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David James Software: Maya 2017
Save over $20 on the complete three volume set of our Maya fundamentals courseware. In this 12 hour long bundle we'll cover the fundamental principles of modeling and rendering in Maya. Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1 This ...
David James Software: Maya 2016, Nuke 9, Mari
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 th...
Jason Edwards Software: Maya 2013 / ZBrush 4
Save over 25% (normal price $114.85, bundle price $84.95) on this 20 hour long three volume creature series by Jason Edwards from Framestore. We get asked all the time how creatures are made for film and how that differs from simply creating somethin...
David James Software: Maya 2014
Save 20% off the regular price with this mastering mental ray bundle, which contains three of our best selling tutorials from the last year. We put it together to focus on creating and rendering indoor environments. The first two tutorials concentrat...
David James Software: Maya 2014
Save 20% off the regular price with this mastering mental ray bundle, which contains three of our best selling tutorials from the last year. We put it together to focus on creating and rendering outdoor environments. The first two tutorials in concen...
David James Software: Maya 2012
Get started learning dynamics in Maya with these two projects covering fluids, rigid body dynamics and keyframe animation. We also cover lighting and rendering in Mental Ray with image based lighting, caustics, final gather and global illumination. A...
Jason Edwards Software: Maya 2011 & ZBrush 4
Learn the complete character workflow for VFX in Maya and ZBrush with all three volumes of Surfing with the Alien. This series was created by Jason Edwards who's a Senior Artist at Framestore, so if you want to learn how to make characters that reach...
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.
