Modeling in Autodesk Maya

Modeling in Autodesk MAYA. This brief handout gives a short introduction to Autodesk MAYA. Only the most important and basic commands are listed here. Autodesk MAYA is a very robust and complicated software package. Object transformation and manipulation tools: All objects can be manipulated at the component and sub-component level. Manual transformation of the object can be achieved by manipulating the “control handles”, by using the Transforma…

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Sculpted Prims with Autodesk Maya – Modeling, Texturing, Exporting

Sculpted Prims with Autodesk Maya – Modeling, Texturing, Exporting. This free pdf document shows you how to use the sculpted prims tool with autodesk Maya. A Sculpted Prim, or sculptie, is a prim whose shape is determined by an array of x, y, z coordinates stored as RGB values in an image file (a Sculpt Texture or Sculpt Map). Sculpted prims can be used to create more complex, organic shapes that were not previously possible with the Second Life…

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Autodesk Maya Tutorial : Charater Animation

Autodesk Maya Tutorial : Charater Animation. This character animation tutorial is designed to show you the exporting data process from Maya to Virtools for a character animation scene. It uses the Maya to Virtools plug in. Even though this is a basic multi animation scene, you are bound to have a working knowledge of Maya’s joint, IK and texturing tools, as it is not a ‘how to use Maya’ tutorial. Before exporting, it helps you in the understandi…

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Autodesk Maya Tutorial : Muscle Advanced Techniques

The Maya Muscle Advanced Techniques tutorials assume that you have a basic familiarity with the main tools and features of Maya, as well as basic Maya rigging knowledge. At the end of Maya tutorials, you should have a good feel for how to use the Maya Muscle skin deformer for your own characters and projects. This lesson shows you how to set up an object to be deformed by the Muscle deformer with bones and joints. In this lesson you will prepare…

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Autodesk Maya Modeling Tutorial : Mouse Embryo

Autodesk Maya Modeling Tutorial : Mouse Embryo. This document is tutorial about Polygon & Subdivision Surface Modeling in Maya : The Mouse Embryo. The modeling tutorial complete with picture that you can follow easily. This is the basic autodesk Maya modeling tutorial. The basic strategy behind this method is to create as much of the basic forms of the object as possible with as little geometry as necessary. Be cheap with your geometry, onl…

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