Wiktor Öhman covers the basic concepts and workflow when baking a normal may using Autodesk Maya. This is a pretty good overview if you are a beginner or never have baked a normal map out, or maybe still confused as to what has to be done.
Normal Map Baking Tutorial from Wiktor Öhman on Vimeo.
“This is a tutorial about how to bake a Normal map from a high to low poly. Technical details are pretty low. I’m showing my way how to do it. There are many ways to achieve the same thing in the world of 3D, and this is how I do it. 🙂 Tutorial was made originally for nextgenhardsurface.com Hope you like it!”
