In this Maya tutorial we will be learn techniques, workflows and best practices for use with Maya’s HumanIK (HIK) toolset. Throughout these lessons we will be learning some of the MEL commands needed to add HIK to a character rigging pipeline. Along the way we will look at some of the limitations with the HumanIK toolset and how we can work around them. By the end of the this tutorial, you will comfortable with HIK whether you are an animator with no rigging experience or a TD looking to add HIK to your rigging pipeline.

A tutorial for a creating a character maquette entirely in ZBrush and combining render passes in Adobe Photoshop. The focus of this tutorial will be the creation of the character maquette entirely within ZBrush, with goal of creating a great looking rendered still as an and product. It is intended as an overall introduction to many of the tools within ZBrush which make the creation and output of this kind of illustration possible. The Image you see above was sculpted, textured and rendered in a single 9 hour day using these techniques.

 

Digital-Tutors – Creative Development: Modeling a Female Character for Animation in Maya with Gene Arvan

Digital-Tutors – Creative Development: Photorealistic Soap Bubble Shader Development in RenderMan for Maya with Laurent Charbonnel

Advanced | 2h 31m | 878 MB | Project Files 174 MB | Required Software: Maya 2008 and RenderMan for Maya 2

 

 

 

 

In this modo tutorial, we will look at the creation process for two shots of photo-realistic floating candle scenes that can be a part of a movie or a commercial.