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Duncan’s Corner | Duncan Brinsmead

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.

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Animating a Book with nCloth

With nCloth it is relatively simple to create a fully dynamic book where one can flip pages naturally. It would be almost impossible to capture the subtle motion of twisting pages this provides if one instead used…

Posted: May 19, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 11
Views: 15559
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Dynamic Follow MEL Script

Here is a script that allows you to easily have one object follow the position of another, but with damping and a lag. I find it is very useful when you wish to have a camera follow an object automatically without…

Posted: May 03, 2007
Category: MEL
Comments: 0
Views: 5199
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Light Glow occlusion

There is a common confusion with lightglow occlusion in Maya(not to be confused with light fog).

Posted: May 02, 2007
Category: Autodesk Maya
Comments: 0
Views: 3641
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Simple moving fireball with Maya Fluids

Here is a simple file with a moving emitter in a fluid. The detail depends on the fluid resolution in this case and no texturing was used. I created the file in a few minutes starting with a default 3d fluid and…

Posted: Apr 17, 2007
Category: Example scenes
Comments: 16
Views: 18977
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Playing Animations

The animations on this site generally use the DivX codec.

Posted: Apr 11, 2007
Category: General help
Comments: 0
Views: 1574
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It's Slinky, it's Slinky!

Here is how to do the "fun and the best of the toys" using Maya nCloth. The slinky is a special type of near zero tension spring. It is constructed with a flat ribbon of metal that resists shear and bend in the ribbon…

Posted: Apr 06, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 7
Views: 11299