Yr 3 maya Tutorial: Mental Ray: Using Maya Layered Shaders with Mental Ray Nodes

Year 3 Maya Tutorial - Lighting Profiles: IES Lighting Information Files

Year 3 Maya week 1: Mental Ray: Round Corners Node

Year 3 Maya Tutorial: Ambient Occlusion Lighting & Light Decay

Year 3 Maya Tutorials - Using Ambient Occlusion with Displacment Maps

Year 3 Maya Tutorials - Sub Surface Scattering Part 2: Cartoon Shader

MAYA TUTORIAL: SUB-SURFACE SCATTERING

YEAR 2, TERM 2 - LINKS TO MAYA TUTORIALS

 Links to Maya Tutorials

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/maya-term-2-explosion.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/maya-tutorial-omni-emitter-fuse.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/maya-tutorial-smokedrain.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/maya-tutorial-fireworks-2.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/maya-tutorials-shockwave.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/maya-tutorials-water-foam.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/maya-tutorial-volume-emitter-space.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/maya-tutorials-curve-flow.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/maya-tutorials-fireworks-2.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/maya-tutorials-airship-particle.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorial-bowling-alley_7.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorial-oil-barrel.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorias-coke-can.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorial-instancing-part-1.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorial-instancing-part-2-scale.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorial-instancing-part-3.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorial-instancing-part-4-object.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorials-instancing-part-5-object.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorial-particle-collision-rain.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorial-particle-collision-metal.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorial-instancing-part-6-aim.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/maya-tutorial-instancing-part-7-aim.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/maya-tutorial-instancing-part-10.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/maya-tutorial-instancing-part-11.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/maya-tutorial-mental-ray-transitioning.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/maya-tutorial-instancing-part-12.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/maya-tutorial-goals-part-1-mud-drop.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/maya-tutorial-goals-part-2-controlled.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/maya-tutorial-mental-ray-optimisation_6175.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/maya-tutorial-mental-ray-motion-blur.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/maya-tutorial-mental-ray-depth-of-field.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/maya-tutorial-instancing-part-9.html

http://small-brown-dog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/maya-tutorials-games-character.html

MAYA TUTORIALS: Games Character Modelling & UVs

MAYA TUTORIAL: Instancing Part 9: Instances & Paint Effects (Trees)

ADAPTATION: "Plop" Textured turnaround

Ta-Da! "Plop" turnaround

ADAPTATION: Plop flying playblast

A bit jerky, and I haven't done the ball dynamics, but here is a playblast of Plop trying to fly:

Adaptation: I have achieved an owl!

I'll post the pipeline and decision type stuff later, when I get some feeling back in my hand!

MAYA TUTORIAL: Mental Ray: Depth of Field Methods - Part 1

MAYA TUTORIAL: Mental Ray: Motion Blur Methods

PART 1

PART 2



PART 3



PART 4

MAYA TUTORIAL: Mental Ray: Optimisation

rendertime 0.46   40bsp
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : main bsp tree statistics:
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : max depth         : 40
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : max leaf size     : 66
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : average depth     : 35
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : average leaf size : 7
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : leafnodes         : 648727
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : bsp size (Kb)     : 37795

rendertime 0.46   45bsp
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : main bsp tree statistics:
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : max depth         : 45
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : max leaf size     : 66
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : average depth     : 35
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : average leaf size : 7
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : leafnodes         : 633009
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : bsp size (Kb)     : 36980

rendertime 0.48  50bsp
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : main bsp tree statistics:
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : max depth         : 50
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : max leaf size     : 66
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : average depth     : 35
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : average leaf size : 7
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : leafnodes         : 646827
RCI  0.3    374 MB info : bsp size (Kb)     : 37689

rendertime 0.50   6bsp
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : main bsp tree statistics:
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : max depth         : 60
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : max leaf size     : 66
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : average depth     : 35
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : average leaf size : 7
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : leafnodes         : 649259
RCI  0.3    375 MB info : bsp size (Kb)     : 37839

MAYA TUTORIAL: Goals Part 2: Controlled Mud Drop

MAYA TUTORIAL: Goals Part 1: Mud Drop

MAYA TUTORIAL: Instancing Part 12: Animation Cycles (Spiders)