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Kurt Boutilier Software: Maya 6, Photoshop
Learn to create your own furry characters in Maya. In this tutorial we model the yeti in a winter scene. We add some lights and continue with the UV layout and texturing. During this part of the tutorial you'll learn how to texture paint skin and get...
Kurt Boutilier Software: Maya
In this project organic modeling meets hard surface. We start off by creating the gorilla body and then move onto the hard surface elements. We look at how to combine geometry with booleans and in other ways, when this can sometimes cause problems. ...
Jason Edwards Software: Maya 6, Photoshop
Learn how to make stylized cartoon characters in Maya with this tutorial. After blocking out the basic shapes, we move onto detailing. Good techniques for modeling hands and boots will be shown, before we add the accessories. We then move onto UV lay...
Kurt Boutilier Software: Maya 7, Photoshop
Learn to UV map and texture paint characters in Maya with this project. We start by laying out the UV's for the T-Rex, before moving into Photoshop for texture painting. Here we look at getting good color variation, and how to make the reptile skin m...
Kurt Boutilier Software: Maya 7
In this tutorial we create an animation of a low polygon man throwing repeated punches at a boxing ball. You will learn how to key frame more involved motions over a longer period of time working with the time slider. Once the main frames for our box...
Kurt Boutilier Software: Maya 7
This is a good beginner project for new animators in Maya. Here we create a start pose for a ball throw, and then move onto keying the animation. Once the animation has been blocked out we go in and refine it by loosening up the motion. During this p...
Kurt Boutilier Software: Maya
Learn organic modeling in Maya with this tutorial where we create a centaur. We use image planes to get the initial shape right, going from NURBS to polygons to subdivisions. Here you'll learn how to work on a high resolution mesh in Maya, and gradua...
Kurt Boutilier Software: Maya 7, Photoshop
In this tutorial we look at UV mapping and texture painting a low polygon model. This process is quicker than it would be on a high resolution mesh, so it's a good beginner project. After the UV layout in Maya is finished, we look at painting color m...
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Although it might be intimidating for new users, the Bezier Curve Tool is one of the fastest ways to create complex curves in Maya. In our video, we start off by showing you how to use the Bezier Curve Tool to model a wine glass in Maya 2022. From...
In our new tutorial, we answer a question that often gets asked - how to cut round holes in Maya. The method we use works for cutting any type of hole in geometry. Maya's modeling tools chamfer vertex and circularize vertex get us off to a quick...
Bifrost is not only capable of simulating fluids but you can also use it for cloth. In this short tutorial, we show you how to drape a cloth over a table in Maya. This will get you used to the node chains and workflow of creating cloth within...
Continuing the modelling which can be found here We look at some techniques to quickly UV an object in Maya. Scene file can be found
A tutorial on basic poly modelling in Maya 2020. This is a continuation of our getting started with Maya series and contains the information you need to make your first model in Maya. The reference image I used can be found
Continuing our getting started with Maya series we're going to walk you through the principles of UV mapping. If you've never done any UV mapping before this would be a good place to start.
