Links

Below are some useful links to some awesome maya and nuke tutorials:

Bokeh Lens Shader Tutorial

Bokeh is a Japanese word for “blurred or fuzzy” (暈け) This is a real life phenomenon that occurs in photography where the light sources in an out of focus area of an image.

set driven keys tutorial

Use set driven keys in Maya 8.5 |► Check out this two-part Autodesk Maya 8.5 video tutorial on creating set driven keys. If you're and animator and your having trouble with your organic or unorganic animation, maybe this is your problem; it's a very powerful tool in 3D modeling in Maya. When ever you come into an object that you are constantly rotating, maybe you should put a set driven key on it, no?.

Tutorial: Mental Ray: Tone mapping - MIA Exposure Simple

mudbox - intro Example

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mudbox - introduction

To quickly get started working in Mudbox, we'll first go over the user interface and how to maneuver around to achieve an efficient workflow. http://www.auto...

Tutorials, Makings, Videos, Tutorial

Quality makings of the images created in 3ds max by the artists himself. Nothing can be better than this.

Getting Started with Mudbox Tutorial

To quickly get started working in Mudbox, we'll first go over the user interface and how to maneuver around to achieve an efficient workflow. http://www.auto...

3dLight: Portal Light: Part 1

Realistic Glass of Water

create realistic glass of water with Maya mental ray dielectric material

Linear Workflow, part 2

This is how I would deal with the linear workflow (including non-linear preview) between Maya 2010 and Nuke 6.0v6.

Linear Workflow, part 1

There seems to be a general confusion on linear workflows and how 3D/compositing packages work, what sRGB/gamma 2.2 is for and why it's a good idea to render images in linear data throughout the pipeline. This is my take on a linear workflow with Maya and Nuke as well as a bit of history on the subject.

LINEAR workflow quick - 1

MEL - sin,abs,min,max

YouTube - Create Dynamic Chain/Rope/Cable in Maya with Soft Bodies/Particles

A short tutorial on how to create a dynamic soft body chain simulation in Maya.

YouTube - SoftBodies Tutorial

A tutorial on softbodies and how to use them to create special effects. http://www.expression.edu/animation_visual_effects/

Spotlight Fog tutorial

general maya tutorials, 1000's of free professional level tutorials to learn all areas of maya.

Fluid Intro - MayaTutors's

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Tutorials - Maya Fluids - Fire - Part 1

Basic tutorial on Maya's goals

CGTalk, the CGSociety's official forum for digital artists

MIA TUTORIAL

MAYA: Bake Projection

Animation skeleton gallery

rope 1

30.000+ high resolution textures, free for personal and commercial use!

After Effects: Using the motion tracker - YouTube

Someone recently made a post on the creativecow.net After Effects Basics forum asking how to make one layer, such as a title, look like it was stuck to anoth...

CGArena : Expression to scale, rotate and spin

This tutorial is very handy to create, explosions like tank explosion, asteroid explosions in maya

maya_particle types

How To Inflate An Object - 3dtutorialzone.com

This tutorial teaches you how to inflate an object using nCloth.

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RealFlow 5′s Hybrido fluid solver | CG Channel

New three-part series of tutorials introduces users to powerful new hybrid grid/particle-based solver.

CategoryTopology - Polycount Wiki

Articulation Home Page

cgi modeling and rigging page for the 3d artist

metals and reflections

Mental Ray Contour Shader tutorial - TOI-Pedia

VIDEO COPILOT | After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins and Stock Footage for Post Production Professionals

High quality After Effects Video Tutorials for motion graphics and visual effects presented by Andrew Kramer

// Rendering a Toy with Mental Ray by Hani Mohammadi

This tutorial is going to focus on creating a material for a toy plane, and will also look at setting up the lights and preparing the scene for rendering

Craft Director tutorials

http://www.craftanimations.com, in Part 1 of this turbo tutorial on Craft 4-Wheeler Extended you will learn how to rig and animate a sports car through physi...

