Maya Tutorial – Growing Grass Logo. Paint Effects is Autodesk Maya’s flexible system for interactively painting brush strokes and particle effects on a 2D canvas or on 3D geometry. Preset brushes such as plants, hair, fire, feathers, and others can be used to get amazing effects quickly. This 3d tutorial explains how to create a Maya logo out of growing grass. The focus is on setting and animating the Paint Effects brush and strokes.
The following topics are discussed: Brushes vs. Strokes, Assigning brushes to a stroke, Changing brush parameters, Loading brush settings into the template brush, Making multiple strokes share a single brush, Animating the growth of the grass along the strokes, Using the same strokes with other brushes.
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