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Maya: Tips, Tricks & Techniques

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Get tips, tricks, and techniques to solve the most common issues Maya artists encounter in a live production environment in this new series.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to Maya: Tips, Tricks & Techniques
1. Maya: Tips, Tricks and Techniques
  • Create environments using Camera Match
  • Create rope and pulley assemblies with nHair
  • Get the best quality out of Arnold renders
  • Glass and refractive surfaces in Arnold
  • Volumetric lighting in Arnold
  • Rig cartoon eyes
  • Model a threaded hex head bolt
  • Model a threaded nut
  • Use XGen to create grass
  • Attract a moth to a light MASH
  • Create tracks in the snow
  • Make characters lift objects
  • Model a car tire
  • Remove legacy mental ray nodes
  • Create wireframe renders using toon shaders
  • Rig and animate a tank track
  • Understanding wrap deformers in Maya
  • Create simple hair using XGen
  • Bump and displacement mapping in Arnold
  • Work with emissive shaders in Arnold
  • Create replacement animation
  • Model and rig a flower bloom
  • Quick fluids using nCloth
  • UV unwrapping a head
  • Improve interactivity in Viewport 2.0
  • Animate a metal chain using nCloth
  • Write a script to toggle Arnold opacity
  • Render an x-ray effect in Arnold
  • Simulate red blood cells in an artery
  • Create a stencil with layered shaders
  • Rig a coiled spring
  • Use the Maya Cleanup tool to fix bad geometry
  • Environmental lighting in Arnold
  • Render 360-degree images in Arnold
  • Understanding the Measure Tools
  • Using substance textures in Arnold
  • Using bonus tools
  • Rig a skeleton quickly
  • Model a vehicle impact using nCloth
  • Animate with Walk Cycle Control
  • Using the Turtle renderer
  • Bake normal maps in Turtle
  • Create ribbons and tubes using Curves
  • Vehicle rendering in Arnold: Glass
  • Vehicle rendering in Arnold: Car paint
  • Vehicle rendering in Arnold: Chrome and metal

Taught by

George Maestri

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