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Baking Ambient Occlusion Using Mental Ray

Ambient occlusion can be very useful for adding details to shadows of your images. But also it can be extremely expensive to calculate for every...

Views: 940 | | by Sean
Maya - Effects

Baking an Ambient Occlusion

This tutorial covers the basics of how to setup and bake ambient occlusion maps in Maya 8.

Views: 696 | | by Jason
Maya - Textures and Materials

Free Maya Video Tutorials by Dover Studio

1) Creating a photo-realistic leaf using stencil maps 2) Sculpting a flag with Maya Artisan 3) Creating a reflective metallic surface using an...

Views: 649 | | by Source
Maya - Textures and Materials

Making Sword using Nurbs

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to make sword with some decoration detail. Everything will be real geometry (no bump or displacement...

Views: 738 | | by Brad
Maya - Modeling

First subdivision polygon maya 8

Video tutorial on subdivision in polygons: maya v8 animation

Views: 793 | | by Marry
Maya - Modeling

Extruding Text/Curves in Maya

This tutorial explains how to extrude curves into 3d Objects.

Views: 634 | | by Ben
Maya - Modeling

Creating and Saving Custom Shelves in Maya

This is a short tutorial demonstrating how to create shelf buttons and how to save those custom shelves embedded within the Maya file type.

Views: 660 | | by Colin
Maya - Modeling

--Maya-- How to model using some non-linear deformers

This is a short tutorial on how to tweak out simple geometry into really cool forms using a non-linear deformer. It sounds complex...but it really...

Views: 694 | | by Slicer
Maya - Modeling

Sprite - Based Particle Trees

Sprite - Based Particle Tree offer a much better looking tree in real time games. Maya Paint Effects Tutorial.

Views: 768 | | by Source
Maya - Modeling

HDRI - Maya / Mental Ray

An detailed introduction of HDRI map and rendering techniques in Maya.

Views: 983 | | by Jarry
Maya - Lighting

Final Gathering in Maya MentalRay

Maya MentalRay Final Gathering Introduction and Tips.

Views: 958 | | by Amy
Maya - Lighting

Character Rigging in Maya - Part 1

This series of tutorials will help you understand what and how to do character rigging in Maya. But the principles can also be applied to any other...

Views: 949 | | by Steve
Maya - Character Setup

Character Rigging in Maya - Part 2

Second Part of Character Rigging Tutorials in Maya from Steven Tubbrit

Views: 882 | | by Nick
Maya - Character Setup

Character Rigging In Maya - Part 3

Character Rigging In Maya Continued (Part 3) - The Head Control

Views: 940 | | by Slicer
Maya - Character Setup

Falling leaves with nCloth and Paint Effects

Use latest simulation module nCloth and Paint Effects in Maya 8.5 to create falling leaves animation.

Views: 897 | | by Mathew
Maya - Effects

Rotating Wheels on a Car - Maya Tutorial

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.

Views: 676 | | by Stephen
Maya - Animation

Displacement Power in Reyes Mode-True Displacement

Examples of True Displacement with Pixar Renderman. But the same principles can be applied to other renders as well.

Views: 903 | | by Jason
Maya - Lighting

Chinese Dragons - Character Design Tutorial

To design a good character animation, an artist must have a good understanding of the composition of the work, and a strong ability to perceive.

Views: 631 | | by David
Maya - Modeling

UV Smoothing in Maya

UV layout techniques to solve UV distortion problems caused by polygon smoothing in Maya.

Views: 658 | | by Sarah
Maya - Textures and Materials

Photorealistic model of a nut in Maya

This tutorial will go through the steps to create a photorealistic model of a nut. It requires that you have some basic modeling skills.

Views: 665 | | by Nick
Maya - Modeling