Category Archives: Maya

Lighthouse Anubis Has Fingers…

Most  of the drawings have wrists that tapper more into the hands… the particular drawing that I’m working from doesn’t… What to do? Compromise? Maybe just play with it a little to see what looks best…

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Modelling The LightHouse Anubis…

Decided to go with Reference but not construction drawings… i find that often moving the design to construction drawings knocks some of the life out of what you are trying to make and as asymmetry in posing adds more life … Continue reading

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Modelling a Dr Seuss style standard lamp in Maya for 3D Printing…

Just as it says in the title… Modelling a Dr Seuss style standard lamp in Maya for 3D Printing [vimeo vimeo.com/87759538]  

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Another Caustic Gif…

Here is another quick play with caustics projecting pretty patterns… This is as small as I could get 100 frames…

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Maya Mental Ray and Caustics…

Yet another episode in the process of preparing a simple character for animation using Autodesk’s Maya, this week we look at lighting effects Mental Ray and Caustics… [vimeo vimeo.com/86913263]  

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Maya nParticles tutorial…

Yet another episode in the process of preparing a simple character for animation using Autodesk’s Maya, this week we look at a simple nParticle set up and try to make it look a little like water…   [vimeo vimeo.com/85239555]

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Maya nCloth Tutorial

Yet another episode in the process of preparing a simple character for animation using Autodesk’s Maya, this week we look at a basic Maya nCloth set up and how to get it moving…. [vimeo vimeo.com/85239426]  

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Maya nParticles… quick water sim…

Messing around before next weeks tutorial and thought this looked pretty…   [vimeo vimeo.com/84950087]

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Maya nCloth… just a little test…

A quick test before doing an intro to nCloth tutorial for next week… [vimeo vimeo.com/84777898]  

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Maya MatchMover and Harv

Yet another episode in the process of preparing a simple character for animation using Autodesk’s Maya, this week we look at MatchMover and get Harv out into the real world… [vimeo vimeo.com/84055204]

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