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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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Baking Character Animation

Ummm, the question's pretty much wrapped up in the subject. How do I go about baking a character animation? A bit more complexity. I'm trying to...

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by mtmckinley

07-02-2004|03:15 AM

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Starting animation

I'm looking to start doing some animations and have a few questions that I hope someone can answer. These are questions I haven't been able to answer...

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by Alan

05-02-2004|07:27 PM

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Mirroring Lattice Deformer

I just created a lattice around a very specific set of CVs on the left hand of a character, and now I'd like to create a lattice for the exact same...

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by Gun-Kata

02-02-2004|11:42 PM

Replies: 12

exporting/importing weight maps

hello again. I have a new problem in that i want to change the position of my bones since skinning and a little weighting. I have followed...

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by matmonkfish

28-01-2004|06:41 PM

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Cant move my tracks around??

Hi all, Here are my Tank tracks animated but I cant seem to move them around without it all blowing apart. why? cheers all here is the file...

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by Alan

27-01-2004|05:32 PM

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wrap deformers?

Hi, I just finished building a model and made a skeleton. I have been told that i need to make a wrap deformer of the model and than add the...

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by Kurt

26-01-2004|08:58 PM

Replies: 3

Noob .avi file size reduce... | Page: 1 2

Hi, I have just created the "Rocket" project from a book tutorial... Maybe some of u know which one...Savvy..? Anyway, I noticed that...

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by Pony

24-01-2004|02:43 AM

Replies: 15

nunchucks

I want to animate a character using nunchucks... how would I set up the nunchucks? is there a dynamics set I need to use so that the nunchucks swing...

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by doodle

22-01-2004|12:30 AM

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Question: Keyframing Question Inside

Hey Guys and Gals, Is there an easier way of moving keyframes around on the animation bar? I mean I try to click and drag but nothing..I did...

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by Kurt

21-01-2004|10:29 PM

Replies: 3

Maya blend shapes using poser!

I have an idea which would be great if it could work but I need someone with some knowhow to tell me it's possible or not. Im using some Poser...

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by stephen.h1

19-01-2004|11:40 PM

Replies: 4

re-rigging question

hi, I've setup my character with just a basic skeleton, but now, after the fact, I've decided to go back and create a real skeleton and muscles and...

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by dannyngan

16-01-2004|02:18 AM

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root rotation axes ???

yoho i got some probs with rotation direction of my jointchains. i want all the joints 2 "look" in the some rotation direction but even i creat a...

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by revenant

12-01-2004|09:01 AM

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mirroring blend shape

Hello, I'm trying to create the blend shapes for my character.. I've tried to do one eye then duplicate that face with a x scale value of -1 do...

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by mtmckinley

11-01-2004|07:35 PM

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ik spline dependent on joint limitation?

hoyo i just started 2 work on a joint skelleton n if done limitations for the joints similar to human movement limitations, but if i create a...

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by revenant

10-01-2004|10:57 AM

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Attaching an object

Hey guys...gotta question...i would like to animate a lo poly game character and the character will be wielding a pole...i want the character to run...

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by Chipper

08-01-2004|02:24 PM

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Muscle contractoin with S.D.K's and blends

hey, mike was goin to do this in his next character rigging tut. but never got round to it. -- basically what i want to do is when the elbow moves...

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by mumbojumbo_13

08-01-2004|11:37 AM

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Newbie: Need "grow" a rigged tentacle?

I am trying to create an effect in which, over a number of frames, a tentacle grows from a character which is then used as an extra arm (kinda...

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by rich

08-01-2004|09:19 AM

Replies: 5

channel box attribute colours?

Hi Ive just recently upgraded to using maya 5 from 4 and have noticed that the colours of the attribute change when setting keys, when animating. I...

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by rich

06-01-2004|09:00 AM

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Boxing render from a few months back

A HOO finaly figured out how to compress my animations down small enough to put up renders... I was able to get all them nice and small the baseball...

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by Kurt

02-01-2004|01:01 AM

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Flowing Sleeves

Hi, Anyone got a way of rigging a human character with flowing sleeves - like batwing sleeves, only they're wide at the wrist as well. I'm...

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by JulianBT

31-12-2003|07:47 PM

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Set Driven Key: problem with two attributes driving a single object

:banghead: Here's one that I can't find in the docs (so far...). I have a joint which rotates in X and Z (not in Y). I have an object whose...

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by JulianBT

31-12-2003|02:12 PM

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bake keyframes?

Hi all, Anybody know if it's possible to bake out the animation that the graph editor creates when you use ' cycle with offset ' so say i've got a...

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by ade90054

29-12-2003|12:20 PM

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pick something up?

okay. I have a character that who's body is modelled in a single mesh, and I want him to pick up a ball and then throw it. Pretty straight forward,...

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by skyzeyez

29-12-2003|12:43 AM

Replies: 3

Animation Controls

Hi all, hope everyone had a good christmas :) Just a quick question, does anybody know how I can add my character animation controls to a layer...

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by ade90054

28-12-2003|11:11 PM