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Paint effects animation in Maya

Create animations with Paint Effects and how to simulate some real forces in your scenes and also some growing simulations.

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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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Making Mushrooms

In this tutorial we will make mushroom tree using NURBS, Extrude and Sculpt Geometry tool.

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Coffee Cup

This tutorial makes things easier and following step-by-step rules teaches you how to create a coffee cup in Maya. Shapes and bordures may vary,it`s all up to your creativity. The basics have tips on planning and designing illustrations for a simple coffee cup making the Maya program the most suitable for such attempt.

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Maya Tutorial Muscle Rigging Tutorial

Maya tutorial to create muscles that will contract and expand a muscle a few frames before the limb moves. A simple technique to simulate weight & tension.

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Maya 7: Compass

This lesson demonstrates how to use a handy viewing widget called the Compass to stylishly transition into alternate camera angles. In this lesson we will learn how to: Use the compass to transition to different camera views Frame selected objects with the compass Increase the speed of camera transitions Using the compass is a quicker alternative to using the predefined bookmarks.

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Using Projection Mapping in Maya

Projection mapping is feature that allows you to project 2d texture with object called placement node, so you don’t actually need to worry about UV’s on the objects.

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Table Cloth material

Check out this tutorial overview and learn to make a simple,stylish table cloth. Yet another useful object. Both for beginners and skilled experts this guideline`s illustrations comply every demand.This short text supported by excellent images is an easy access to a process of making.

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Creating Football ball

Creat Creating Football ball in easy way.

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Flying butterfly animation - Tutorial for beginners

Flying butterfly animation - Tutorial for beginners

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Using particle Speed

There are situations where a phenomenon's velocity or speed is related to it's behavior or appearance. Perhaps the incandecence increases as a particle moves faster... or the color changes from blue to red. Perhaps some dust is resting on an object, but once it gets blown away it also begins to dissipate and fade. These effects can be achieved by understanding how to reference particle speed, which is not a default particle attribute.

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HDR Lighting in Maya using HDR Shop

HDR Lighting in Maya using HDR Shop, and the LightGen Plugin: The barebones approach to quickly get started with HDR lighting

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Particle Collision Effects

Learn how to emit new particles when one particle collides with a surface. In this lesson you will learn about: Colliding particles with geometry objects Various collision factors like resilience and friction Creating Particle Collision events for consequential particle behavior

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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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How to build/texture wilting leaf.

This tutorial is a breakdown of a wilting leaf shader. It is appropriate for advanced Maya users with basic knowledge of how shading connections work. Enjoy.

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Maya Cloth 3

Creating Cloth using maya cloth more: xeav.net

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Modeling Cartoon Monster – One Eye

Hello there… in this maya tutorial we will learn how to modeling cartoon monster. This monster I give name of One Eye. You can apply my wireframe image to reference.

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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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Dynamic Camera via Maya Hair

Hand keying steady cam effects can be a drag, and we used to have to set up complex soft-body rigs to simulate it. Here is a way to set up a dynamic camera utilizing Maya's dynamic curves that's fast, easy, and fun.

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Recording Camera Movements

You can animate your camera based on your mouse movements during playback. This lesson will show us how to set this up. The principle behind this lesson is that changes to values of any attribute connected to a record node are stored as keyframes when the playback’s recording system is switched on. Using this idea with cameras, we can record camera motions. We’ll learn how to: Connect record nodes to our camera with recordAttr commands Playback the scene to record attribute changes

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