Connecting joints in Maya
This video tutorial explains how to connect joints in Maya when working with skeletons, and also how to add bones between joints. The video also gives an introduction to the parent-child relationship …
This video tutorial explains how to connect joints in Maya when working with skeletons, and also how to add bones between joints. The video also gives an introduction to the parent-child relationship …
This video explains how to create a basic skeleton for an object in Maya. When you create a skeleton, it is made up of bones and joints as shown below. The …
This video explains how to animate an object’s skeleton to a motion path in Maya. When you animate a object with its skeleton attached to a motion path, the object …
This video explains how to animate changes in the material or colour of an object, how to animate lights and also how to animate cameras.
This video explains how to bend a curve, move parts of a curve, add points to a curve, and extend a curve.
[glossary_exclude]This video explains how to add text to a scene and then animate it in Maya. You can manipulate text in the same way you manipulate many other 3D objects …
This video explains how to extrude a circle along a curve and then animate an extrusion. When we ‘extrude’ a 2D shape such as a circle, it means that we will …
[glossary_exclude]This tutorial explains how to animate an object along a path in Maya using CV curves and the Attach to Motion Path tool. The animation in this tutorial will look …
This video explains how to use an image file (eg. a JPEG) as a texture for an object in Maya. You can use an image to texture an entire shape …
This tutorial explains how to use lights in Maya and also how to emit light from an object such as the Sun or a light bulb (so that it glows). …
[glossary_exclude]In this tutorial, you will learn how to use boolean modeling in Maya to take an object and subtract, add or intersect the geometry of the object with another object. …
This video tutorial explains how to add cameras in Maya to change the view of objects and also how to render a scene as individual images or as a movie.
This video tutorial explains how to change the material, colour, texture, lighting, and rendering of a shape in Maya 2016.
This tutorial video explains how to animate a shape in Maya using keyframe animation on the timeline. Tip: To change the frame rate (frames per second) of your animation go to …
This video tutorial explains how to manipulate individual components (or faces) of a 3D shape using the component view.