In this series of Maya tutorials, you'll learn how to create realistic hairstyles for your characters using Maya Hair. We will begin the tutorial by learning how to create the basic shape and style of our hair with a high level of precision and a minimal amount of effort. We will use paint effects strokes to assist in the styling and creation of our hair, we will learn how to apply dynamic forces while retaining the styled shape of our hair, and many additional topics that will allow you to start creating beautiful hairstyles for your Maya characters.

In this Maya tutorial we will learn about joint-based facial rigging in Maya. Throughout these lessons we will go over using joints instead of the traditional approach of using blend shapes.

In this Maya tutorial we will use animation and dynamics techniques to create a combat scene.
Throughout the lessons we will take a straight-ahead approach to animating a fight scene between three characters, using some basic techniques for establishing timing and camera angles before getting to work. Along the way, we will utilize the spontaneity the straight-ahead method allows in order to experiment with different narrative and choreographical choices for our scene.

Yeti is Peregrine Labs product to produce fur, feathers and generating lots of things based around familiar working concepts of a procedural node graph directly within Autodesks Maya. The toolset has been developed as an end to end solution that easily integrates into most pipelines with ease and built with the goal of efficiently transporting and rendering the data generated while maintaining an artist friendly workflow.

In this tutorial, we will cover multiple stages of preparing the geometry for rendering. We will set up UVs, materials, textures, as well as a series of light sources.

We will look at some camera settings that can be adjusted to make our image more suitable for the architectural visualization style. We will setup two scenes, for night and day time environments. At the end, you will have a solid foundation for architectural visualizations.

Chad Robert Morgan helps you build a versatile framework for animating naturalistic movement.

Designed to give rapid visual feedbackPhotoshop-style layers (in Maya 7.0 and above)Photoshop-style blend modesGradient toolColour swatchesColour inspector toolIntegrated ambient occlusion, lighting and texture baking shortcutsFilters:Adjust Red, Green, Blue, Alpha, Yellow, Cyan, MagentaAdjust Hue, Saturation, ValueBrightness & ContastLevelsBlur / SharpenErode / DilatePosterizeChannel inverterChannel clampComponent randomise3D texture samplingNormals 2 ColourFacetise.