Maya

When first installing Maya 2022 you will have to enable a couple of important settings. Let’s go through the most important settings. Go to…

Step 1: Install Visual Studio Code VS Code Step 2: Install VSCode Plugins Python Extensions: ms-python.python MayaPy: fxtd-odyssey.mayapy…

Brent Le Blanc makes great Tutorials on Look development. I recently watched his great introduction to Arnold Lights. Takes an indepth look…

The Bonus Tools are a little odd, they are created by Autodesk but are not supported by them. So the tools are not directly included with…

While creating the lights for the generator room I ran into a very odd issue. The light source of my mesh Light suddenly started to render…

Arvid Schneider is an awesome guy that creates extremely high quality tutorials. Check out his website and  Youtube Channel. He made a great…

Autodesk officially only supports Fedora/RedHat. This is probably due to legacy reasons, since larger Corporations were using RedHat. There…

This technique is a very quick and dirty approach to creating a pile of stuff. The downside using this technique is due to the fact that…

If you want to show off your awesome modeling skills, there is no better way then to show off the models wireframe. You could do a quick…

The IES (Illumination Engineering Society) standard format file stores information about the distribution of light from a real light source…

For a university assignment, I had to “display” my modeling progress. My instructor wanted me to do a screenshot every 60 seconds. However…

We will be taking a look at how you can light your scene using the “infinite white background” look. This look is commonly used to present…

By default, you select faces in Maya with the whole face. I recommend changing this setting to “Center”. It makes it easier to select faces…

The Bridge-Tool creates a bridge between edges or faces. To use the tool you need to select on both sides the same number of edges or faces…

Today we will be creating a cool looking neon sign. Neon signs were extremely popular in the US from 1920-1960. These days you will still…

The mia_material_x has an artificial specular highlight, seemingly reflecting the light source, even though no light source is “visible…

When rendering with Mental Ray I always use a dedicated RenderCam. To create this camera I usually do the following Create the Camera Rename…

Sometimes you want to rotate an object 90°. The most common technique is to open up the Channel Box and manually enter the value. We will…

Now and then Maya forgets to load “mental ray”. To avoid the hassle of having to manually load the plugin, I wrote a simple script that is…

You cannot use the “Duplicate” or “Duplicate Special”-tool to duplicate along with a curve. We are going to use an animation-tool to get a…

Let’s take a quick look at how to punch holes in Poly Objects. It is possible to do this using the “Mesh > Booleans > Difference” Tool…

Sadly Autodesk does not provide Debian Linux packages. This makes it quite difficult to get Maya running on Ubuntu. Here is my modified…

Image Based Lighting (IBL) allows you to use High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) images as. To efficiently use sIBL images you would need to set up an…