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Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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visit RandomBlowup.com

Hi guys, A couple of friends and I have just launched our website, called www.randomblowup.com. We would just like to get an idea of what other...

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by David

13-07-2005|01:48 PM

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Ice Age 2 : The Meltdown Trailer Update

Revamped Ice Age 2 trailer About 30 seconds longer than the one that was floating on the net in March.

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by Tubby

13-07-2005|01:42 PM

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Rendering SubD's problems

Hi all, I use Windows and I have the next grafic card: Winfast - Geforce4 MX 440 64Mb. My problem is that when I try to rendering my subd objects,...

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by lluc

13-07-2005|12:55 PM

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Merge Verticies and normals problem

Hi Im relativly new to maya but i have done enough tutroials for good fundamentals. I am working on my first character without using a tutorial and...

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by acute

13-07-2005|11:58 AM

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Maya n00b!

New here, i really want to learn all this 3-d stuff. Seeing all those finished projects you guys made are very cool. Just wondering how you guys...

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by heartlessguy

13-07-2005|12:49 AM

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Points?

Hi, i´m new to this 3D stuff so i was looking for some video tutortials, and i heard somebody talking about simplymaya.com and i thought that i...

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by BMS

12-07-2005|11:18 PM

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polygons to subdivisions

hi guys. so i was working on the cartoon dog video and every time i try to convert it from polys to subdivision,it tells me that there are some...

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by vladimirjp

12-07-2005|09:20 PM

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Curves

Anyone know of any curve tutorials. I am trying to create an face drawing a curve, how do I revolve i guess the curve when im drawing the whole side...

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by acute

12-07-2005|06:57 PM

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need some help creating an underwater scene

hi,i want to make just some fish swimming underwater .i dont find a good underwater shader and i dontknow how to make the effects left by the fish on...

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by nausikaa

12-07-2005|06:19 PM

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Calling Michael McKinley

Hi Mike, Due to visual effects work I'm starting to get back into Maya after having strayed a bit into Cinema 4D. I am looking into books on Maya...

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by maya4todd

12-07-2005|05:28 PM

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softbody whiskers

In the seal project I was working on, the textbook called for making the seals whiskers a soft body, weighting them, and making the original shape a...

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by spacedog

12-07-2005|06:37 AM

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Timeing of Animation [Help]

okay i was viewing some tutorials and stuff, and i notive. that the timeing on them where much slower then what i have, mine is really really fast....

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by fabolous

12-07-2005|02:29 AM

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Checking number of faces

How do i show how many faces my polygon has? i used to know but i forgot and cant find it :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

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by errethakbe

12-07-2005|12:17 AM

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dissapearing geometry

I have been working through a textbook on a project called salty the seal. I finished the project and went to render it and it started off ok, but...

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by spacedog

11-07-2005|08:38 PM

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3D or 2D character library

Hello- Does anyone know of a good 3D character library to populate professional architectural illustrations? Anything with business people and...

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by mhcannon

11-07-2005|05:28 PM

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Cartoon Dog by kurt...

I started using Maya a few days ago and I found this site and decided to try and make the “cartoon dog” by Kurt Boutilier. Now the 1st problem I...

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by vidso11

11-07-2005|05:28 PM

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create a normal map

how can i create a normal map

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by mc-fleury

11-07-2005|04:20 PM

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Image Sequence

Hi, I know this has been asked before and I tried to do this but it doesnt work on my part. I am trying to matchmove my 3D object to a live...

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by eugenechia

11-07-2005|05:04 AM

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texturing in Maya,exporting in 3DS

Hi folks :D, I got a question, their is anyway to add some texture to a model in Maya, then export it to 3D Studio Max and keep the mapping...

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by IMG4

10-07-2005|11:29 PM

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nurbs sphere seam

I have created a model of earth but for some reason there is a seam which seems to persist regardless of what I do with tesselation and the texture...

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by spacedog

10-07-2005|08:32 PM

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.JMS/.JMP Export - Blitzkrieg for Halo PC

Does anyone know of or have the Blitzkrieg exporter for Maya 5? Its originally a Max 5 plugin, released by Bungi/Gearbox Software to make custom...

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by I-Iybrid

10-07-2005|06:37 PM

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CartoonDog...Poly Creation/Organizing Question

Can someone help me with a question? I did the cartoon dog model as the tutorial shows...even with a little of my own touches as far as appearance...

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by Skeksi

10-07-2005|12:45 PM

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How to make morphing button animations...

http://www.flash4all.de/start.htm Like on this site, is there any tutorial which explains to me how i can make the morphing animation? ;)

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by mumbojumbo_13

10-07-2005|12:13 PM

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Hyper Shading

Hello everyone...First off I'd like to say I really like alot of the stuff I see on this site...But to get to the point....I have a huge problem with...

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by mumbojumbo_13

10-07-2005|12:03 PM

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Applying fur to a lambert shader?

Hello all, After you set the settings you like in the furDescription attribute tab, is it possible to convert this to a file texture which then can...

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by junkyBob

10-07-2005|12:36 AM

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