Maya Tutorials

This is set of triks how to organase workflow with complex scenes using MtoA. Multitexture material - one shader, different textures. You can reduce amount of shaders in scene and speed up look development with one material and individual textures on each object. With this setup, shapes shar...

Hi  Amigos, This tutorial gives you knowledge on the concept of UV pass shader. UV pass shader is used to render UV pass which will be used in compositing to modify texture of the selected object. To start, We will try to understand the concept of UV's in Maya above picture is UV layout in ...

Attribute Collection lets you interactivly build and edit a custom user interface that can be saved with the scene. You can link attributes, group them in various layouts, add buttons and icons. Attribute Collection is part of the Bonus Tools for Maya and can be downloaded here.

Shuffle a limited set of Maya texture map tiles to create the illusion of randomness and variety.

tutorial now at http://www.arnokroner.com/design/curriculum-development/tutorials/foggy-egg/

Hello there, my name is Raouf, I am a Technical Artist currently living in Clermont-Ferrand, France. In this "quick tutorial", I will try to explain how I created "Natascha" and break it down into multiple creation steps. I will be focusing mainly on the shading and texturing part in which I ...

*UPDATE * The MEL script has been updated to a new renderSpeedy version 2.0 with lots of new features http://www.artbycrunk.com/script/maya/scripts-wireframe-render-speedy/ the old version can still be found here.. http://www.artbycrunk.com/script/maya/scripts-crtoonwireframeren/ FOLLOW F...

Hello! My name is Alex Tacu and I want to explain what are the correct gamma setting that you need to use when you render with V-Ray for Maya. Firs of all let’s have a look what result you get when you don’t set anything. For this I made a simple scene with 3 cubes. The left one has a simp...

Hey!   Today I’m going to explain how to make a simple planet, that is not rendering intensive and actually looks pretty good.   First open Maya, and create a new scene.   Create a Sphere, Set it’s radius to 10, and center it on every axis.   Assign a Lamburt Shader to th...

In this tutorial i showed how to create mountain using displacement, i explained about ocean shader snow texture.

In this tutorial i am going to show how to create Water environment using single shader with multple Textures, this is my first tutorial in Area.

Download the 'fakeibl' script from here. Open the scene the run the script. A dome (nurb sphere) will be created. The first step is to select an image as the environment map. The color of the lights on the dome will be changed regarding to the selected image. If your scene is far from the or...

In this tutorial we will be exploring the use of the Mental Ray node "parti_volume". in the past this has been somewhat troublesome for new and experienced users alike. however with this tutorial i aim to explain how to set it up in a way that will enable you to go ahead and put it to your ow...

Wildcards Selecting nodes using wildcards in the Input Box This tutorial originated on the 3D Animation weblog Set Driven Key. You may already be familiar with the Input Box in Maya. It's a text field on the status line (on the top right of the screen) whe...

Requirements and Downloads You  need the latlong_lens mental ray lens shader (latlong_lens.zip) . Example scene on how to use the shader, including the rendered HDR image (example_scene.zip). In order to view and edit HDR images HDRShop comes in handy . Introduction T...

Hi! This tutorial will briefly look into Vray For Mayas Blend Material “VRay Blend MTL.” It is very useful when you need to add for exemple a text on materials and still keep the base materials properties, or when you have to use textures in layers. So for this tutorial we will create somethin...

Hi everyone! My name is Dennis and just got my hands on the Vray For Maya demo! A friend asked if I could explain the basics, so here is a very simple tutorial. First of all if you havent, get Vray For Maya from ChaosGroup --> http://www.chaosgroup.com (you have to create an account) - The...

Batch Rendering 102: If you are new to batch rendering I suggest you have a look at my step-by-step tutorial here: Rendering several maya scenes and cameras The following tutorial is to answer the most common questions I am e-mailed regarding batch rendering How do I make the batch renderer us...

Rendering Realistic Dinosaurs Having many tons worth of digital prehistoric animals under our belt.  A number of  people have asked about my rendering set-up at dotnamestudios.  This tutorial is not about displacement maps or how to model but taken from the point after you have your model finali...

With the release of Maya 2009 the options available for render passes increased tremendously. This is usually a good thing. But in doing so, some of the easy methods for creating custom render passes, such as an Ambient Occlusion pass, no longer work as they did in Maya 2008. Apart from crea...

Compositing 101: The Black edge ----- The black edge...that faint line of premultiplied colour can be a devil if nobody has ever shown you how to get rid of it. Here is your frame turtle_0034 Here is your background sea footage: The problem is this horrible faint black edge that you ca...

Next-Gen Materials Cobblestone Written by Alex Schwartz - gtproductions.net WPI Game Development Club Foreword: Much nicer looking PDF located here: http://gtproductions.net/files/cobblestone_tutorial.pdf Introduction: This tutorial will guide you through the creation of a 3d mesh in Maya that ...

Batch Tool Tutorial I. What is the Batch Tool? The Batch Tool is a tool kit to do Maya rendering and batch processing for large amount of files. It serves as a bridge between Maya, operating system and local area network. The Batch Tool allows you to: *)Do Maya network r...