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

In this series of Maya tutorials, we will be taking a detailed look at each of the commands found in Maya's Edit UVs menu. Each video tutorial is a self-contained lesson centering on one of the commands found in the Edit UVs menu in Maya. This means that these lessons can be viewed in any order you wish, allowing you to jump straight to the content that is most relevant to you. Over the course of these tutorialss, we'll take a detailed look at each of the Edit UVs commands and how each of them can be used to speed up our workflow.

Digital-Tutors – Maya Rigging Reference Library: Constrain Menu

Advanced | 2h 06m | 816 MB | Project Files 63 MB | Required Software: Maya 2012

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 tutorial we’ll learn how to take a basic render scene and add textures, render it and composite it into a finished shot. We'll be covering all the steps needed to take a plain render and make it better. We’ll begin this project by creating a procedural dirt shader for our ground cover. Then we'll hop into Photoshop to create a photographic texture for our road. We'll then add some detail using more procedural textures to break up the edges of the road and create a broken concrete feel. From there we will set up a particle system for our tires and create render layers and passes. Finally we will composite our shot using the Maya Precomp feature and Maya Composite. We'll learn how to color correct our passes, add various blurs and composite everything together into an integrated shot.

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.