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cmiVFX – Photoshop Maya Matte Painting

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cmiVFX – Photoshop Maya Matte Painting
English | Size: 14.1GB
Category: Tutorial


cmiVFX has released a brand new Large Scale Set Extension Digital Matte Painting video with mentor Rohit Nayak. Explore the entire matte painting and set extension workflow from the first concept sketch to the final painting. Gain experience by creating CG assets and painting over a lighting render, which is a commonly used work process for environments in production. Rohit demonstrates many photo manipulation and digital painting techniques in a very comprehensive manner.
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Digital Tutors – Advanced PyQt for Maya

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Digital Tutors – Advanced PyQt for Maya
English | Size: 1.4GB
Category: Tutorial


In this Maya tutorial we’ll learn that Qt is an extensive and powerful UI library that is capable of creating anything from a simple group of buttons to a full application.

We’ll start with an overview of the basics, using standard widgets and layouts, and connecting them together. Next we’ll build a simple naming tool that demonstrates how to quickly put together a professional looking interface to work with Maya scripts.
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Digital Tutors – Simulating a Disintegration Effect in Maya

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Digital Tutors – Simulating a Disintegration Effect in Maya
English | Size: 1.2GB
Category: Tutorial


In this Maya tutorial we’ll delve into the simulation of a disintegration effect using Maya’s powerful nCloth particles and fluid dynamics tools.

We’ll cover in detail the process of breaking an efficient mesh for disintegration purposes and later emit the detailed secondary particles and fluid simulations. This course also covers a wide variety of tools and techniques along with MEL functions and expressions. [Read more…]

Digital Tutors – Creating Costumes for Production in Maya

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Digital Tutors – Creating Costumes for Production in Maya
English | Size: 3.0GB
Category: Digitutors


In this Maya tutorial we’ll cover the best methods for creating a clean model for clothing and collision object.

Duration 2h 16m Project Files Included MP4

We’ll cover how to adjust the cloth properties to help create a smoother and faster simulation, and how to organize your scene to make it as light and clean as possible. We’ll also review rest meshes and their usefulness with post creation tailoring of a costume. [Read more…]

Digital Tutors – Tips for Modeling Complex Shapes in Maya

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Digital Tutors – Tips for Modeling Complex Shapes in Maya
English | Size: 1.7GB
Category: Digitutors


In this Maya tutorial we’ll learn some key fundamental concepts for modeling with polygons.

We’ll cover troubleshooting your models, breaking down shapes into basic forms, and using primitives to create more complex forms. We’ll also discuss correct edge flow, geometry amount, edge tension, and some really great tips and tricks.
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SkillShare – 3D Animation 102 – Rigging Class in Maya – Rigging Your Own Robot

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SkillShare – 3D Animation 102 – Rigging Class in Maya – Rigging Your Own Robot
English | Size: 3.61 GB (3,875,485,080 bytes)
Category: Tutorial


So now that we have our Robots modeled it is time to rig them. Rigging is the inner skeleton of the model that we willcreate.

This skeleton is what will drive the geometry and move it when we finally animated the character. Rigging is extremely technical, but if you have the patience, it is a process that can give you a lot of power when setting up your animations.
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Digital Tutors – Mastering Displacement Maps in Maya

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Digital Tutors – Mastering Displacement Maps in Maya
English | Size: 241 MB
Category: Tutorial


In Maya tutorial, we will learn how to take full advantage of the displacement rendering features of Maya, allowing us to render highly-detailed surfaces with little effort. Displacement maps are especially practical for users of ZBrush or Mudbox, who want to render their highly detailed creations in Maya with the utmost speed and efficiency.

We will begin this tutorial by learning the basic steps of connecting your displacement maps and controlling the strength of your rendered displacement effects. [Read more…]

CGcircuit – Maya Python API for Artists and Technical Artists

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CGcircuit – Maya Python API for Artists and Technical Artists
English | Size: 2.18 GB
Category: Tutorial


This program is specifically created for Technical Artists and Artists who want to become more technical and are willing to understand technical side of maya.

In this video series we will start with very basic fundamental of Maya API and then we will move to the Beginners concepts like : like accessing and modifying the attributes of different type of objects in Maya which a Technical Artist uses in their tools almost on the daily basis and your tools are allot faster when you are using API instructions , then we will move towards learning about custom commands – using which we will create our own maya commands, iterators, deformers, callbacks, locators and during this we will also create different sets of tools eg. Custom locators sets for character rigs, Particle-Vfx custom command, API- IK-FK seamless switching etc. [Read more…]

Digital Tutors – Utilizing Advanced Shading Techniques Using V-Ray in Maya [21 WebRip (MP4) + Exercise Files (ZIP)]

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Digital Tutors – Utilizing Advanced Shading Techniques Using V-Ray in Maya [21 WebRip (MP4) + Exercise Files (ZIP)]
English | Size: 1.46 GB (1,563,459,550 bytes)
Category: Tutorial


In this series of V-Ray and Maya tutorial, we’ll examine step by step how V-Ray shaders work, and how we can modify, and stack them to create realistic materials.
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