility for Maya Long a bug bear for many Autodesk products, fortunatley there is a solution for Maya;If you are using 8.5 and want to import later versions such as 2008; open>options box there's a "ignore version" setting that opens pretty much anything.XminusOne for pointing ...

THE PROBLEM:You need your animation rendered by the morning. You have 3 scenes to render each scene is saved in a different maya file and one of the scenes you have two cameras, you need both of them rendered and you are a tired artist not a programmer.THE SOLUTION:Open notepadtype "render my_sce...