There are many parts to maya hair dynamics and this tutorial covers the initial styling of it. In this tutorial I create the hair from pulling splines off a ...
Effects
Tennis ball Fur creation
This tutorial will focus on fur effect creation for a tennis ball. You will learn how to generate fur from an alpha map.
“Sub Scattering with ZBrush, Blender, Maya”
Sub scattering of particles? Huh? This occurs every day, for example we see lights that are sufficient enough to go through flesh (look at ears in sunlight)....
Lightwave’s New Hair System
Here is an 11 minute video covering the new hair system in LightWave, by William Vaughan. This is a hot item right now and we hope you will learn a lot from ...
Making of Squirrel in Winter
Hi, this is how I made my image for the CGArena challenge themed winter and won third prize. I participated a bit late so I thought of making an image which ...
Home
This is a very simple scene. There are only 2 real Objects in the scene, the windmill and the homecoming man. The ground is a very simple subpatched object. ...
Working with ICE
Get a free look into the inner workings of ICE and production workflow in this video from the Mastering the Art of ICE Volume I: Breaking the ICE series. In ...
Making of Zombie in the Closet
Greets everyone! My name is Yaroslav Primachenko and in this Making Of I will tell you about my last 3D work called A zombie in the closet. The idea for this...
Making of Refueling at OrMorFour
The first important thing I considered in my scene was the atmosphere. I started with a plain, fair weather spectral atmosphere with radiosity. Then I change...
Making of Primateran
For this picture, I wanted to create a scene that showed a part of the world of the Primaterans ' a civilization that prefers dark corners of the galaxy, hid...
Making of Barack Obama
Hi, my name is Toni and I am going to walk you through the process of making a digital portrait. Making a digital portrait can be a very difficult task if no...
Making of The Gift
This image was based on the following idea: A carpenter wishes to give his son a gift and the only thing he knows for certain is that he wants the gift to be...
Create Glowing Material
Glowing materials are very useful to create light effects. For example a neon-light effect. This kind of material is a light-emitting material. It will creat...
How to Create Fire
In this video tutorial learn how to create fire effect from scratch using Maya particle system
Volumetric Shader through Mental Ray
In this tutorial I will try to summarize what I learned through trial and error about Mental Ray shaders, and how to achieve interesting volumetric effects o...