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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.

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A very simple nCloth flag

Here is a very basic workflow for creating a flag using the new nCloth in Maya8.5.

Posted: Jan 31, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 7
Views: 9871
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Nucleus and nCloth in Maya8.5

Now that Maya 8.5 is out I finally have an opportunity to update this blog. I have been working on the nCloth feature and now that it is in user hands I hope people will have fun with it. NCloth is the first thing in…

Posted: Jan 25, 2007
Category: nCloth
Comments: 12
Views: 11186
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Creating a dynamic telephone cord

This post shows a simple and fast method for creating a dynamic phone cord using Maya Hair.

Posted: Oct 17, 2006
Category: Tutorials
Comments: 8
Views: 5666
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Forest Road using Paint Effects

This example scene shows Paint Effects trees and grass used to create a forest along with some fog. In order to get the lighting in the clearing the way I wanted I used several very bright spotlights with fairly high…

Posted: Aug 31, 2006
Category: Example scenes
Comments: 10
Views: 10134
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A Fast and Simple Planetary Atmosphere

I'm not sure what Pluto's tenuous atmosphere looks like, but to mark the occasion of its fall from planethood to planetoid here is a mini tutorial on creating an atmosphere using Maya fluids. This tutorial uses fluids…

Posted: Aug 29, 2006
Category: Tutorials
Comments: 5
Views: 10742
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Pen writing on paper (Maya paint effects)

It is relatively easy to animate a line of written text, but it can be tricky to exactly track the pencil point to the line as it writes without resorting to lots of keyframes. The following technique allows the pencil…

Posted: Aug 23, 2006
Category: Tutorials
Comments: 1
Views: 4367