This tutorial will show you how to render your Maya objects in wireframe mode, without seeing the backface wires. This tutorial uses no plugins or scripts, and only knowledge of the Maya interface is needed. Here are some example renderings to compare the difference between having…

This tutorial guides you through the process of adding a light and animating its color and cone angle. The major steps of this tutorial are as follows: Preparing the Scene Animating Lights Animating Light Color Animating the Cone Angle Note: This tutorial does not explain how to perform…

This tutorial guides you through the process of modifying animation using visual keyframes on the Action timeline in the Transport Controls window.

We were on a very tight schedule right from the start, so we decided quite early that we needed to use file referencing for the three different files for each of the three resolutions we worked in. We could start animating our characters early in the production. If we found an error…

From the twisting form of a wilting leaf to the undulating arches, loops and whorls of a fingerprint, much of my work is inspired by patterns and forms in nature. For my work, I never want to recreate one particular thing that I have seen in nature, but I do use photography as a reference…

This tutorial will cover how to create and implement lightmaps with Mental Ray renderer in Alias Maya.

This tutorial will go over how to create a normal map and use it with Maya 6.0. It assumes you have an understanding of polygon modeling and UV layout.