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Several different techniques exist for creating a controlled leg skeleton in Maya, and all of the best ones address the issue of animating the foot using two different pivot point locations - one at the heel, and one at the ball of the foot...
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With the modeling complete, the next step is to begin texturing the geometry. Ordinarily, texture mapping information can be applied directly to an animated mesh without adverse effects...
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Perhaps I should preface this tutorial by acknowledging that many different methods exist for creating 3D characters for broadcast. To date, probably the most popular method has, in my estimation, also been the most complex one - that is, modeling with the use of NURBS surfaces...
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In this lesson you will learn how to create ripples on water that appear to cross over and float through each other. This will be done by using multiple water textures that will be layered to provide information to a bump node to produce the ripples...
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In this lesson, you will learn how to create a shading network that has a soft, fuzzy look. You will be using the SamplerInfo utility node and a Ramp texture to achieve a transparent drop-off effect...
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In this lesson, you will learn how to set-up and use the two bone IK solver. This solver is ideal in setting up characters for use in a Real Time 3D game. The source code for this solver is included with Maya, and its core algorithm can be extracted and integrated into a games engine...
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This is by no means a new technique, in fact, I saw it being demoed at the Kinetix booth at Siggraph, but people have asked several times how I create my smoke and water effects. So here's a quick tutorial discussing the concepts...
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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a 2D radial array (slightly more complex Then the common 1D array), the purpose of this tutorial is to familiarize yourself with max's powerful array tool...
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This tutorial shows you how to use the NURMS (NonUniformally Rational MeshSmooth) feature in 3D Studio Max Version 3.0
NURMS output approximates a NURBS surface by defining vertices of a polygon lattice...
Polygonal modeling is basic, and the serious modeler understands his or her polygonal modeling toolset completely. This lesson represents nothing other than my own very careful attempt to clarify for myself the ways in which the new generation Editable Poly object differs from the Editable Mesh.
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