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getting a tron glow in maya using mia_light_surface Using mia_light_surface, Alex shows how to get the bright blue illumination of Tron The key here is the mia_light_surface utility and of course final gather. May sound complicated but trust me… its very very simple! Alex from Greensoda with a very interesting quick tutorial on creating the ever-poular (again) Tron like glows using mental ray and connecting a mia_light_surface node to a mia_material_x, which provides some surface shading information as well as a glow from a Final gather contribution… really cool! 45+ Incredible Maya Tutorials Around Autodesk Maya, or simply Maya, is a high-end 3D computer graphics and 3D modeling software package originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation, but now owned by Autodesk as part of the Media and Entertainment division. Maya is a powerful, 3-D modeling, texturing, and rendering application, with all of the tools needed to do nearly every type of animation imaginable, from simulations of real-world physics to character animation with a wide spectrum of emotive expressions. In this article below, we’ll take a look at Various Maya Tutorials for your source of inspiration which help you to deal with high-end 3D computer graphics. However, they all have something in common: they all give you clean idea about latest techniques. For those, who don’t know what is Maya? and what it can do?
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100+ Maya 3D Tutorials For Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Users When it comes to high-end 3d computer graphics and 3d modeling software package, Autodesk Maya is always one of application to be considered. Maya plays an important role in the 3d visualization and animation industry and they are top choices for many designers on large or small-scale production. Pin it If you are looking to picking up Maya to design your 3d models, this article is for you. We’ve collected more than 100 useful Maya 3D tutorials, ranging from beginner level to intermediate and advanced users.
Neal's stuff import pymel.core as pm import subprocess, os def findRenderCam(): Modeling an Airplane(Part 1-2) by Andrew Klein Details Skill Level:IntermediateTechniques:ModelingUsed Software:MayaCompletion Time:14:21Ads: In part 1 and 2 of this 10 part series, Andrew Klein covers cropping images and changing levels in Photoshop to create suitable image planes for Maya and looks at creating and setting a project in Maya. Part 1
Making Geometry Emit Light in Maya Well, this is something I thought would be overly complicated and was, for a long time, a challenge to get geometry to emit light. Essentially I wanted to simulate things like fluorescent tube lights, neon/xenon/argon shaped lights; any light that actually had physical shape. The method I'm using is not, however, without limitations. Here's a sample of what I'm talking about: