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MAYA | Particle Basics
Particles are a great world to explore. In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Alvaro Castaneda, well learn how to create particles in very simple ways. We also add collision objects gravity and render them in a liquid like mesh.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Alvaro Castaneda |
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MAYA | Creating Hair in Maya
In this tutorial, Chad Briggs will guide intermediate/experienced Maya users through creating hair with PaintFX. Once created, this hair can be animated and deformed through Maya's dynamics/cloth engines. This tutorial will focus on the creation of the hair.
Tutorial
Chad Briggs |
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MAYA | Texturing, Lighting, and Rendering in Maya
In this tutorial by Nelson Cruz, you will be applying textures to and rendering the wheel that you created last month. The three main areas you will look at are texturing, lighting, and rendering. This is part two of a two part series.
Tutorial
Nelson Cruz |
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MAYA | Tintin VFX Supe Joe Letteri Talks 3D and Mocap
Four-time VFX Oscar-winner Joe Letteri describes the advanced technology behind Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, discussing his own adventures with virtual cameras, motion capture, 3D, and three years of pre-production with the team at Weta Digital.
Feature, People / Interview
Debra Kaufman |
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MAYA | Rendering Motion Vectors out of Maya - Part 1
This Maya video tutorial explains how to install and use a special shader to render motion vectors with Mental Ray. This process will be useful to RE:Vision Effects users in Shake, Maya and Max Composite, Nuke, Fusion, After Effects, Combustion and others.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Arkadiy Demchenko |
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MAYA | Autodesk Maya: Digital Molecular Matter (DMM)
In this Autodesk Maya 2012 tutorial, Creative COW leader Michael Hurwicz looks at Digital Molecular Matter (DMM), a plug-in for creating shatter, destruction and deformation effects. DMM is now included in Maya 2012.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Michael Hurwicz |
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MAYA | Maya 2011 Bezier Curves
In this Maya tutorial, Michael Hurwicz provides an introduction to
Bezier curves, a new feature in Maya 2011 which allow you to
create curves the way you do with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator
or Photoshop.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Michael Hurwicz |
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MAYA | Maya 2011: Camera Sequencer
In this tutorial, Michael Hurwicz shows you how to use the new Camera Sequencer in Maya 2011 to import an animatic sequence from Sony Vegas 9.0 using AAF (Advanced Authoring Format).
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Michael Hurwicz |
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MAYA | Maya Logo part 1
In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW contributor Alvaro Castaneda, we begin by tracing the logo in a vector app, then use that to start building the logo, using Maya to bring it to life. This is part 1 of a 2 part series Creating a Logo in Maya.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Alvaro Castaneda |
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MAYA | Maya Logo part 2
In this Maya video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Alvaro Castaneda, we add shaders to our geometry to later light and render our final logo. This is part 2 of a 2 part series Creating a Logo in Maya.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Alvaro Castaneda |
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MAYA | Half-tone Effect
In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Alvaro Castaneda, we will create a nice looking effect in Maya that emulates the half-tone print effect. This tutorial shows that Maya can create looks not traditionally associated with 3D rendering applications.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Alvaro Castaneda |
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MAYA | Maya 2011: Assigning Invisible Faces
Michael Hurwicz demonstrates the new "Assign Invisible Faces" feature
in Maya 2011, making one face of a cube invisible but still very much
"there" when it comes to a smoothing operation performed on the cube.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Michael Hurwicz |
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MAYA | Animating a Ribbon with Maya
One common request or problem i've seen several Maya users stumble across is how to properly animate a ribbon that zips across the screen and is flexible enough to bend and twist in various ways. While it sounds simple in concept, it may not be as straightforward and obvious as one would think to set this up properly with the maximum animation capabilities. In this article, Chad Briggs demonstrates a solution that he came up with in response to a recent gig.
Tutorial
Chad Briggs |
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MAYA | Impressionist Paint FX using Fur
Have you ever thought that you'd like to create something like a painted effect in Maya, but that you didn't want to use Paint Effects? In this tutorial, Christopher Cherubini demonstrates using Fur to create an Impressionist look to the scene. The theory behind this method is to drive the color of your shader, and in turn your fur without lights, putting all the lighting control into the shader.
Tutorial
Christopher Cherubini |
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MAYA | Learning Maya 5: Dynamics
CreativeCOW leader John David Hutton takes a thorough look at Learning Maya 5 | Dynamics from Sybex and concludes with... ''this is definitely a worthwhile book for any Maya artist interested in learning dynamics."
Review
John David Hutton |
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MAYA | Learning Maya 7 Book Bundle
CreativeCOW leader John David Hutton takes a thorough look at the Learning Maya 7 Book Bundle and concludes with ''...I give this 3 book bundle a solid 5 cows for a clean, organized, thoughtful layout and instruction set. They contain an awe-inspiring bundle of textures and materials, programs, videos and tutorials. You won't want to miss them.''
Review
John David Hutton |
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MAYA | Managing Projects
In this Maya video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Alvaro Castaneda, youll learn why is important to keep everything nice and organized into projects. Well also learn other ways to create folders by using the mighty command line / shell.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Alvaro Castaneda |
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MAYA | Pullback from Earth to Outer Space
Professional motion graphics artist, Greg Neumayer, shares his experience creating the zoom out from earth to outer space effect using Maya and After Effects. Greg walks you through how he solved the transition problems associated with this large scale effect where realism can be very difficult to achieve.
Tutorial
Greg Neumayer |
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MAYA | MAYA Shelves
Everything you wanted to know about MAYA shelves (but were afraid to ask). In this tutorial Aharon Charnov will show how to use every aspect of shelf customization. Also included in this video tutorial is how to add existing tools to shelves, how to organize tools for optimum use, how to create new tools with mel scripts, how to label mel created buttons, and how to create custom shelf icons.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Aharon Charnov |
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