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MAYA full body IK (FBIK)

Now quickly and easily create natural looking poses and animation for your biped and quadruped characters with the new full body IK (FBIK) in Maya. Maya's full body IK is based on the Alias® HumanIK® solver used in Alias® MotionBuilder. It Makes Maya rigging and Posing Characters Faster, easier and more accurate.

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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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Flying butterfly animation - Tutorial for beginners

In this tutorial, we will make a simple butterfly and animate it. Follow the steps as shown below.

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Learn Maya 3D Nonlinear Deformers Part VI – Wave Deformer

This is last series from Nonlinear Deformer series. Wave deformer hardly suited for making animation expanding ring of ripple. To apply wave I recommend that you to apply high resolution object.

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Learn Nonlinear Deformers Part II- Flare

At this tutorial we will learn how to using Flare Deformer for modeling.

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Learn Maya 3D Nonlinear Deformers Part III – Sine

After studying Bend and Flare Deformer now it's the moment learning Sine. Differs from Flare Deformer, where I apply Flare just for modeling (has not got idea to apply Flare for animation). For Sine, I only apply Sine just for animation, but possible Sine applicable to assist modeling process (I have never tried applies Sine for modeling).

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Creating a soft-body flag in Maya

In this tutorial you will learn to create a flag using soft bodies.

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Learn Maya 3D Nonlinear Deformers Part I – Bend

This is the first series out of six series which I plan. Nonlinear Deformers consisted of Bend, Flare, Sine, Squash, Twist, and Wave. Deformer earns you to apply for animation or modeling. Bend Deformer has 4 parameter is earning you to arrange, all this parameters haves the character of float (not just 1 or 0).

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Ultra-Fast Studio Character Animation Via MEL

This is a MEL program that automatically animates Biped, Quadraped, Bird, Centaur, and a Spider without using IK or any of that other crap that takes forever to set up . . . In this case, all you do is click a button on the shelf, choosing a biped or quadraped, and it creates the skeleton for the character AND when you press the play button the character walks or runs. The quadraped also hops or gallops. It is all done via MEL, so it does not require any fooling with IK, and it has "Stabilization" (it adds bones that allow the character to move freely without major distortions in the character skin), which minimizes having to paint skin weights. http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/character/Walkerman-Version-4514.html

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Maya Cloth 1

Creating Cloth using maya cloth more: xeav.net

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Making eyelid rig with driven keys and expressions using Autodesk Maya

Here’s simple eye region model with eyeball. Goal for this tutorial is to make few blend shapes for 4 position of eye and drive that blend shapes automatically as eye ball rotating. Also on the end of tutorial we will learn how to make expressions and rig to control rotation of eye over translation of one nurbs circle. Follow the steps as shown below.

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how to create chain earring

animation chain earring with rigid body

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Learn Maya 3D Nonlinear Deformers Part IV – Squash

After you studies Sine Deformer now it's the time studies Squash Deformer. Same as Sine deformer I have not experience using squash for modeling, so I don't have modeling tutorial for Squash Deformer.

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Maya Cloth 3

Creating Cloth using maya cloth more: xeav.net

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grab and move an object

tutorial how to animate grab and move an object

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how to animate extrude

make extrude be animation

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Movable Pivot Control in Maya

This control is meant to be under the root control of a character, making it easy to adjust the center of gravity in which a character can flip or spin. This method creates one very simple to set up control that can rotate the character around any center rather then creating a hierarchy of nodes to rotate at different centers of gravity.

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Rotating Wheels on a Car

The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to rotate the wheels on a car so they follow the pace of the car as it move. By doing it this way, you will get a more accurate result without setting numerous keyframes. To do this, we will use the distance tool, set driven key, and infinity cycles in the graph editor.

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Maya Cloth 2

Creating Cloth using maya cloth more: xeav.net

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Learn Maya 3D Nonlinear Deformers Part V – Twist Deformer

Now we will learn about Twist Deformer. Twist is tool which very simple among other nonlinear deformers. Actually I seldom apply twist for modeling or animation. But I have example using twist for modeling and hopefully this example earns good for you.

Rated: with 992 hits  Added on: Jun 05, 2008