Maya Tutorials

Maya and ZBrush were Armando Sepulveda's tools of choice when it came to modeling a character for his friend's short film: Our Lady of Lourdes

Eric Thelander reveals an inexpensive way of using facial motion capture to create high quality lip-sync animation without breaking the bank.

Artist started with the default body mesh from Mudbox, and quickly modified the body into baby proportions in ZBrush and Maya

In this 3rd chapter of car modeling in Autodesk Maya we will continue to create the curves of the model. In this chapter we will cover the back fender , roof post and the door post. We also create the in between curves for the hood.

Animating using expressions can be a big timesaver, especially when it comes to mechanical objects such as a merry-go-round! In this tutorial, Stephen Ko walks us through a simple expressions-based project, creating a simple UI with sliders to control the different parts of his model. Let’s get started!

Sean Hewitt presents a rigging tutorial that covers how to orient the LRA of a joint, as well as offering some useful advice on the subject as a whole.

This video explains a cool trick how to use video references for Animation. Normally, we use video references to get the idea of the animation, while this video explains a bit more on how to extract poses from the video and use it for our animation!

In this video tutorial, Claus Ilkjaer explains how to use a popular rig created by community members of the Eleven Second Club.

The original idea of the image came in the artist mind from the references he collected

In the second chapter of this series we will continue building the basic structure of the car model in Autodesk Maya with the help of NURBS curves. By the end of this chapter you will going to have an idea how we are proceeding towards the next level where we will move forward to polygon modeling.