Maya Class: Spline IK's

Using Spline IK's to create animation!

Maya Class: Practical MEL scripting

Random Placement

 

MEL script for placing objects randomly.

Creating an Interface

Testing MEL script in order to create a character interface.

Maya Class: Part 3: Bullet Active, Passive, & Rigid Body Sets

Maya Class: Conditional Squash & Stretch

How to achieve squash and Stretch while keeping the bend in the arm/leg.

Maya Class: Basic Squash, Stretch, & Volume Preservation

Learning basic squash and stretch to apply to characters!

Maya Tutorial: Mental Ray Part 5- Portal Lights & Mental Ray Part 6- Mia Material X Shader

 Mental Ray Part 5- Portal Lights 

Mental Ray Part 6- Mia Material X Shader

For some reason the checker didn't show up but the textures look fine. 

Maya Tutorial: Mental Ray Part 4- Physical Sun & Sky

Dynamics Part 14: Animated Instances

Maya Tutorial: Shader FX Part 3- Lighting & Shader FX Part 4- Transparency

Shader FX Part 3- Lighting

Shader FX Part 4- Transparency

Maya Tutorials: Shader FX Part 1- Intro to Shader FX Networks & Shader FX Part 2- Displacement

 Shader FX Part 1- Intro to Shader FX Networks

Shader FX Part 2- Displacement

These tutorials were a little slow as Maya really didn't want to work for me. I'm looking into upgrading my PC as I think my RAM or Graphics Card may be causing the problem. 

Maya Tutorials: Dynamics Part 15- Goal Weights

Maya Tutorial: Dynamics Part 9- Curve Flow & Dynamics Part 11- Collision Events

Maya Tutorial: Dynamics Part 5- Volume Emitters & Dynamics Part 8- Surface Emission

Maya Tutorial: Dynamics Part 6 - Emit From Curve

Maya Tutorial: Dynamics Part 12- Instancing Objects

Maya Tutorial: Dynamics Part 7- Per Point Emission

Maya Tutorial: Dynamics Part 10- Emit from Particles

Adaptation B: Clean Models Complete

 Plastic Beetle Model

Plastic Beetle Mesh

Glass Beetle Model 

Glass Beetle Mesh

Adaptation B: Modelling near completion

Continued Glass modelling Progress

Glass Model before touching up

Continued Plastic Modelling Progress

Plastic Model before touching up

My models for Glass and Plastic are pretty much completed. Other than touching them up and adding geometry where needed, I'll be ready to UV soon. 

Adaptation B: Modelling Progress

Glass arms and hands

I'm close to finishing the Glass model, I need to add some more geometry around the arms and continue with the hands, feet and wings. I'm still debating on how my wings will attach onto my model and hopefully I will find the most effective way of doing this.

Plastic Body and Mouth

I felt a lot more confident when modelling the Plastic model, I need to model the legs and feet, hands and the antennae.