Maya Tutorials

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

The concept started with little different idea and later modified the modeling

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

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

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!

This is a video tutorial series covering the modeling workflow of a ford mustang shelby GT500, with some additions of my own. Over the course of 9 videos in total I will explain to you how to get started, prepare to get to the modeling, what to look for and what to watch out for.

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!

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.

Artist saw the dark knight posters and decide to try something similar but did not want the character to look like Heath Ledger

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.