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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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A Bag of Marbles using nClothThis tutorial uses a trick where one can have an nCloth behave like a particle system where the particles can self collide. This is vastly more efficient than trying to model all the marbles as little rigid ncloth… |
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Creating a sphere with very uniform trianglesAfter some experimentation I realized that my last tutorial on this topic creates a sphere that is not as uniform as one might wish. Here is a better solution to the problem of creating a sphere with a uniform triangle… |
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Creating a Toon OceanOne of the more difficult things to toon shade is water. A difficulty with the Maya Toon feature is that currently it does not work with the Maya Ocean feature, or for that matter, displacement mapping in general. One… |
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Rendering Thick Cloth ObjectsWith nCloth it is simple to give the cloth a specific thickness for simulation. However one may also wish to render the cloth showing the thickness. In general it is much preferable to simulate on a simple flat cloth… |
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Creating a sphere with uniform triangle sizeThe default poly sphere primitives in Maya have poles at the top and bottom. There is a simple technique to create a sphere with uniform distribution of triangles with no poles. This is especially useful for dynamics… |
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A couple of fun maya tipsI thought I'd share a couple of my favorite Maya tips. |
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