Polygroups are a useful way of grouping certain areas of a single subtool, to make selecting and working on them easier. You can...

The transition from a rock mesh to the landscape can look very artificial and fake at the seam where they intersect. We can adjust our...

This will show how to make rocks which when placed randomly, will have moss on top. Import your rock fbx files. Create a new material and...

Vertex Painting allows us to paint a secondary texture over parts of a static mesh, on top of the base texture. This is useful for adding...

OPEN UV EDITOR 1. With Model selected, In the top toolbar go to UV > Open UV Editor. 2. This will open the UV Editor window and...

Rendering is the process by which we process the snapshot of a scene to its highest quality. This can take a long time, as lighting,...

(Noted from Wade Neistadt’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=890_yXk7NZg) In Maya, you can do full renders of your scenes. These...

Masking is a way of selecting part of a tool, so that you can isolate it. It can then be hidden, used to create polygroups, or sculpt on...

Water Caustics are those bright, streaky highlights that appear in water, especially visible in swimming pools and beaches. The photo...

Creating lessons for my students, and this semester we are looking at creating posters in Photoshop. I created this poster tutorial as a...

Hi and welcome to the new blog. The old blog was getting a bit clunky and wordpress is a bit pish these days to be honest, so I thought...

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NURBS AND POLYGONS Polygon models are made up of a large number of flat planes with straight line edges – the more...

Noted from Lynda Video Tutorial THE OUTLINER Either select Window > Outliner or in a multiple viewport view, click Panels > Panel >...

(Noted from Lynda Tutorial) SELECT, MOVE, ROTATE AND SCALE Selection tool: Q Left Click to select an object. Click empty space or another...

Interface and screen layout. Maya has a standard menu bar like many other programs. But there are soo many tabs that they cant all be...

Matte Painting is a broad discipline. It involves creating replacement backdrops for film footage, as a cheap alternative to creating...

Camera Mapping, as discussed in a previous tutorial is a method for creating a rudimentary 3D scene from a 2D photograph. We already...

Camera mapping is a technique whereby a flat photo is projected onto 3d geometry. This gives us a limited ability to turn the flat photo...

HDR Light mapping is a technique used to get accurate lighting results when putting 3d models or characters into a photo or video scene. ...

After effects cs6 has a 3D Camera Tracker effect. Before CS6, Matchmover was the best program to use.Match Mover still has some...