Functional Tutorial For Beginners of Maya 3D Arts

Asim Shahzad Posted on 09. Mar, 2012 | Comment in!

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I really like to watch movies and this is one of the top hobby of mine, in last days I experience a animated movie as ‘Ratatouille’ there was awesome effects and walk-through of 3d characters after this I was explore related things and stuff and got some answers, one was Maya because this is excellent tool for 3d artist for rendering, 3d modeling, 3d animations, textures and awesome visual effects are belong to this software.

This is first film industry tool and most of the art director prefer this to get desired results from their 3d movies and dimensional animations, this is must have tool for 3d designers and in this post we have some of amazing maya 3d tutorials, not only for beginners this is also helping for professionals to get some advanced techniques and inspirations for their projects and some of these Maya 3d tutorials will help to improve your artistic skills because these of all tutorials belong to more professional art directors and 3d animators work that means they would like to teach others about various techniques and handy tips through below maya tutorials. I hope all of these feature tutorials will help you and also gave answers to your mind questions when you deployment 3d animations or modeling, so enjoy.

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An Introduction To Character Lighting Concepts In Maya

In today’s short, but informative tutorial author Pratik Gulati will introduce you to the fundamentals of character lighting using Autodesk Maya. This is a great entry level tutorial for beginners and more advanced users alike. These universal techniques can be applied to any 3D software, so even non Maya users can follow along!

Rendering Wireframe Using ToonShader

Well my major problem was with maya 2008 64bit doesnt suport vector rendering plugins. so i thought i would  try something new.. i mean there has to be another sollution out there.

Flying butterfly animation – Tutorial for beginners

In this tutorial, we will make a simple butterfly and animate it.

Making of Dream Mill

While I am surfing in internet, I found this picture and fall in love to it. So I came with an idea,  scene like that will be challenged for me. Then  I started to work on scene and called it Dream Mill.. By the way I am not %100 strict to reference photo.

Introduction to Eleven Rig by Claus Ilkjaer

The video is an introduction to a popular rig, made by community members of the Eleven Second Club. The forums were full of questions about how to use the rig, so this is what this video is about.

Modeling And Rendering A Simple Robot In Maya Using V-Ray

In this tutorial Sansar Tripathi will show you how to build a very simple robot in Maya using basic poly modeling techniques. With the model complete he’ll move on to setting up and applying procedural materials and explain the settings to use when rendering in Maya with Vray for fast test renders, as well as what settings to change to produce your final high quality output.

How to make a burning laser with fire and smoke

This tutorial assumes that you have an intermediate knowledge of Maya.

Create a coin 3D model

This tutorial will show you how to create very realistic coin using only maya 3d.

How to Model a Low Poly Building for Games – Maya Tutorial

This tutorial by DTUTS is for beginner/intermediate level. Done in real time, in Autodesk Maya.

Making of Ethroa

This image is the evolution of a previous project where the character was sitting and could be seen the full body. The idea was to show a feminine science fiction portrait with a peculiar helmet (I love to insert this kind of items, as I believe they are very intriguing) from where were spreading sunrays.

BRIDGE – POLYGON MODELING TOOLS

The Bridge action allows you to create a mesh connecting pairs of border edges, in other words bridging them.

Making of Pink Converse

Well in this tutorial I am going to share with you the process of my model “Pink Converse”, or at least I will try, since this is my first Making Off

Rendering A Realistic Guitar In Maya Using VRay

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to render a realistic electric guitar in Maya using VRay. Sansar will cover the process of creating and applying materials and textures to the model. And how to setup Vray to achieve a very realistic render in Maya with HDRI reflections and global illumination.

Character lighting using fake image based lighting (fakeibl) script

Open the scene the run the script. A dome (nurb sphere) will be created.

Spiral Modeling

Learn how to model a spiral.

How to Create a Simple Maya Shader with Ambient Occlusion – Maya Tutorial

how to create a simple Maya shader with ambient occlusion that can display models more effectively without lengthy render times.

Making of a Day

I’m very happy to create this tutorial and honoured to share this with you.

Create A Stylized Character With Maya And ZBrush, Basic Blocking

In this new multi-part tutorial series, Shaun Keenan shares the techniques and workflow he uses to create characters using Maya and ZBrush. In the first lesson Shaun will demonstrate basic blocking techniques to quickly build a sculpt-able base mesh for the character’s clothing, which will then be exported to ZBrush for detailing and refinement in part two.

vehicle stretch

This is my second tutorial hope it ll b useful 2 riggers, like my 1st tutorial (hand stretch).here i explained stretch&squash for vehicle rigging by using expression.

Duplicate Special

Duplicate Special lets you duplicate objects, change the transformation attributes of the duplicated object(s), and duplicate mulitple objects at a time.

Start creating watch part 1

Enter here and learn how to make a simple polygon watch in Maya.

Making of David Moratilla’s ‘Close-up Portrait’ – Maya Tutorial

David Moratilla reveals the texturing and shading secrets behind his amazingly life-like female portrait.

Making of Little Fishes

In this making artist will share the workflow, sketching the idea is one of the most important step, to put your ideas on paper.

Crafting a Detailed ‘Next-Gen Boiler’ – Part 3

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a next-gen, game model of an old weathered Boiler, with the help of only one black & white reference image. The whole process will cover the Low poly Modeling, High poly Modeling, UV mapping, Textures baking (i.e Normal and Occlusion maps) and Diffuse Texturing. Finally we’ll be applying Xoliul’s shader in Maya for realtime rendering of the model.

Create A Realistic Explosion In Maya Using Maya Fluids

Maya fluids gives you the tools to simulate any kind of smoke, fire, water, explosions, wind effects etc. and is a very powerful tool for every FX artist. The fluid simulations and shading can be as different as night and day, but they rely on the same attributes which you’ll better understand after completing this tutorial.

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Model and Texture a Photorealistic USB Cable with Maya and Mental Ray, Day 1

In this tutorial you will go through the process of modeling and rendering a Photorealistic USB cable in Autodesk Maya. You will also learn to use Mental Ray, along with the new architectural materials, rendering layers, and Photoshop, to create a fast, accurate, and photorealistic depth of field.

Interior Kitchen Visualization – Maya Tutorial

In this tutorial, Arvid Schneider discusses how to create effective lighting for an interior room visualization.

Clock Modeling Tutorial

This tutorial series will walk you through step-by-step how to model, texture, and animate a clock. The tutorial covers box modeling techniques, revolve modeling techniques, and boolean modeling techniques. We’ll be touching as well on basic principals of expression-generated animation.

Create An Amazing Unfolding Effect In Maya Using Morrisfold

In today’s tutorial you’ll learn how to create a great looking unfolding effect in Maya 2012 with the help of the “Morrisfold” plugin. This free script makes what would normally be a very time consuming task, a complete breeze. Allowing you to quickly adjust, change or completely re-time your animations in a matter of minutes!

Create A 3D Anaglyphic Render In Maya 2012

So in this tutorial we will learn how to make a realistic 3D-Anaglyphic render in Maya 2012.

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