Maya Tutorials — Basics

Kristina Johnson presents an excellent step by step guide for the modeling, shading, lighting and rendering of a realistic lava lamp in Maya 2009

This is a series of five free videos, each about ten minutes long. In this series, you learn to navigate Maya's unique user interface. We create a very simple 3D model, an ice cream cone, and add a material to change its color.

Learn the basics of subdiv modeling

Imagine this -- you are doing a shot for a film, for example, a cyber cityscape. And you use many lights, glows, fog, crafts … and of course, you turn on some form of GI or ambient occlusion.

In this tutorial i will try to teach you how to make realistic clouds in maya software. I hope you will enjoy it.

In this tutorial you`ll learn how to model and texture a tea cup.