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 to automatically lock to the end of the emerging paint effects…
Posted: August 23, 2006
Category: tutorials
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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 not for dynamic behavior, but rather its volume rendering. The…
Posted: August 29, 2006
Category: tutorials
Comments: 5
This post shows a simple and fast method for creating a dynamic phone cord using Maya Hair.
Posted: October 17, 2006
Category: tutorials
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The 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 applications, such as with nCloth.
Posted: February 04, 2007
Category: tutorials
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One 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 can convert the displacement to polygons, but for an ocean one…
Posted: February 07, 2007
Category: tutorials
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After 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 distribution.
Posted: February 07, 2007
Category: tutorials
Comments: 1
A Maya user was trying to create a curling ribbon with a paint effects brush. He wanted to know if it was possible to control the twist rate along the ribbon to make some areas flat while other parts were twisted. Unfortunately the paint effects brush only has a global "Twist Rate"…
Posted: February 13, 2007
Category: tutorials
Comments: 6
