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Duncan Brinsmead is a principal scientist with Autodesk. He is the creator of Maya Paint Effects, Maya Hair, Maya Toon, and also worked extensively on Maya Fluids and nCloth. Duncan holds an MA in Music Performance from Juilliard and enjoys playing piano as well as creating digital realizations of symphonic works in his spare time. The nuances and sensibilities from his musical background certainly find expression in all aspects of his work.

Mental Ray - Multi-Pixel Filtering Comparison

equalizer

Here is a file that implements simple audio equalizer bars.

Posted: Aug 02, 2007
Category: Tutorials
Comments: 0
Views: 5259
Mental Ray - Multi-Pixel Filtering Comparison

Making an ocean from a simple fractal texture

Creating an ocean is relatively easy in Maya Unlimited. However if you only have Maya Complete you can still get a workable ocean using an animated fractal displacement map with the right settings.

Posted: Aug 02, 2007
Category: Tutorials
Comments: 3
Views: 6574
Mental Ray - Multi-Pixel Filtering Comparison

Editing the Path Curve of Paint Effects On Poly

If paint effects is assigned to a 3d curve then it will follow the curve normal( which is based on the local curvature and is poorly defined... unless "useNormal" is on, in which case the normal is simply a constant…

Posted: Aug 02, 2007
Category: MEL
Comments: 2
Views: 2700
Mental Ray - Multi-Pixel Filtering Comparison

nCloth Vertex Editor (mel script)

Here is a mel script that will allow you to easily edit per vertex nCloth values by selecting vertices and editing values directly with a slider, rather than by using the paint tool.

Posted: Jul 29, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 4
Views: 5699
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Parent to Surface script

Here is a script for sticking objects onto a deforming surface. This mel command allows one to attach selected objects to a selected mesh or nurbs surface. The objects will follow any deformation or transformation of…

Posted: Jul 27, 2007
Category: MEL
Comments: 7
Views: 6825
Mental Ray - Multi-Pixel Filtering Comparison

pillow fight

Check out this cool new commercial from "The Mill":

Posted: Jun 16, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 1
Views: 4411