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HDR enviroment map

Create your own HDR environment map in Maya/mental ray for image based lighting

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Generating and using Normal Maps in Maya

If you're familiar with normal maps check directly here for a faster application of the method described down here using my rayDisplace plugin.

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Mental Ray Contours

Author of this article gathered some info from many resources and put it into one detailed tutorial which is about Mental Ray Contours in Maya software.

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Growing a stormy tree with paint effects

Here’s how to grow a tree in Maya using a Paint Effects Brush. This assumes that you have a working knowledge of the Maya interface (you know how to access the Attribute Editor and you know what the Channel Box looks like).

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Creating an Animated Flag

This is a tutorial on creating an animated flag using the built in tools of Maya without having to resort to the memory intensive Cloth simulator.

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Maya Particle Instancer

The following is a brief description of all the settings available for the instancer in the particle shape Attribute Editor in Maya.

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Motion Path Camera

Say you need to create a scene where you have a camera that follows a motion path and holds focus on the subject until a given point in time and then leaves our subject to focus on another part of the scene. In this tutorial, a sphere will be our subject in the shot. We will use two locators as our “Home” and “Target” aim constraint for our camera.

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Dynamic Rope

This tutorial will show you how to create a dynamic rope using softbodies in Maya.

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Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Terrain Displacement

In this tutorial you will learn how to create the image seen (tutorial thumb) using displacement in Mental Ray for Maya.

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Creating a Sky Dome

This tutorial will teach you how to create and texture a sky dome in Maya.

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Hypershade Tabs

This tutorial will show you how to create a tab in the Hypershade which is mapped to a reference materials library that you have saved on your machine or a network drive.

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Organic Modeling and Animation - Part Two (IK Setup)

While it is simple to set up a skeleton that can walk in a straight line, it is another thing to set up a skeleton which can do anything. Check this tutorial if you want to add a new depth to your knowledge of maya animation.

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Dynamic Constraints

The following concept tutorial will be covering Dynamic Constraints for sled or Star Wars pod type rigs.

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Surface Emitted Particles on SoftBody Tenticles

The following concept tutorial will be covering Surface Emitted Particles on SoftBody tenticles to create a spiraling array particle system for futuristic gun blasts or whatever.

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PaintFX Hair

This is very short tutorial about the most important things about using PFX for hair.

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Creating a Missile Trail

This Tutrial will Teach you how to create a Missile Trail using Maya, u will expirience The volumetric Cloud Shader, it's surface shading options, and other qualities of the volumetric cloud shader.

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Creating the logo effect from Matrix

In this tutorial we are going to reproduce some of the logo effect of the film "Matrix" using maya particles and expressions.

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Seamless Modeling in Maya part I - An Introduction

This tutorial is result of author's research work in the area of character modeling and animation.

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Seamless Modeling in Maya part II - Heads, Hands, Cloth

This part 2 of seamless modeling in maya tutorial is result of author's research work in the area of character modeling and animation.

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Seamless Modeling in Maya part III - Dogs Body

This part 3 of seamless modeling in maya tutorial is result of author's research work in the area of character modeling and animation. In this part he'll go over modeling of Dogs Body.

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