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On Site Tutorials

• "How to make and use image sequences with Alpha channels in animation" by Ivan Stamatovski
  For this one I needed a scenery that looked like from a children's drawing so I drew all this little houses and
  storefronts and even street lamps were just simple planes with alpha chanel
  
  
  
• "Controlling Displacement Maps" by Jeremiah Grant
  This tutorial will cover the basics of nodes in Maya, the Hypershade and finally how to use the Multiply-Divide
  node to control the intensity of a displacement map. It assumes you know the basics of Maya, though this
  tutorial will describe in detail every step
  
  
  
• "Blind Warrior" by Ryan Lim
  This tutorial will briefly describe how I created my blind warrior from a painting
  
  
  
• "Polygon Texturing" by Ramy Hanna
  This is a polygon-texturing tutorial for maya 5.0. In this tutorial, I am going to go through the steps it takes to layout
  UV's of a model, create the texture map, specular map, and displacement map
  
  
  
• "Twist Modelling" by Christer Bjørklund
  Create a Polygon Cylinder with the following settings. . .
  
  
  
• "Modelling a Spiral" by Christer Bjørklund
  Go to Create CV Curve Tool Option Box and reset the settings. In the Front view create a curve, starting in the origin,
  with 5 units between each CV point.. . .
  
  
  
• "Modelling a tennis ball" by Christer Bjørklund
  Start of by creating a Polygon sphere with the following settings. . .
  
  
  
• "Adding fur to a tennis ball" by Christer Bjørklund
  For the textures and fur I added two Spherical Mapping nodes to the ball. The UV Layout is shown in this image. . .
  
  
  
• "Braid Modelling" by Christer Bjørklund
  Go to Create EP Curve Tool Option Box. Click the Reset Tool button and in the Front viewport create a curve with the following CV placement. . .
  
  
  
• "Maya Mental Ray" by Profane
  Let's begin this simple tutorial I've written not so long time ago about Outdoor Illumination in mental Ray.What you
  see below is the final render of what we need to achieve with this tutorial. . .
  
  
  
• "Maya PaintFX Hair: Getting Started…" by Eyad R. Hussein
  Hi all, as I see everyday a lot of people asking how to make hair or what’s the best way for creating hair, etc…
  Just here I will show a little steps how I’m creating hair in Maya using PaintFX. This tutorial contains three parts,
  first understanding hair elements, second working with complete hair and third setup hair strokes. . .
  
  
  
• "Making of Emelia: Creating Hair" by Derek Flood
  In this tutorial I'll discuss two methods used in "Emeila" for making long hair for the characters. The first is based
  on guide curves that determine the basic shape and flow of the haircut. Paint Effects hair is then interpolated
  between the guide curves. . .