Tutorial Overview

Get all five volumes of our Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment courseware and save 15% (normal price $149).
This series will take you through the complete pipeline of creating animated and textured exterior shots, starting with the modeling of the house and finishing off with the final composite.

Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment Volume 1

Learn how to model a house based on architectural blueprints in Maya. We use a variety of modeling techniques with polygons, NURBS and curves to build the house in this step-by-step project. [Full Details Volume 1]



Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment Volume 2

This tutorial covers the UV layout and environment creation. Here we look at a wide range of topics to prepare for texturing such as UV mapping, baking high-res geometry into displacement, and generating normal and ambient occlusion maps. You'll also learn how to use Paint FX in Maya to create trees and bushes for any type of environment, do a basic camera match and various techniques for placing objects with particle systems. [Full Details Volume 2]



Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment Volume 3

In this tutorial we cover the texturing and animation of environments, as well as some techniques for complex paint effects. [Full Details Volume 3]

Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment Volume 4

In this tutorial we cover the texturing and materials for the main house. The bulk of the texturing is done in Mari where we create diffuse color, bump, spec, displacement and dirt maps. We also look at various techniques to generate baked maps to aid the texturing process. [Full Details Volume 4]

Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment Volume 5

In this tutorial we take a look at the new system for render passes and layers in Maya 2016, before moving on to Nuke to composite both the still shot and the animation. [Full Details Volume 5]


All necessary scene files are included with this courseware.

Other tutorials in this series

Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment Volume 1
Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment Volume 2
Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment Volume 3
Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment Volume 4
Spach-Alspaugh House and Environment Volume 5

Downloads

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Parts Credits Length Size
Lesson Pack 1 3 60 Minutes 534 Mb
Lesson Pack 2 3 61 Minutes 461 Mb
Lesson Pack 3 3 80 Minutes 546 Mb
Lesson Pack 4 3 80 Minutes 567 Mb
Lesson Pack 5 3 77 Minutes 618 Mb
Lesson Pack 6 3 66 Minutes 513 Mb
Lesson Pack 7 2 30 Minutes 405 Mb
Lesson Pack 8 2 60 Minutes 460 Mb
Lesson Pack 9 2 51 Minutes 268 Mb
Lesson Pack 10 2 55 Minutes 770 Mb
Lesson Pack 11 3 36 Minutes 478 Mb
Lesson Pack 12 3 45 Minutes 407 Mb
Lesson Pack 13 2 70 Minutes 480 Mb
Lesson Pack 14 3 4 Minutes 759 Mb
Lesson Pack 15 4 90 Minutes 871 Mb
Lesson Pack 16 4 70 Minutes 419 Mb
Lesson Pack 17 2 61 Minutes 349 Mb
Lesson Pack 18 3 60 Minutes 305 Mb
Lesson Pack 19 3 10 Minutes 927 Mb
Lesson Pack 20 3 90 Minutes 334 Mb
Lesson Pack 21 3 95 Minutes 931 Mb
Lesson Pack 22 3 70 Minutes 434 Mb
Lesson Pack 23 2 90 Minutes 863 Mb
Lesson Pack 24 2 60 Minutes 339 Mb
Lesson Pack 25 3 20 Minutes 1400 Mb
Lesson Pack 26 3 50 Minutes 221 Mb
Lesson Pack 27 3 55 Minutes 211 Mb
Lesson Pack 28 3 47 Minutes 244 Mb
Lesson Pack 29 2 35 Minutes 266 Mb
  • Length: 27 hours and 58 minutes
  • Software: Maya 2016, Nuke 9, Mari
  • Format: 1080p HD
  • Download Price: 124.95
  • Video Credits: 80