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Tutorials
Maya Monday: More Redshift to Maya
Tutorials include Redshift for beginners tutorials from Jesus Fernandez.
- Redshift for beginners - 01 Physical Light
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Creating a Snow Shader with Redshift and Autodesk 3ds Max
With the hot weather in the northern hemisphere this week, cook down mentally with this free lesson from Proteus VFX school...
More...Maya Monday: Redshift and Maya, part 2
Redshift has several tutorials on working with Redshift in Maya. Here is the second batch from their YouTube Channel to...
More...How to Work With Displacements in Redshift Maya
Saul Espinosa, a Matte Painter and Environmental Artist, walks you through everything you need to know about working with...
More...WiFi Signal from MASH
Here's another from Lee at Maya Short Rounds. The second tutorial on the page was featured on Maya Monday.
More...Maya 2017 MASH Tutorial - Scatter balloons and vertex color in Arnold
Edge-CGI 3D Tutorials and more! shows you how to scatter colors around a huge group of balloons. You can recreate Up!
More...Maya + Python
Knowing a bit of Python scripting and how to use Python scripts can really help your workflow in Maya. Here are a few...
More...In Depth: Render Farms / Network Rendering, 2018 Edition
In 2015 we produced a very popular article on Render Farms and Network Rendering. A lot has changed since then, so this is...
More...Procedural Shading with Maya & V-Ray
Michael Cauchi takes you through a 9 step process to using V-Ray and Maya to generate reusable assets and perfect your...
More...Maya XGen and Interactive Grooming Tutorial Roundup
Maya 2017 Update 3 brought the interactive grooming tools and they’re really powerful! With XGen, you can create natural...
More...5 Tutorials about Creating Glass in Maya with Arnold’s aiStandardSurface
There have been multiple times in my career when I’ve been asked to create glass, whether it be for a product video, or...
More...Medical Animations & Tutorials Roundup for Maya, Cinema 4D, After Effects
The human body is still such an enigma and there are so many technical, yet beautiful, 2D and 3D animations that help to...
More...How Physically Based Rendering Shaders Work
There are several tutorials here. In the first, Meghdad Asadi breaking down how Physically Based Rendering shaders (PBR)...
More...8 Ultra Useful Maya Tips for Beginners, in Under 4 Minutes
I’ve been learning Maya for about a year now, but I’ve still barely scratched the surface. If you’re in the same boat,...
More...Rendering in Maya
This page contains several tutorials about installing Arnold Render, render settings you should use, saving the render and...
More...Modeling Basics in Maya 2018
Spicer McLeroy's tutorial. This is included in Maya Monday: Modeling Basics in 2018, so scroll down the page to the last...
More...Autodesk Maya 2018 - Soda Can Tutorial
If you're new to Maya, here's a quick tutorial to get your started on modeling a soda can. This is in the article, Maya...
More...How to model a 3D Pillow in Maya 2018 in 5 minutes
Mike Hermes redoes an old video with Maya 2018 and you can't get much faster and easier than this! This is in a Maya...
More...Maya 2018: Comprehensive Review of Modeling Improvements
My Oh Maya dives a bit deeper into Modeling improvements. Watch and learn. Scroll down the page to the second video.
More...Modeling Basics in 2018
Sculpting, Quad Draw, Bridge with Symmetry, Curve Warp Deformer, MASH, and much more are covered in these videos that will...
More...Turn a 2D Image into a 3D Mesh in Maya
PlatinumRyan explains this simple process of converting a flat image into a 3 dimensional mesh.
More...Understanding Depth Of Field in Arnold and Maya
This is a free excerpt from a course from Mograph Plus and Kamel Khezri. Learn about how to set up Depth of Field properly...
More...How to make Snowy Object in Maya
How to make Snowy Object in Maya - This tutorial is originally in Korean but is great quality so don't fear a language...
More...Maya Snow Tutorial
This one, from 3DYee Modeling and 3D Tutorials, has no voice over so follow along visually.
