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Maya tutorials:character setup (5): facial animation with Wire Deformers

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:49:29 +0900

In this tutorial, I will explain the method of facial animation with Wire Deformers.

Maya tutorials:character setup (4): facial animation

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:18:56 +0900

In this tutorial, I will explain the method of animation of face of the character
(facial animation).
I will explain the setting of the constraints and the blend shape deformers.

Maya tutorials:character setup (3): IK handle

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:36:23 +0900

　
In this tutorial I will explain the method of setting the IK handles.

Maya tutorials:character setup (2): adjusting skin weights

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:40:33 +0900

The deformation not intended might happen to the smooth binded skin.
You should adjust the skin weights and control the deformation.

Maya tutorials: character setup (1): skeleton and skinning

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:37:51 +0900

To animate character objects,
you should setup the skeleton and make the objects skinned.
In this tutorial, I am going to explain how to construct joints
and how to bind the objects to the skeleton.

Maya Tutorials:making fireworks with particle

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:45:16 +0900

In this tutorial, I am going to explain how to make fireworks with particles.
You should setup particles for smoke effects which is shot into the air,
and spark effects.

maya particle: crushing building

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:42:46 +0900

Maya Tutorials:explosion using particle instancer

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:13:55 +0900

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to generate exploding pieces with particle instancer and particle expressions.

Maya Tutorials:particle expressions

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:02:50 +0900

In this tutorial, I will explain how to randomize the particle radius with expressions.

Maya Tutorials:basics of particle

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:53:00 +0900

If you control particle, you should set up many attributes.
And there are many methed to control particle.
I will explain how to set up particle in a simple way.

Maya tutorials:material animation

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:15:19 +0900

Maya tutorials: rendering animation

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:04:01 +0900

To render an animation, you must set up the Render Settings.

Maya tutorials:the camera work with the motion path

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:39:35 +0900

If you use the Motion Path with camera, you can set the camera target by the path
and you can make smooth rotation of camara view.

Maya tutorials:cluster animation

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:42:26 +0900

Keyframes can be set directly to CV and Vertices,
but the setting becomes complex because there are a lot of numbers,
or you would forget which group you have set keyframe.

You can make groups with Cluster Deformer.

Maya tutorials：attribute animation

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:01:55 +0900

How to set up the keyframes to the attributes of the material and how to edit them in the spread sheet and the Graph Editor.