Maya: Tips, Tricks & Techniques

Get tips, tricks, and techniques to solve the most common issues Maya artists encounter in a live production environment in this new series.

Introduction

• Welcome to Maya: Tips, Tricks & Techniques

1. Maya: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

• Create environments using Camera Match
• Create rope and pulley assemblies with nHair
• Get the best quality out of Arnold renders
• Glass and refractive surfaces in Arnold
• Volumetric lighting in Arnold
• Rig cartoon eyes
• Model a threaded hex head bolt
• Model a threaded nut
• Use XGen to create grass
• Attract a moth to a light MASH
• Create tracks in the snow
• Make characters lift objects
• Model a car tire
• Remove legacy mental ray nodes
• Create wireframe renders using toon shaders
• Rig and animate a tank track
• Understanding wrap deformers in Maya
• Create simple hair using XGen
• Bump and displacement mapping in Arnold
• Work with emissive shaders in Arnold
• Create replacement animation
• Model and rig a flower bloom
• Quick fluids using nCloth
• UV unwrapping a head
• Improve interactivity in Viewport 2.0
• Animate a metal chain using nCloth
• Write a script to toggle Arnold opacity
• Render an x-ray effect in Arnold
• Simulate red blood cells in an artery
• Create a stencil with layered shaders
• Rig a coiled spring
• Use the Maya Cleanup tool to fix bad geometry
• Environmental lighting in Arnold
• Render 360-degree images in Arnold
• Understanding the Measure Tools
• Using substance textures in Arnold
• Using bonus tools
• Rig a skeleton quickly
• Model a vehicle impact using nCloth
• Animate with Walk Cycle Control
• Using the Turtle renderer
• Bake normal maps in Turtle
• Create ribbons and tubes using Curves
• Vehicle rendering in Arnold: Glass
• Vehicle rendering in Arnold: Car paint
• Vehicle rendering in Arnold: Chrome and metal