More...MtoA 206 | Snow and Ice | Material series using Arnold 5 with Maya 2018
Arvid Schneider puts out some fantastic Maya tutorials and this one seems especially seasonally appropriate, as I look out...
More...The New MASH Dynamics Node in Maya 2018, Part 3
This is the last in our series on the brand new MASH Dynamics Node in the latest Maya release, which came out at the end...
More...The New MASH Dynamics Node in Maya 2018, Part 2
Happy Eclipse Day! I’m on a trip now viewing the eclipse in Totality, so I’ve queued this one up for you. It’s part 2 of our...
More...The New MASH Dynamics Node in Maya 2018
There are some great new motion graphics features in Maya 2018 including new MASH Nodes, such as MASH Dynamics Node, MASH...
More...The New UV Editor in Maya 2018
In any 3D application that I’ve learned, working with UVs has always been the most daunting for me. In Maya 2017 Update 3,...
More...Tutorial #6 - Curvature Node & Layering Noise by Saul Espinos
In the video, he references the Redshift 2 Maya - Tutorial #6 - Curvature Node & Layering Noise by Saul Espinosa. It is...
More...Medical Animation Tutorial - Creating a simple cell model in Maya
Annie Campbell (a relative of Nicks?) explains how to create red blood cells with Maya and After Effects. Scroll down the...
More...Burning Question: Medical Animations
The human body is still such an enigma and there are so many technical, yet beautiful, 2D and 3D animations that help to...
More...Where Did Arnold Go?
I ran into a little problem after updating to Maya 2017. Arnold Standard Shader was missing! If this happens to you, this...
More...Live Tutorial: Working with Arnold 5
Arvid Schneider explains lighting and shading a scene from start to finish with Arnold 5. "I am using an arnold learning...
More...Arnold Render 5 tips and tricks for faster renders
Arnold For Maya Tips Tricks Webinar May 11, 2017
John Paul Giancarlo, M&E Technical Specialist for South Europe, based in...
4 Legged Animals: Quadruped Locomotion Tutorial
So, what if you're animating a 4 legged critter instead of a bi-ped? It's double the fun! Felix Sputnik explains how to...
More...Female Walk Cycle - Workflow Tutorial
Another from Chiara Porri, this time focusing on the walk cycle of the female of the species. [Via Lester Banks]
More...Run Cycle Tips
Chiara Porri has been an animator for over a decade and in this video she gives some great advice on creating a run cycle...
More...A Common Mistake when Animating Walkcycles in Maya
Brian Horgan tells you what NOT to do when animating walk cycles. This is extremely useful information, especially if...
More...Animation for Videogames tutorial: Creating a character animation set in Maya
This is the third part of a series of tutorials by James Marijeanne. He talks about the pre-vis process, which is...
More...Creating a Walk Cycle in Maya
In 2015 I wrote an article about how to create a walk cycle with several tutorials and examples, plus, some animals, not...
More...IK: Better Managing Pole Vectors on an IK Chain in Maya
This is another via Lester Banks and is from the rigging artist Giovanna Coutinho and she talks about how to set up an...
More...Character Animation: An Alternative Way to Animate a Foot Roll
Brian Horgan put together this informative tutorial and says, "A look at how the FootRoll attribute on IK leg controls...
More...IK: Rigging a Bird with IK Handles and Curves in Maya 2016
From Mike Hermes: "In this Maya 2016 rigging tutorial video I will show you how to create a simple bird rig including...
More...Character modeling: Bat, parts 1 and 2
Part 1 is about the concept art and part 2 is modeling.
More...Quick Rigging and Skinning a Character in Maya 2017
From 3D Tutorials: "CGI 3D Tutorials : Quick Rigging and Skinning a Character in Maya 2017. This tutorial shows you how to...
More...How To Make A 2D Animation Or Cartoon in Maya
From TunnelvizionTV: "In this Maya 2017 tutorial I show you how you can use Maya to create a 2d animation or cartoon. You...
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