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[Video] Tagging a Rig in Softimage/XSI

This short lesson from Noesis Interactive outlines the steps to “tag a rig” in Softimage/XSI. This process teaches you how to set up your rigs so that you can re-target animations and apply motion capture data to different 3D characters. Animators and Riggers focusing on video game development will find this tutorial very useful. INFO: […]

Reflections Part One

Overview You just finished your photo-realistic model of a car. You have asigned a blinn shader and you’ve cranked up reflectivity 100%. You’re all set in mental ray with raytracing. You hit render and your car looks matted, no reflections. (NOTE This is a beginner’s tutorial. Most average Maya users will have already learned to […]

Modeling Old School Rim in Maya

Introduction In this tutorial I will explane you how to make Old school rim. Step 1 First make the Polygon Cylinder. Step 2 Then delete top and bottom faces to look like this on picture. Step 3 Select all top edges end extrude with tool witch you can find in Edit mash – Extrude. Step […]

Making of “Voodoo Doll” (part 5/6)

Part 5 of this tutorial will explore adding a quick shadow pass to help enhance certain forms, and will continue adding details. While watching this process we will discuss the emotional side of art, tackling subjects like quality and efficiency in hopes to offer definitive ways that you can help greatly improve the quality and […]

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 […]