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1. Maya UI Intro    worldofmaya.com

2. Maya Ambient Occlusion | 4sidedpolygon.com    4sidedpolygon.com

3. Using Projection Mapping in Maya    en.9jcg.com

4. Getting started with MentalRay Final Gather    en.9jcg.com

5. Creating a Next-Gen Environment Setting    en.9jcg.com

6. Fast and Easy SSS Fake in Maya    en.9jcg.com

7. Final Gathering in Maya MentalRay    en.9jcg.com

8. TGLTLSBFSSP: Radiosity    freespace.virgin.net

9. Uninstancer for Maya    learnfobia.com

10. Javier "Goosh" Solsona - Working with Expressions and Constrains    student.vfs.com

11. Understanding Maya - John Edgar Park    understandingmaya.com

12. Maya Tools    web.alfredstate.edu

modeling tools: Spline curve, revolved surface, lofted surfaces, Planar Srufaces, and attaching curves and nurbs.

13. 3 Dimensions - 3D Cola can    3dimensions.us

14. 3 Dimensions - Normal mapping    3dimensions.us

Unhide 01, select 02 and open Render to texture dialog

15. The Making of Peugeot 907 - Community for CG Artists    3dm3.com

September 13, 2005 | Stryker

16. 3D Compositing at 3dRender.com    3drender.com

Highlight passes (sometimes called specular passes) isolate the specular highlights from your objects. You can render highlight passes by turning off any ambient light and making the object's diffuse shading and color mapping to pure black. The result will be a rendering of all the specular highlights in the scene, over a black background, without any other types of shading.

17. Controlling Displacement Maps    3dtotal.com

18. Using Revolve - 3dtutorialzone.com    3dtutorialzone.com

19. Making A PSD Network In Maya - 3dtutorialzone.com    3dtutorialzone.com

20. Boolean Modeling in Maya - 3dtutorialzone.com    3dtutorialzone.com

21. HDRIs In Maya - 3dtutorialzone.com    3dtutorialzone.com

22. Using The Plug-In Manager - 3dtutorialzone.com    3dtutorialzone.com

23. Creating Lightning In Maya - 3dtutorialzone.com    3dtutorialzone.com

24. Using The Viewport - 3dtutorialzone.com    3dtutorialzone.com

25. Normals - 3dtutorialzone.com    3dtutorialzone.com

26. Modeling With A Live Object - 3dtutorialzone.com    3dtutorialzone.com

27. Creating A Halftone In Maya - 3dtutorialzone.com    3dtutorialzone.com

28. Perception and Composition    androidblues.com

I'll focus on the 'Non-Human'. It's obvious why we would like the 'Human', and easy to use this - even without knowing it - in art. In fact we do all the time.

29. Maya 3D Max 3D Links resources for 3D artists    blackorb.com

30. Welcome to CGarchitect.com    cgarchitect.com

5. Sunlight illumination

31. Making of Cheese Platter    cgarena.com

32. Making of Fatjon's Performance - CGArena    cgarena.com

33. CGArena : Making of Ingrid Bergman    cgarena.com

34. Making of Meet You - CGArena    cgarena.com

35. CGArena : Modeling Morgane    cgarena.com

36. Multi Displacement Setup in Maya    cgarena.com

37. CGArena : Revolution    cgarena.com

38. Making of Say Cheese - CGArena    cgarena.com

39. CGArena : Making of Sohrab    cgarena.com

40. CGArena : Making of TigerZoo    cgarena.com

41. CGArena : Making of Moff    cgarena.com

2) UV map and texture

42. Making of Dream - CGArena    cgarena.com

43. Making of Manolia - CGArena    cgarena.com

I already know the overall look of the final illustration. As I know which parts are visible at the end, for evident reasons of optimization I remove the backfaces -almost the half of the head. I'll have some more definition with UV's, Render process and speed up my ZBrush's performance.

44. ME -Script Editor    cgsutra.com

45. Get rid of the photographer    cgtechniques.com

This is an old tutorial i wrote to remember how i did it, but since some month is a better tutorial on the Hdrshop webpage.

