Maya Tutorials

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

n this basic maya tutorial you will learn how you van create a wine glas real quick by using mayas revolve function. You can use this technique to create a lot of objects, bowl, bottle and so on. Modeling is fun. Start today!

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!

The steps that follow are the result of a day’s experimentation with the goal of creating easily reproducible results when modeling a 2010 soccer ball.

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

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

In this 3 part Maya workflow tutorial you will learn how to model, texture, and render a Katana, the legendary Samurai sword. For the modeling portion, we will use Maya’s basic polygon editing tools, while UVlayout will be used to create the UVs, and of course Photoshop to create the textures. We will also briefly cover Mental Ray for rendering the final image.

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

While surfing on internet, Artist found this picture and fall in love to it. Consider this as a challenge and create in 3D.

Artist is not a big fan of comic strips but some of the characters have favorite styles so he decide to try to model one of them