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duplicating geometry along a curve in maya

By lesterbanks | Published: February 23, 2010
Alex Villabon of greensoda shows how to duplicate objects on an arbitrary curve by using some animation tools. Maya – Duplicate Geometry Along A Curve from Alex Villabon on Vimeo. Use this trick to easily duplicate geometry along a path. You could even script it to automate the process. If you do let me know and i’ll [...]
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using maya entertainment creation suite in your pipeline

By lesterbanks | Published: January 29, 2010
This is a great little two-parter going from maya to mudbox and back again, rendering multiple rendering passes with mental ray and compositing those passes in toxic…er, maya composite afterwards. There are some great tips here on maya / mental ray displacement settings, and a really good process for using multiple uv tiles to almost [...]
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making the green frog using maya

By lesterbanks | Published: January 8, 2010
Massimo Righi shows us how he created the green frog using maya and NOT using zbrush in the process. How brash! If you are not familiar with Massimo’s work, you should really check out his site for some really impressive renders of animalia.
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modeling difficult objects of rotation in maya

By lesterbanks | Published: November 30, 2009
Creative Crash’s hosting of Belyaev Andrey’s tutorial on how to model detailed objects of rotation… as in the tires above, or a detailed plastic soda bottle. Some interesting techniques to check out.
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