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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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Advanced Skeleton 5 help

hello, Much as I hated to migrate to Maya after Autodesk killed Softimage for no good reason...here I am. I've got modelling down for the most...

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by Neil78

06-01-2024|10:59 PM

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HumanIK Skeleton Definition Save and Load not working

Hello everyone, please could you help me, I am trying save and load Skeleton Definition preset in HumanIK, when I load it by "Match only selected...

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by bellid

22-08-2023|06:00 AM

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Showreel Update 2022

Hi I would like to share my animation reel for 2022 and would love to get some feed back on it. https://vimeo.com/725361281 Cheers

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by kadan

16-06-2023|05:52 PM

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Disconnected AnimCurves

Hello! I am frequently running into an issue where my animCurves lose connection to their associated nodes. i am using a referenced rig, and it...

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by LisaAnim

23-08-2022|07:21 PM

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Flying ribbon with realistic flutter

Hi, I'm creating an animation where a ribbon follows a path round and round then drops to the ground. I've already experimented with this and got...

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by Blueflash

17-08-2022|03:34 PM

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3ds Max Interactive VR

Autodesk 3ds Max is one of the industry’s leading visualisation platforms, and capable of producing simply stunning photorealistic imagery and...

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by Nasser2022

28-04-2022|11:05 AM

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Connecting facial rig to the IK neck - how to do it?

As the title says, I have a problem connecting my joint-based facial rig to the IK portion of the neck setup. There are no blendshapes, no...

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by EineKleine

02-04-2022|06:57 PM

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Export Rigged & Animated Camera from Maya - Automatic Script & Manual Method

99UZ3pkLVZg This video will specifically look at how to bake camera animations when you have your camera in some sort of rig hierarchy. The...

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by joshoantonio

09-02-2022|02:09 PM

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Studio Library not saving upper body joint info

I've just discovered Studio Library, and getting a tool to save, catalogue and re-employ rig poses would be a game changer. It seems fairly...

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by heiro5

27-07-2021|04:29 AM

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Direction of Joint Chain on Motion Path

I have a joint chain of 60 joints, in a straight line. I want this chain to animate along a motion path. I followed the instructions here,...

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by bollella

08-06-2021|11:06 PM

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rigging walkcycle depending on path langth

hello. i am breaking my head about the issue how to rig a crawling bug moving along a spline. the COG will be path constrained to a spline. how can...

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by mickhah

19-04-2021|12:14 PM

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Parenting camera for pov view.

I want to bring my iclone characters complete with animation into Maya and render a VR scene in redshift. Ill either use alembic or fbx and I want it...

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by Tybomb

11-02-2021|10:24 AM

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Rigging a Whip - problem with connecting controllers

Hi, I am a beginner in rigging , i created a rig for a whip that i need, the animator requested for as little controllers as possible, so i did...

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by royL

30-12-2020|07:52 AM

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Quick rigged model keeps sinking down

Made this simple 3D model for a school project and used the quick-rig tool in Maya But each time I touch the handles it keeps sinking a bit more...

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by JohnJohnJohn

07-12-2020|11:48 AM

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Adding and subtracting vertices from skinweights

Hi guys, So I haven't done any skin weighting for a while, but I went in to attach some joints and what I always used to do was go to paint skin...

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by dre4mer

29-09-2020|01:02 AM

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Rig broken and I can't figure it out

When I select the main controller to rotate my character the hands don't rotate with the character. If I move the character then he moves just fine....

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by yehochanan

30-08-2020|09:02 PM

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Car Rig Motion Path wheels slow down and rotate too fast in curves??

Hello everyone, I need some help with my motion path animation. When a car is following a motion path and at the beggining the car wheels...

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by zoran111

12-07-2020|04:23 PM

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Controlling Rig from Channel Box

Hello, I have a rigged character that is able to be controlled correctly if manipulating the Ctrl Effector directly in the viewport. Doing this...

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by Bcurless

10-01-2020|08:38 PM

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MATCH SKELETON

Hi all, I am working on a crowd scene and the client sent me a bunch of models with varying proportions and skeletons in slightly different poses....

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by LocSp

11-12-2019|03:17 PM

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IK Rigging handle foot toe problem

I've added IK handle to my ankle, ball and toe and then I created a curve for the controller, I parented ik handle to my curve(curve as a parent) and...

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by Ffah1521

16-09-2019|08:59 AM

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FlickerFreeAnimations

Hi, So I have been having this issue for the longest but I have never really been able to conquer this. I am getting heavy flickering in my...

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by murambi

10-09-2019|09:28 AM

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Blendshape with multiple targets, and targerts with multiple in-between targets

This is a blenshape set up I managed to do on another rig a while back but can't recall how to replicate. I have one blendshape (head 0) with...

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by Jack55555

14-08-2019|10:18 AM

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maya animation frame issue

Hi people! I'm new in Maya. So I decided to make a simple animation in Maya.I worked on my project for about 3-5 hours. Everything was fine before I...

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by mars7

14-05-2019|07:15 PM

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Quick and Easy Camera Shake in Maya Tutorial

Adding imperfections to your camera movement helps with realism. So in this video, I'm going to show you have to add subtle imperfections to your...

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by joshoantonio

12-05-2019|08:09 PM