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This tutorial was written as a response to an email asking how one could go about animating a baloon flying in the air - complete with attached string. I believe the quickest way to create a realistic motion would be to use soft body dynamics, which is the method described here...
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Once you figure out the basics of expressions in Maya, you'll find yourself using them all the time, avoiding manual keyframing as much as possible. In order to explain the basic idea of using expressions, this tutorial will show how to create a very simple animation...
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This tutorial covers the basics of making your own MEL procedures, MEL procedures allow you to define your own language in MEL, creating your own commands instead of using the built in commands like 'move', 'rotate' and 'polyCube'...
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This introduction to the Maya Embeded Language (MEL) introduces some simple MEL commands as well as the basic programming concepts of variables and loops. Variables are abstract signifiers that can be used to represent numbers, words (strings), decimals or just about anything else...
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This will cover modeling the hand, starting with a polyCylander.
Create a 12 sided cylander and rotate 90 dgrees on Z axis. Select three faces and extrude them. Flatten and move them as shown in the .gif below until you have a cool design...
In this lesson, you will learn how to build a spiral staircase using polygon Boolean and a bend deformer. This lesson highlights how deformers can be used to enhance the modeling process.
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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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