Learn to build models, make your own textures, and render movies with SimplyMaya. We show you the best ways to work in Maya, with tips to make life easier.
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...
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.
Continuing our getting started with Maya 2020 series we create a custom shelf in Maya to speed up our workflow. We'll also show you a couple of scripts we use here at SimplyMaya all the time, along with how to add them to your own custom...
The first course in a series of tutorials designed to get you up and running with Maya. Aimed squarely at people with no 3D experience. Maya 2017 and up.
Learn how to create a turn table, render it out in Maya, and turn it into a movie sequence. We used Virtual Dub to put the frames together, you can download it here: http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/.
A fast way to generate wire-frames for your renders. Works with animations or still shots.
Just a quick video for anyone having issues with Maya corrupting files. Maya 2020 in this case but might work for other versions. Good Luck
Covers the process of texture creation from a photographic image through to a full tileable 3D texture.
An introduction to our new texture collaboration system https://simplymaya.com/user-content/new/. A look at why you might want to use it and what we hope to achieve with it.
A quick disclaimer, I'm not a medical professional and this tutorial is done as a modelling exercise in Maya for our community. Living in a country in which the warning of facemasks is compulsory I was asked by several people to 3D print masks...
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