LCD Monitor

Hi every friends! in this tutorial we will learn the basic modeling in Alias Maya version 6.0 in this tutorial we will use allot extrude, scale, move,  and split polygon object to create a LCD Monitor. This tutorial specially for beginners for those who start Maya since few months. Once again I would like to […]

Maya Cloth tutorial

In this tutorial we will learn how to simulate Maya cloth effect with uniform field to react the forces. dynamics are widely use in Maya before going to start this tutorial you should have basic knowledge of Maya i am using Maya version 7.0 you can use any version regardless. Lets start open Maya or […]

Modeling a head using Nurbs-Polygon technique by Sasan Rafiee

In this technique we first create a low detail head by nurbs patch modeling then convert it to a polygon object, then we add detail to it. The reason is that we have more control on the basic shape in Nurbs modeling and then we apply powerful tools in polygon modeling to add details. You […]

How create a simple crowd

INTRODUCTION To execute this tutorial you must download and install CrowdMaker 0.5 (or higher). You can download the file at this link: web.tiscali.it/maya_tutorial . The “CrowdMaker 0.5.rar” contains some scripts, a text file with an installation guide and sample scenes. On the next pages you can see the procedure to create a scene and the […]

High polygon realistic character creation

This is an overview of creating high polygon realistic 3D characters  ( with a particular leaning toward the creation of the above model ). My inspiration for writing it, was that as a long time videogame artist used to working with real-time constraints, I wanted to learn high resolution modeling techniques, and I couldn’t really find […]

Building a Polygon Arch

This tutorial will show the method I used for making my arches in a building. There is obviously more than one way to do it. This is not the standard method to make an arch, it is just my way of making them. Let us begin…. 1. Whenever I start up a new project, I […]

The progress of modelling a Character

1. I am modelling this character using Maya 4. The sole purpose of making this character is fun. At this time, I dont really know where it will all end, but lets see how it evolves :) This is where the screenshorts start. To sum up what happend, then I started by creating a poly […]

Instancer And Curve Flow Tutorial By Aziz Khan

Hello Friends! In this tutorial I will show you how to use (Curve flow) with instancer to create flock of birds, insects, Fishes, sheep’s, cows and etc. Maya has wide range of powerful effects to create unbelievable animations and visual effects, that is why the most film industries are prefer to work with Maya. In […]

Character Walk Through

Hello there. Welcome to my character walk through I’m not sure if you can call this a tutorial as I will just be showing different stages in the building of a character called Kreacher Kreacher is a house elf character taken from the harry potter books But first and what I will be showing the […]

Ford Focus Tutorial Series by Alex: Part 4

FORD FOCUS PART 4 Hi everyone and welcome to the final part of the Ford Focus tutorial series. While this is the last part of modelling the body , there might be more tutorials on detailing and interior. This is just for those who want to smooth out their model ready for texturing and son […]

Ford Focus Tutorial Series by Alex: Part 3

Hi everyone. Well without further blabber let’s get started. 1. Create a polygon cube and set the subdivisions along height to 15 and along width to 5. Then scale it so it fits exactly one half of the car. 2. Delete the side faces so that when we mirror and convert to Sub-D later we […]

Ford Focus Tutorial Series by Alex: Part 2

Hi everyone and welcome to part 2 of how to model a Ford Focus. We will be starting out simple by creating wheels for the car. Well actually we will be creating two different designs. This just to show you how easy it is to do and how you can make any design you want […]

Ford Focus Tutorial Series by Alex: Part 1

Hi everyone. This is part 1 of my tutorial series on how to model a ford focus WRX. In this part you will learn how to properly set up the image planes. Now you might think that we should get straight into modeling but reference images are very important and this is just a good […]

Creating High Res Polygonal Models

Outline I. OverviewII. What Are Smoothed Polygons?III. Why Use Smoothed Polygons? Advantages:1. Simplicity2. Intuitive interface (no stitching).3. Speed of production.4. Built in level of detail.5. Single texture map for entire character.6. All areas of the texture will be proportional to each other. Disadvantages:1. Requires UV layout2. Cannot add or remove edges after laying out UVs […]