Maya Tutorials

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 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.

Hello, welcome to the 4th chapter of the car modeling in maya. In this chapter we will continue the creation of the support curve and then we will start to give those curve a surface. For creating these surface we will use “loft” and “birail” from the surface menu.Through these two option we will create the base shape of the car. Hope you will enjoy this.

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

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.

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!

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

In the second part of this 2-day, narrated timelapse tutorial, Sebastian Kim adds the final touches to the Luger P08 model. Created using Maya’s basic polygonal toolset, this model allows us to take a look at different hard surface subdivision modeling techniques – all of which play a huge part in today’s production environment.

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!

Inspired by the creatures of the Spiderwick Chronicles world, Gilberto Magno created his own interpretation of the Caribbean mermaid.