Maya Monday: Blood Flow with MASH in Maya 2020

This tutorial from 3D Splanchnic explains how to animate blood flow through veins with Maya 2020, using MASH. MASH is Maya’s motion graphics toolkit. This tutorial comes to us via Lester Banks.

MASH Dynamics No 5. MASH Bias

He talks about a couple of other tutorials. The first he references is from Ian Waters.

He also mentions this nParticle tutorial from Karyn Ho. The tutorial is Simulating Blood Flow in Maya (Tutorial) – nParticles and Fields for Dynamic Flow Simulation

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Medical Animations & Tutorials Roundup for Maya, Cinema 4D, After Effects

There are some interesting inspirations, as well as several tutorials here. There are three MASH tutorials on animating cell division and creating Villi in Maya. Both tutorials are from Emily McDougall. There’s another tutorial from Annie Campbell about creating a simple cell model.

Medical Animations & Tutorials Roundup

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