Create a material in Maya can be done in lots of ways. We will cover all the possible ways. Since most of us (3D Artists) have our own ways of doing things in the 3D world, that suit our habits and routines it’s good to know that Maya has covered
Create a realistic tablecloth simulation in Maya with the power of the nCloth engine. Pretty easy and straightforward process that can anyone grasp in under a minute. For this to work we need only two things. We can use the same technique either for animation or modeling purposes. The animation
Exporting an ambient occlusion texture map from Zbrush and later on using that map to add more shadow details to your color texture map is a very good idea, and we should definitely have it under our belt. Ambient occlusion is a technique used to simulate subtle shadows that occur
Rendering shadows on a transparent background is a must-skill when using Vray in Maya for a lot of reasons, and it’s a very simple method to accomplish. A transparent background or an alpha channel basically, is an essential render element in the 3D rendering process. It allows us to integrate
Converting a texture to geometry in Maya is an interesting technique we should definitely need to grasp, cause it saves us a lot of time, in the modeling process. The command is through Modify – Convert – Texture to Geometry. This technique allows us to apply an image texture to
Render an ambient occlusion pass in Maya and V-ray with a few simple steps. The ambient occlusion when using V-ray is called Dirt pass. Ambient occlusion is a technique used to simulate subtle shadows that occur between nearby objects. Basically, is a grayscale image that we can use as a
The search tool in Maya is finally a reality. It’s really a handy feature, that can boost your efficiency when working in Maya. Now that Maya has it, it’s really hard for me to remember the days it wasn’t an option. It really feels like a revelation to me. Let
Z-depth render pass in Maya is really a great way to create depth-based effects in the post-production process, such as DOF or fog. We can use those effects for a more realistic or artistic look in our final image. In this article, we are going to focus on the DOF
Export separate light render pass in Maya with V-ray renderer, in that way we have much more control over the lighting on our scene in Maya, during the post-production process to make all the extra adjustments we need, for fine-tuning our final output. Lighting is an essential part of any
Free smooth skin weights tool in Maya, that you going to love. It really helps with the entire process of skinning in Maya. The tool that will make your life easier, when working in the skinning process in Maya is the brSmoothWeights. The mrSmoothWeights is going basically to help you
Unfold a UV mesh in Maya and keep the border of the UV intact. The process is by just pinning the border of the UV and then unfolding. When dealing with UVs in Maya, most of the time we want to apply some unfold in our UVs to save some
