Maya Tutorials

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.

In this tutorial i will try to explain how you can create a real tiger in Maya

Brian Horgan shares the great animation tool he wrote for Maya, which provides a different approach to ghosting/onion skinning in 3D.

got inspired for this character when I saw a sketch somebody did in my life drawing teacher Stephen's sketchbook. It just clicked me and I thought of making it in CG.

In this primer, we'll look at Maya's quick functionalities for duplicating our mesh, merging and separating meshes, and creating both soft and hard edges on our model to create variations in the model itself.

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 tutorial is intended to show you how to make a Coca-Cola bottle using Maya. Although, you may think making a bottle is trivial, but it is easy to overlook some of the tiny details that make your final image more desirable to watch.

Used real life references from the Thailand Zoo to create this wonderful artwork in maya

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 part we will explore Point Light and the Spot Light in Maya, this tutorial is very helpful in understanding lights