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Maya 2014 Bullet Ragdoll
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Maya 2014 Bullet Ragdoll

Posted 26 March 2013 10:53 pm by dobert on The Desk

Setting up a dynamic simulation using Bullet on Joints in Maya 2014.

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Maya transfer attributes
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Maya transfer attributes

Posted 31 January 2013 7:00 pm by dobert on The Desk

I quick demo of how to transfer UVs between two meshes and a workaround or hack to delete the performance robbing history on the skinned mesh.

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Maya_lights_101
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Maya_lights_101

Posted 15 January 2013 7:15 pm by dobert on The Desk

A few tips on working with lights in Maya to get photo-real results.

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Autodesk University Class
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Autodesk University Class

Posted 18 October 2012 1:02 pm by dobert on The Desk

I am giving an introduction to Mocap class at AU this year. The Xsens guys are going to help out and bring one of their cool Mocap suits.

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Motion Vector 101
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Motion Vector 101

Posted 13 October 2012 2:04 am by dobert on The Desk

Learn how to render out a Motion Vector Pass using Mental Ray in Maya 2013, then comp the output images back together in Maya Composite. The demo also has some tips on working with Maya's Render Layers.

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Passing nParticle.rotatePP to a Fluid's texture attributes
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Passing nParticle.rotatePP to a Fluid's texture attributes

Posted 5 October 2012 7:09 pm by dobert on The Desk

This demo will teach you how to have each nParticle use an unique rotation value for a Fluid based texture.

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Viewport 2.0 Improvements in the Extension for Maya 2013:
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Viewport 2.0 Improvements in the Extension for Maya 2013:

Posted 3 October 2012 8:40 pm by dobert on The Desk

Viewport 2.0 has had lots of little improvements beyond the new DX11 support.

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Cool trick for setting environment variable when launching Maya
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Cool trick for setting environment variable when launching Maya

Posted 30 August 2012 12:56 am by dobert on The Desk

This is a simple trick to launch Maya with a specific environment variable, in this example to run in DX11 mode.

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Technology preview of livelinking between Maya and MotionBuilder
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Technology preview of livelinking between Maya and MotionBuilder

Posted 18 March 2012 8:00 pm by dobert on The Desk

Take a look:-)

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Help killer CG artist Zack Detox raise money for his film.
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Help killer CG artist Zack Detox raise money for his film.

Posted 10 February 2012 7:00 pm by dobert on The Desk

My old roommate has had a bit of bad luck and everything he owned was riper-off. He is making a Documentary about the whole ordeal and trying to find the losers that did it.

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