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David James Software: Maya 2016, Nuke 9
In this tutorial we take a look at render passes and layers in Maya 2016. We then move on to Nuke to composite both the still shot and the animation. Topics covered include how to create a volume fog layer in Maya, setting up a basic composite, maski...
David James Software: Maya 2016, Mari 2.6
In this tutorial we cover the texturing and materials for the main house. The bulk of the texturing happens in Mari where we create color, bump, spec, displacement and dirt maps. We also look at various techniques to generate baked maps to aid in the...
David James Software: Maya 2016
This tutorial covers the texturing and animation of environments. We also look at some techniques for complex paint effects. Topics include animation with paint effects, paint effects geometry and caching, leaf cards in Photoshop and texturing flower...
Nilla Nova Software: Maya 2016
This tutorial takes you through the modeling of Burt the Cartoon Dinosaur. We pay special attention to creating nice topology, with quads and an edge flow that you can easily rig and animate. So if you have some experience in Maya, and you're looking...
David James Software: Maya 2016, Mari 2.6v5
This tutorial starts with the creation of the UV map using new techniques in Maya 2016. With this UV workflow it's possible to UV a cartoon character in around 15 minutes. We also look at UV tiling to maximize texture space, and how to make our job o...
David James Software: Maya 2016
In this tutorial we create a robot in Maya. He has both organic components and hard surface elements in his design. This will allow us to show different modeling principles. We also take rigging and animation into consideration during the modelin...
David James Software: Maya 2015
In this tutorial we create a complex simulation using four of the main dynamics engines found in Maya. We start by shattering geometry, followed by simulations with Bullet physics. After our simulation finishes we cache it out using Maya's pipeline ...
David James Software: Maya 2015
In this tutorial we take a look at creating the UV maps and the environment for the Spach-Alspaugh House. We cover many topics like UV mapping and baking of high resolution geometry into displacement. We also generate ambient occlusion maps to prepa...
Some free Maya courses to help you get started.
Although it might be intimidating for new users, the Bezier Curve Tool is one of the fastest ways to create complex curves in Maya. In our video, we start off by showing you how to use the Bezier Curve Tool to model a wine glass in Maya 2022. From...
In our new tutorial, we answer a question that often gets asked - how to cut round holes in Maya. The method we use works for cutting any type of hole in geometry. Maya's modeling tools chamfer vertex and circularize vertex get us off to a quick...
Bifrost is not only capable of simulating fluids but you can also use it for cloth. In this short tutorial, we show you how to drape a cloth over a table in Maya. This will get you used to the node chains and workflow of creating cloth within...
Continuing the modelling which can be found here We look at some techniques to quickly UV an object in Maya. Scene file can be found
A tutorial on basic poly modelling in Maya 2020. This is a continuation of our getting started with Maya series and contains the information you need to make your first model in Maya. The reference image I used can be found
Continuing our getting started with Maya series we're going to walk you through the principles of UV mapping. If you've never done any UV mapping before this would be a good place to start.
