Today I’ve been completing my NURBS modeling of a “cartoon” car. Then modeled a bridge and textures and lighting to a completed scene. I’ve been studying the book Maya at a Glance to learn more. Personal project.

Experimenting with water Shader and camera following motion path aimed at dummy object, to create a travel effect on a 3d tunnel of water. Rendered using Mental Ray – Draft Motion Blur.

I’m currently using the incredible DI3Dtransfer™ 3D Shape Transfer & DI3Dtransfer™ 3D Material Transfer tools at work right now for 3D Content Creation. For more information about these tools visit the Dimensional Imaging Ltd. website for more information about these tools: 3D Content Creation Software

I’ve got some time off and I have planned to start working through these Maya books. 8 books and 3 DVD:s. Will take some time but at least I can make a start!

Hello, this is a new tutorial video showing how to do a loft between two isoparms in Maya.

RENDERING WIREFRAME:
1. Turn off the R option for the BeautyPass layer and turn it ON for the Wireframe layer.
2. In the Render Options choose May Vector. If you do not see it in the list, go to Window > Settings Preferences > Plugin Manager and check the box next to VectorRender.mll. You should now see …

Had a look at Maya Hair tools today, tried different settings for Hair, did a quick test animation of some ‘tentacle’ type hair. Using shaded Paint FX rendering of hairs.

As there is no documentation for configuring Wacom Tablets in the Maya User Manual; I have written a quick guide here to set the Wacom (Inteous 3) tablet properties for Maya 2010:
The following instructions describe how to set the pen properties for the middle and right click functions (Track and Dolly) when the Alt key …

Tonight I have learned how to import a Maya exported .ma file into After Effects; and then use the Maya camera as a new composition. Further; I learned to create a Null object in Maya; that can then be used as a reference to replace with a layer in After Effects; in this case my …

I have developed a new neat MEL script that calculates the speed in miles per hour for any animated object in a scene. The script is executed automatically for each frame; either stepping frame by frame or by playing back normally in the timeline. The script is ~ 90 lines of code; and also uses …

I have decided to release a motion graphics reel; showing some previous work done in After Effects with some elements of 3D (clouds & building structures in Maya). All elements created from original designs and some photography. Most of the sequences designed to work as sample background video sequences; so I basically worked to come …

I have decided to release a motion graphics reel; showing some previous work done in After Effects with some elements of 3D (clouds & building structures in Maya). All elements created by myself. Most of the sequences designed to work as sample background video sequences; so I basically worked to come up with some assets …

Today I’ve been doing the first chapter of Maya Matchmoving 101 training course. In the first chapter we learned about Image Size aspect ratio, frame padding and Image File Output Settings.
First we created a new camera, next we set Image Size / resolution gate. This should be set to the Preset matching the video source.
Next …

This is a new image I created late last night. I think it looks a bit like some alien rock formation or landscape. Again I have used a script for creating a very large image used for the creation of a texture map. I am in the process of doing further training using a huge …

Personal Project: Carpet with some various objects on it. A late night working on some rendering tests.