Mar 27, 2007

“Dynamic rigging” by Sean Hewitt The purpose of this tutorial:I had had to make a rig for an underwater vehicle with some fly by wire parts coming off of it.  We wanted to have control over them, and be able to position them by hand, but seeing as how everything was supposed to be under the sea, we really didn’t want to have to animate all the...

Mar 10, 2007

“Object spreading methods” by Nicolas d’Haussy Contrary to other classic 3d package, Maya has not dedicated tools to spread objects and it is often asked how to indeed. Placing each objects would be stupid and exhausting. In this article, I demonstrate five methods from my own experience/analysis and some talking boards threads. But their may...

Feb 27, 2007

“Caustics in MentalRay” by Toni Bratincevic Before we start with tutorial please download the scenes that we will use in our training. DOWNLOAD THE SCENES INTRODUCTION So we meet again (for those who passed through my GI tutorial 😉 ). This time we will learn how to set the caustic effect in mentalray for maya. As you already know, the calculation of...

Feb 21, 2007

“Realistic lighting with LDRI images” by Toni Bratincevic One of the biggest inventions in the last few years in realistic lighting solutions is the appearance of HDRI images and lighting the scenes with them. In my first tutorial on mentalray thematic, I have described the way how to use hdri images to light up the scene. As you already learned in...

Jan 14, 2007

“Revolution” by Zhang Yang This is the complete image and wireframe. If you want to see the high-rez image,you can go to CGTALK on this thread 1-Story-concept designing-sketching My inspiration comes from a fiction story which tells a war between human beings and machines.Human beings were almost extinct.The survivors became stronger by aberrance....