SimplyMaya - Learn Maya

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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