lcReproject.cgfx A Novel Texturing Technique Using CGFX Shaders to Create Textures

lcReproject.cgfx A Novel Texturing Technique Using CGFX Shaders to Create Textures

Using a CGFX shader, inspired by Brice Vandermoortele’s Normal Map Reprojection Shader, to create effects like metal textures pretty easily using lit sphere images and cubemaps where you are able to reproject color and normal textures to a new UV Set. Check out this article by Leonardo Covarrubias for 1cReproject cgfx A Texturing Technique Using [...]

Maya Tips for Faster Modeling Tutorial

Faster Modeling Maya tutorial

“Dennis Jensen” from Poly-Face.com is showing some Maya modeling tips that will speed up your Maya modeling workflow and make you a faster modeler.  Check out Poly-Face.com for other great tutorials. Maya Tips for Faster Modeling Tutorial From Dennis Jensen : Modelling is one of the most important tools in the 3d ansernal. It is important [...]

Using Maya Backburner for Rendering on Amazon EC2

Maya Backburner for Rendering

“Jud Pratt” recently posted a bunch of video tutorials on how to render from Autodesk Creative Products to the Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (Amazon EC2), and even more recently he has posted a tutorial on how to render from Maya to the Amazon EC2 Cloud for a fairly cheap rendering solution. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud [...]

Sunday Pipeline Maya V-Ray Shader Library

V-Ray Shader Library Sunday pipeline

“Oliver Markowski” is the creator of the full blown images for public domain V-Ray Shaders for Maya.  Jonas Avrin has cleaned them up a bit, organized them and created a Sunday Pipeline Warehouse for them.  V-Ray Shader Library for Maya Sunday Pipeline is available now. From “Jonas” : “I took the VRay shader library from [...]

Maya Tips in Three minutes "Constraints, Add Attribute & Set Driven Key"

In this Maya Tips in Three minutes Tutorial Series author “Ronan” going to show us -Constraining an IK control to an object. -Creating an Attribute to switch the constraint weight on or off. -Set driven key for that attribute. TUTORIAL: Maya Tips (ep.13) “Constraints, Add Attribute, Set Driven Key” from Ronan on Vimeo.

Recreating Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Titles in Maya & After Effects

In This Five part of Tutorial series from “RampanTV” We ‘ll see How to recreate the animated text introduction similar to the Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Titles using Maya & After Effects. PREVIEW: Impossible Title – RampantDesignTools.com from Rampant Design Tools on Vimeo. TUTORIAL SERIES 1 To 5 :- TUTORIAL PART 1-5 (1 of 5) [...]