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Tutorials for Autodesk Maya

Videotutorial Maya realtime render
In this video tutorial for maya, I will explain how to make the shaders in order to complete the realtime render whithout any plugin or imported shaders. This video includes realtime render inside the maya viewport with the new Viewport 2.0 of Autodesk maya 2012. This technique is very helpful when using a larger quantity of poly or nurbs surfaces&n…
Video Tutorial maya modelling a poly table fan
This video tutorial shows step by step various quick modeling techniques including curve extrude, surfaces, poly tube, Smooth, bevel, curve revolve, extrude, and more, to create a polygonal table fan in Autodesk Maya. Since every step is shown in the video, from an empty scene to a complete object creation, this videotutorial for maya is very suitab…
maya tutorial interior illumination with global illumination
Global Illumination :: and Final Gather in Mental Ray for Maya 8.5 videotutorial. Use GI to add light and colour bleeding to your indoor scene with maya and mental ray.This tutorial introduce the user step by step to mental ray's global illumination and final gather capabilities.
maya cloth videotutorial
One of the most difficult effects to achieve in 3d animation is accurate and attractive cloth. From clothes to constraints, cloth is a desirable but not very difficult to simulate. In the following two videotutorials we will create and animate a cloth in maya in a few minutes. Download videotutorial part 1 Download videotutorial part 2
Video tutorial portal light in maya
One of the innovations implemented in new Maya 2008 is the portal light. The portallight is used in interior lighting, is a shader that connects to a area light for channeling rays of the phisical sun + sky that are lost in our interior scene to go to better illuminate areas not exposed to direct sunlight or skylight. Use the mia_portal_light shader to create a portal light to reduce fin…
Video tutorial DOF (depth of field) in maya
This video tutorial show how to create the depth of field in Maya. A simply method is create a distance mesaure tool. parent one locator to the camera and one to an object (only for animations) which lies in the center of your focus. when via the connection editor, connect the distance from the distanceShape to the focus dis…
Video tutorial modeling a screw in maya
This videotutorial show step by step how to make a polygonal screw in maya, starting from a primitive helix. The video tutorial will teach you simple operations like extrude, smooth, and bevel, and some advanced tools like merge edge, merge vertex, split polygon tool, fill hole, reverse normals etc. Those are the results, rendered in mental ray. In this demonstration we go …
Ambient Occlusion (AO) in maya video tutorial
Occlusion map: is generate for showing depth and good effect on your models. Here is a simple tutorial for maya. If you use Maya then it will be very helpful to you. This Video tutorial covers the basics of how to setup the ambient occlusion shader Maya. As with most things in Maya there are probably many different ways to do this but this method works well for me and is reasonably qui…
Video tutorial grass in maya
Got grass? For finish an exterior render project like this usually a realistic grass is a must. But how to do it? In 3d studio max there is a simple shader to make it, in maya the plugin for make the grass is included in maya. Watch this video tutorial to understand how to make photorealistic grass in maya in 3 simple steps. …
Render with IBL (image based lighting) and HDRI in maya
With this video tutorial you will learn the techniques to create shadows under an object with a photorealistic image in the background (IBL) or HDRI. This technique allows you to get very realistic renders in maya and mental ray because the reflections coming from a picture and not from a monocromatic light. The IBL (HDR) is used mainly for redering cars, or small objects such wa…