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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Maya 3D Tutorial : Creating Photo Realistic 3D Model

Maya 3D Tutorial : Creating Photo Realistic 3D Model. Architectural elements –detail of a skyscraper. This tutorial shows how to create photo realistic 3d models from a digital image processed in Photoshop. You will also learn how to use Illustrator paths in Maya, texturing, basic lighting and rendering, how to apply textures and how to parent the building components. You can use also this tutorial to recreate smaller details or 3D objects from…

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Maya Tutorial : Basic Texturing Tutorial

This tutorial introduces the basic texturing concepts for Autodesk Maya. It is highly recommended that you first read the tutorials Interface, Navigation and Transformation Tools, Creating and Manipulating Polygon Primitives and Basic Polygon Modelling. You should also read Introduction to UV Mapping before attempting this tutorial, as it covers how to prepare 3D models for textures. Download PDF Maya Tutorial : Basic Texturing…

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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 : Basic Walk Cycle

Autodesk Maya Tutorial : Basic Walk Cycle. This tutorial is intended to teach new animation students a few basic animation techniques and workflow based on fundamental animation principles using Maya and a free character setup named walkingBall_v2.3 created by the author. This character setup or “rig” has many useful features without being overwhelming to newer students. This tutorial assumes you have a basic understanding of how to navigate the…

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