Tweet Ciaran Dempsey with this method of creating a shader so the backlighting effect can easily be adjusted for the whole character with just one simple ramp texture. Maya Quick Materials Tutorial from Ciaran Dempsey on Vimeo. **Watch in HD and Fullscreen for best quality** I have had a few other students ask about the [...]
Tweet Rob Birnholz with part two of how to use the Zaxwerks ProAnimator After Effects plug in to open an existing Zaxwerks project inside After Effects and use the Layer Maps feature to add animated texture maps and filter effects to a 3D model. If you didn’t see part one, watch it here.
Tweet Adam Mechtley provides a basic introduction to Unity for artists. It covers some fundamental Unity concepts and editor panels, as well as the basic processes involved in getting Maya files and Photoshop documents into Unity. Unity for Artists – The Basics from Adam Mechtley on Vimeo. Level: Beginner Software: Unity 2.x or greater
Tweet In this Autodesk Maya Quick Tip tutorial, Abed Ibrahim shows how to create realistic looking condensation any object, specifically cold glass, and then quickly render it for a nice polished final effect using Maya Paint Effects.
Tweet Video Tutorial of the Sapphire Shake effect for After Effects. Shake simulates camera shaking motions with translation, zooming and/or rotation. Get a free trial of Sapphire on AE here.
Tweet Steve Hughes with a short modeling tutorial on how to model a knurl in Maya with an interesting technique.
Tweet With the new Adobe After Effects CS5 adding a Subtract and a Divide blend mode, Ben Rollason looks at how to achieve the same result in an earlier version of After Effects. “Ben Rollason demonstrates how to do subtract and divide blending modes in Adobe After Effects CS4 and below. CS5 now features the [...]
Tweet Yanobox (cool name) released Nodes, a new plugin for Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro. Yanobox Nodes offers a unique tool to combine text and graphics into beautiful 3D animations. Nodes lets you play with a number of different presets, or you can create your own by customizing all available parameters. Download a trial [...]
Tweet Owen Burgess posts on MayaStation some information on the dockControl command in autodesk maya 2011. The dockControl command is a great new feature in Maya 2011. Using a dockControl allows you to neatly fit your custom UI into the main Maya interface. This illustration shows the Script Editor docked where you would expect to find the Attribute Editor and Channel [...]
