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Skeleton Basics - Part1
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Rigging
In this tutorial Kevin shows you the set up a a simple dog skeleton.
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Basics - SDK Railtrack Example 1
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Animation
This tutorial covers some basics of set driven keys. You will link up a handle with the moving of some railway points If you need the scene file for 4.0 you can grab it HERE but be sure to import it as a Maya .ma file
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Basics - SDK Spaceship Example 2
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Animation
This tutorial is the 2nd example of some basic set driven keys. You will set up your scene so as the doors open as your spaceship approaches, then they will close when ship is inside The scene file for 4.0 we will be uploading soon.
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Basics - Fire Ring Example 1
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Effects
In this quick dynamics tutorial, Izzy shows us how to create the ever-popular "Ring of Fire" effect so common in today's space explosions.
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Basics - Marking Menus
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Effects, Basics
Joe Thompson takes us through this tutorial that covers the steps on creating custom marking menus Marking menu greatly improve your work flow around maya We will also briefly cover the use of such tools as the shelf editor marking menu editor and hotkey editor This tutorial is great for any one looking to cutomise there own marking menus
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Basics - Split Poly Tool
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Animation
Mike goes over the ins and outs of the Split Poly Tool along with all of its options. This is one of the most important modeling tools for any situation!
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Render Globals
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Animation
Rendering tutorials...
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Dragon Project - image plains
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Modeling, Reference, Textures
This tutorial has been requested much by the members of Simply Maya and the "how do I set up an image plain" question arises everyday - with that in mind we have decided to do this video for free.
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Cloth Shirt Tutorial
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Basic
Kurt takes us though this tutorial covering cloth. You will make a shirt for your character and learn many of the basic functions. A great video for anyone wishing to explore cloth..
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Extrude Face 2
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Basics, Modeling
This tutorial series was encoded using DiVX, please ensure you have the latest divx codec on your machine
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Bouncing Ball
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Animation
Learn the basics of some animation techniques as Kurt takes you through this bouncing ball tutorial.
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Cartoon Dog
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Modeling
Kurt shows you how to create this cool looking cartoon dog - Starting with the image planes and moving onto the modeling which covers nurbs, polygons and sub divs.
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Alpha Channels
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Basics
Mike explains the issue of alpha channels in photoshop dealing with transparency. Although Mike uses a maya model for the tutorial -this method can in fact be used in most 3d applications.
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Texture Basics
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Textures
Mike takes us through creating a textures in photoshop. Great tutorial, deals primarily with creating textures for Maya, however all the texture work is done in photoshop.
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Basic Human form
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Basics, Modeling
The Basic Human form tutorial is intended for new users to get them familiar with the tools and interface of Maya 6 and above. We begin by creating an image plane to guide us in modelling the basic shape and proportions in nurbs. Once we have our character blocked out we will then switch our nurb geometry into polygons to start connecting all the loose parts together to form one piece of geometery.
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Character Design
Source - SimplyMaya Category - Basics
Do you want to learn how to bring a character to life on paper? This tutorial will show you the techniques involved in creating a character design. They include fast sketching to get your ideas down on paper and then developing that sketch into a more refined drawing using an overlaysheet to clean it up.
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