Digital Tutors – Modeling Hard Surfaces with NURBS in Maya
English | RMVB | RV40 640×480 | MP3 96 Kbps | RS & HF | 171 MB
Genre: Video Training

In this course we will use multiple NURBS techniques to build a skateboard in Maya.

NURBS geometry provides several advantages over some of the other types of building methods available, but the process for creating NURBS geometry is somewhat different from building polygon or sub-d models.

Digital Tutors – mental ray Production Shaders in Maya
English | RMVB | RV40 776×640 | MP3 64 Kbps | RS & HF | 219 MB
Genre: Video Training

In this course we will learn how the mental ray Production Shaders can be used to take our Maya renders to a new level of realism and efficiency.

Topics include rendering instantaneous motion blur using the mip_motionblur node, using the mip_card_opacity node to render accurate depth and normal passes, re-rendering portions of our images using the mip_render_subset node, compositing our 3D objects into live-action environments using the mip_cameramap, mip_matteshadow, and mip_mirrorball nodes, as well as many other mental ray Production Shaders found within Maya.

SimplyMaya Santa_Modeling

If you really love the holidays then the cartoon Santa is a great tutorial. We will start off this tutorial by creating image planes to create the correct shape and proportion of are Santa. Some of the modeling techniques used will be shaping in nurbs, converting to polygons to add details and then into sub’ds to define the final shapes.