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Getting started with MentalRay Final Gather

This tutorial was designed to teach anyone who is interested in rendering with Mental Ray's Final Gather but was either scared to learn or simply didn't think they had the time.

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Modeling a Diamond

This tutorial teaches to model a diamond.

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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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3D Short Production Process - The Making of Dragon Slayer

Dragonslayer is a 3D animated fantasy short film of 8 min. length. The Project was completed during a period of 24 months.

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extrude the face of a cube using a curve (video tutorial)

The tutorial shows how to extrude the face of a polygon using a curve (Maya video tutorial)

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3D animation tutorial

Maya 3D animation software tutorial on rigging a piston using constraints

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Creating Releastic Candle Flames

Making believable candle flames is like a challenge for Maya rookies. In this tutorial we will walk you through the process of creating realistic looking candle flames. Here we will use multiple point lights that will simulate the candle flames. We will also play with shaders to get nice effect.

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Creating a spaceship fleet using particle instance

Particles are one of greatest features in Maya. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to use particle instancer to create fleet of spaceships flying across the planes. Also I’m going to show you how to use events to crash spaceship.

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Blastcode Introduction

Wanna blow something away? Here is your chance to do it in style!

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Tips for Managing 3D Animation Projects

Before you start a new 3d animation project. Good plan of project management will save you a lot of time. This article provides some good tips of that.

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Hoggle Head Creation

Why so many different programs? I look programs as tools in a tool chest. Even when it comes to modeling, I'll work with the best, or my favorite, features of each. Whenever you are recreating a character or person that has, or does exist in some form (even as a puppet), it's important to collect as much reference material and images as you can. While the internet yielded some decent pictures of Hoggle, the best images came from viewing the "Labyrinth" DVD and taking screen captures. I tried to find good front and side views to use the the orthogonal windows of the modeling program. Below is a collage of reference images I used.

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rendering glass in mentalray

in this tutorial we are rendering a glass using mr shader.

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Modelling a Hammer in Maya

In this lesson, you'll learn simple polygonal modeling techniques. You'll create a hammer starting from a polygonal cube.

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Creating a Spaceship Fleet Using Particle Instancing in Maya

Particles are one of the greatest features in Maya. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to use the particle instancer to create a fleet of spaceships flying across the planes. Also I'm going to show you how to use events to crash the spaceship.

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Using Sun and Sky in Mental Ray

With Maya 8.5 Mental Ray got some new fancy options and modes. One of them is Sun and Sky system. I’m going to guide you through some of new features.

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Maya To XAML- Exporting a Character with Textures

This tutorial illustrates the Maya To XAML plug-in, emphasing successful export of model data with textures. Please note that the plug-in is still in the development beta and still requires a small amount of cleanup before you have the ability to export model and textures.

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Car Modeling - New Minicooper

how to modeling car - new minicooper...

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Rendering in Layers in Maya

This tutorial shows you how to use render layers in maya for composition of the final image.

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Creating A Missile Animation in Maya Using Instancers

In this tutorial we will animate a group of missiles being shot towards the sky using the 'Instancers' features in Maya.

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How to change your Startupscreen

Learn how to change Maya's start-up screen.

Rated: with 2481 hits  Added on: Oct 18, 2005