Thursday, August 2, 2012

Modeling Tips - Speeding up workflow


Arvid Schneider shows some tips for speeding up modeling in Maya by demonstrating some shortcuts keys, marking menus and little bits here and there – some you may already know and others you may not. :)

CREATING A PROCEDURAL TERRAIN IN MAYA GENERATING RANDOM ROAD PATTERNS


Autodesk’s MayaHowTos channel post the first part of a multipart tutorial which shows how to create a procedural terrain in Maya showing how to create a script that will randomly assign roads, trees, rocks and hills to a game scene. Part one focuses on creating procedural terrain in maya, part one specifically looks at generating road patterns with the files used for this part of the Maya tutorial being available here

CREATING A 3D ANIMATED COUNTDOWN IN MAYA


An easy way to create animated 3d count down timer in Maya. It is interactive and can be controlled with basic expressions. This video has added Remaining/ played time in seconds and in frames. you can add any count down or animated text if you know the expression.