46. ConceptArt.org Version 3.0    conceptart.org

47. Shipbuilding_tutorial    digitalanimators.com

48. Digital-Tutors > The page has moved    digitaltutors.com

49. Generating and using normal maps in Maya    drone.org

(some sample shaders and scenes)

50. RayDisplace Mental Updates    drone.org

(what's new for minor releases)

51. final3 driven keys    final3.com

setDrivenKeyframe -cd nHandControl.Index jIndex_base.rotateZ; setDrivenKeyframe -cd nHandControl.Index jIndex_middle.rotateZ; setDrivenKeyframe -cd nHandControl.Index jIndex_top.rotateZ; We are not going to do anything withthis now, but keep these lines in the back of your head. Continue setting up the finger. At "nHandControl.index" = -10 rotate the joints a bit backwards and set keys to all of them. WRITE DOWN THE VALUES YOU GET!!! in Notepad or somewhere because these values are important when we want to use MEL later.

52. final3 nut    final3.com

This will be the base we can copy several times to get the whole bolt. Duplicate it once and move it 1.52 in the z-axis. You'll see that the duplicate lands exactly where the other stops.... Why is that? Because the height of the helix is 1.52 :)

53. Conditional formatting Excel 2007: Learn with Examples    free-training-tutorial.com

54. Blast Code - Creating Cracks    free3dtutorials.com

55. Blast Code - Fields    free3dtutorials.com

56. The Explorer    free3dtutorials.com

Progression of my texture work , at this point I begun lighting work. I used Dome light script for GI ambient atmostphere light. After I finished lighting, I begun to fine tune my texture. I wanted my model to look old as it was used for a long time so I added more dirt to texture map. Alien shader used subsurface scattering in maya to acheive the creature-skin look.

57. gfx-scene | Das Grafik-Magazin    gfx-scene.de

58. TU Delft - ID Studiolab    io.tudelft.nl

ID-StudioLab is a community of researchers, teachers and students, who share a focus on designing for user experiences. The aim of ID-StudioLab is to promote connections between people and projects within the faculty in the field of user experience.

59. HOMEPAGE - CARSTEN KOLVE    kolve.com

$rA = 2.0; $rB = 1.0;

60. Samples Tips    lamrug.org

After four corners of a min sample area are taken, the contrast between the corners is used to determine whether or not 5 more samples will be taken, effectively subdividing the area. This can be repeated by as many levels of difference as there are between min and max samples.

61. Maya Pit - Point and Aim Constraints together / Point- und Aim Constraints gleichzeitig    maxschoenherr.de

62. Maya 4.5 Preview - A Diary / Ein Tagebuch    maxschoenherr.de

(Nurbs) Surfaces Shelf

63. Welcome to MeniThings.com    menithings.com

64. Jerry's Homepage    motiondesign.biz

First of all I have to say that there are two ways (or maybe even more !) to simulate Subsurface scattering.

65. Noir.org - Modeling using CPS    noir.org

66. Converting a Maya 4.0 file to Maya 4.5    persistentvisions.com

1. Save your Maya 4.5 out in ascii format (.ma) 2. + click on the resultant file and Select Open With: 3. Select Wordpad or notepad or another text editor from the list (or Browse to the location of notepad.exe) 4. The ascii file should look similar to this:

67. Converting a Maya 5.0 file to Maya 4.5    persistentvisions.com

Notes before you begin:

68. Modeling an LCD Screen in Maya    republicofcode.com

This tutorial will teach you how to model a basic LCD screen in Maya using some of the very basic tools such as the extrude tool, the scale tool, the move tool, and the split polygon object tool. This is a beginner tutorial and you are not required to have anything more than basic knowledge on how to use Maya. In the first page of this tutorial you will create the main shape of our LCD screen and the second page will describe the way to create the extra details such as the stand and the buttons. An example of what you can make by following this tutorial is illustrated in the image below.

69. Pre-visualisation | rethinkfx    rethinkfx.com

Recently the phrase ‘pre-visualisation’ has been used more and more in the effects world. What is it and what exactly is the benefit?

70. Emelia - a production diary    sharktacos.com

71. ImagePlane Setup    strarup.net

I have splitted this tutorial about ImagePlane setup in 2 parts...

72. Organic Modeling Part 1    thegnomonworkshop.com

This article was printed in the 1998 siggraph issue of 3D Design magazine, 'Organic Modeling and Animation in Maya V.1', Alex Alvarez

73. TrueCG - How to influence an object    truecg.com

Discuss this tutorial on our forum!

74. TrueCG - Modeling Kempston Pro Joystick    truecg.com

In this tutorial you will learn how to model kempston pro joystick using polygons and NURBS. References can be found on google images.

75. Tutorialsworld.com - Making a Blizzard    tutorialsworld.com

Before starting this tutorial it would be a good idea to look at my previous tutorials about particle instancers.

76. How to change the Maya Start Screen    worldofmaya.com