On Site Tutorials

• "Diamond Caustics" by Philippe Le Miere
  Rendering a diamond as photo-realistically as possible is a 3D challenge. Light doesn’t just bounce off an object; it enters it, bends, changes color, bounces back and looses intensity.
  
  
  
• "Object spreading methods" by Nicolas d'Haussy
  Contrary to other classic 3d package, Maya has not dedicated any tools to spreading objects and it is often asked
  how to indeed. Placing each object would be stupid and exhausting. In this article, I demonstrate five methods from my own experience/analysis and some talken from boards threads
  
  
  
• "How do I create a flash photography effect?" by Lee Griggs
  First create a spotlight. Change Decay Rate to Quadratic. This will give us a more realistic falloff to our light. To compensate for this falloff, increase the intensity to 50000. Increase the cone angle to around 110 and the dropoff
  to 1. Turn on Use Raytrace Shadows on the spotlight and slightly increas.....
  
  
  
• "Foot setup in Maya" by Amilcar De Carvalho
  This is my second tutorial. Yay...anyways lets get to it shall we. This tutorial will focus on creating a foot setup
  with a foot controller and a footRoll attribute that will be done using set driven key. I must stress the fact that this
  is not the only way to do it, there are many other ways to do a foot setup, this is just my personal way of doing it.
  Without further or do, let us begin.
  
  
  
• "Modelling and Rigging a nut and bolt" by Martin Andersson
  This tutorial will go through the steps to create a photo realistic model of a nut. It requires that you have some
  basic modelling skills.
  
  
  
• "Using driven keys to create handController" by Martin Andersson
  This task is not very complicated, but it's a tool in Maya you DEFINITIVELY should not miss! Seriously! You
  have probably downloaded several free rigs on the Internet and all of them have controls controlling other
  controls. Usually NURBS-curves or locators are used, but you can use just about anything as controllers.
  Whatever you choose to use, you want the user to be able to handle........
  
  
  
• "Global Illuminatio and Finla Gather in Mental Ray for Maya" by Philippe Le Miere
  Currently, one of the best ways of achieving photo-realistic imagery is to render using Mental Ray for Maya.
  Mental Ray offers a Global Illumination and Final Gather solution, which when combined, simulates the physics
  of real world lighting effects. Now, for the first time in 3d, lighting techniques used by photographers and
  filmmakers can be applied to computer graphics.
  
  
  
• "Setting up animation controls in Maya" by Martin Andersson
  In this tutorial you will learn.1 - How to use the Bend Deformer. 2 - How to make one attribute depend on another.
  3 - How to use math in expressions to create animation.
  
  
  
• "Photon Illumination of DGS Materials in Mental Ray for Maya" by Philippe Le Miere
  DGS stands for Diffuse, Glossy, Specular. DGS materials are used to simulate materials with physical accuracy.
  It's the combination of these DGS materials with Global Illumination that produce those 3D scenes of
  unprecedented photo-realism .
  
  
  
• "Maya Hair" by Mike fudge
  There are many parts to maya hair dynamics and this tutorial covers the initial styling of it. In this tutorial I create
  the hair from pulling splines off a nurbs surface and use the history on the surface to control the shape of the
  hair. I create my hair this way...
  
  
  
• Symphony of the Clouds" by Andrew Suryadi
  This scene was made with Maya (modelling, Texturing, Lighting and rendering), texture editing and final
  compositing in photoshop. The idea for this scene is to depicted a dramatic sunrise moment that had a
  panoramic clouds.
  
  
  
• "Behind the scenes of Autumn" by Eldar Cholich
  This article aims to answer some of the specific questions I have been getting in regards to environment Autumn.
  
  
  
• "Animation Setp for Phone Cord" by Seb.Larroude
  A quick tutorial that explains how I animated a phone cord.
  
  
  
• "Dynamic Camera Setup" by Julian Sarmiento
  One of the biggest problems in doing any type of camera work on Maya is that the camera is always too clean
  and perfect. Thus creating a very cold camera. If we take a second to notice the way the cameras work in film
  and the way they feel, we will be able to redirect it.....
  
  
  
• "How to create a simple crowd" by Adriano Rinaldi
  We will create the scene shown in the following image, there are 15 particles and three obstacles of various
  dimension. The locator on the right of the image is the target, the particles follows this target. The particles interact
  with each other and with the object in the scene, the interaction with the object simulates the obstacle avoidance
  and prevent the collision...
  
  
  
• "Car Modelling Using Nurbs Part 4" by Julian Sarmiento
  In this part of the tutorial we are going to be working on the Rims of the car. By using these techniques, anyone
  

  should be able to make any type of rim. I chose this ring because of the clean cut, but it can be more advance if
  you desire to spend some extra time on it. The basics are the same. In case you want to use the same rim picture,
  just save the picture on step
  
  
  
  
• "Car Modelling Using Nurbs Part 3" by Julian Sarmiento
  In this part of the tutorial we are going to be working on the back bumper. At this point we should know how to
  use most of the tools and the concept of working with trim and fillet surfaces. Feel free to skip the explanations
  next to the picture and just use the pictures as a guideline of what to do next..
  
  
  
• "Car Modelling Using Nurbs Part 2 - Components" by Julian Sarmiento
  Here we go through making the details at t he front of the car....
  
  
  
• "Car Modelling Using Nurbs Part 2 " by Julian Sarmiento
  During this part of the car tutorial we will focus on the front bumper and adding all the details.  To do this we will
  go over 5 tools: Offset Surface, Loft, Trim, Untrimmed, Round Tool, and Circular Fillet. The LFT (Loft, Fillet, Trim)
  process will be very repetitive and as the tutorial progresses you will become more efficient with the process...
  

  
  
• "Car Modelling Using Nurbs Part 1" by Julian Sarmiento
  Before you begin the tutorial you should know that the tutorial will only work perfectly if you model the same car.
  This will save you a lot of frustration as you progress through each section. In order for you to better grasp the
  tutorial, I highly recommend that you do model the same car