Craft Director Tools™ Help Pages

Tearing nCloth - 3dtutorialzone.com

This tutorial will teach you how to tear or rip nCloth in Maya.

Craft Trailer - Turbo Tutorial - YouTube

http://www.craftanimations.com - in this turbo tutorial on Craft Trailer you will learn how to rig trailers, caravans, truck trailers, 18-wheeler trailers an...

Final Gathering Accuracy

Maya nCloth - Section 4 - nCloth Constraints - YouTube

Crash Course in Maya nCloth - Section 4 - nCloth Constraints This video talks about most of the constraints available for nCloth. For the constraints, I show...

Building Dynamic Curves in Maya - YouTube

Learn how to use Maya Dynamic curve feature to create animation such as curtains, chains, ropes or wires.

mia_photometric_light Node explored - Tutorial - YouTube

In this session we will have a closer look at the mia_photometric_light. This node is not only allowing you to achieve more realistic lighting , but it will ...

miLabel_occlusion Incl/Excl

miaShader_attributes

learn mental ray nodes misss fast simple mia and mia material

Animated Pivot in Maya

realflow_settingsComparison

Painting textures in Maya on Vimeo

A basic introduction to texture painting in maya

256: Mental ray rendering fur with passes

tutorial channel

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Mia Material x Subsurface Scattering Hybrid in Maya

MentalRay Proxies

In today's quick tip, Dimitar Katerov will explain what proxy objects are, and how they can be used to render an insane amount of polygons in a single scene. If

mip_rayswitch 1/2 - YouTube

Continuing on my previous post Mental Ray Production Library Enabling mip Shaders .We can now start exploring the available new nodes. In this session we wil...

Playblast problem - hardware buffer

Hey there, when I try to make a playblast in maya all i get is the animation moving slowly in the maya viewport then fcheck opens and it is playing out a black image with no actual animation. This also happens when a use an avi file type(windows media player renders out a black image) I have maya 2011, any help would be appreciated, thanks.

nParticles

nparticles tutorial all attributes explained

8 bit vs. 16 bit vs. 32 bit - Photo.net Digital Darkroom Forum

Find answers to all your darkroom-related questions in the digital darkroom forum only at Photo.net.

// Indirect Illumination with GI and FG

Global Illumination, Final Gather and Caustics, these are the three individual elements that we commonly use as 3D artists to simulate the effects of bounced and focused light. We will explore each of these in the following sections with theory and practice.

Interior Lighting In Mental Ray

Interior Lighting In Mental Ray - posted in Tutorial Rendering ed illuminazione: - Link alla versione italiana: http://www.treddi.co...?showtopic=4858 English Translation by Gtsix http://www.pixeloverdrive.com This tutorial comes from the experience gained by me and other treddi.com members during the last months of tests made for reaching good quality interior renderings with Mental Ray. So I want to begin thanking all those who have contributed to the tests and shared his/her own exp...

mia_photometric_light Node

In this session we will have a closer look at the mia_photometric_light. This node is not only allowing you to achieve more realistic lighting , but it will also…

UV_textures

High Quality, High Resolution Textures and ZBrush Brushes.

nCloth - parameters

learn all ncloth attributes explained

User_IBL_env

http://elementalray.wordpress.com/?s=user+ibl

Tutorials - Nuke

NUKE_training - Understanding Nuke's unique Layer and Channel system (including the Shuffle Nodes) - Written Tutorials - Nukepedia

Understanding Nuke's layers and channels.

Shuffle Node in 5 Minutes - YouTube

A less than 5 minute tutorial showing how to use Nuke's SHUFFLE NODE. This is a quick & easy way to get started using the SHUFFLE NODE.

nuke masking

I always forget how to substract a mask inside a mask using nuke. I made another 5 minute tutorial showing the steps needed to create this. It's a quick & ea...