True to form, and as promised, I have gone and prepared a variable feast of delicious Maya morsels for all you starving Maya users out there. The table is set and the plates are full...so what are you waiting for...dig in!

Creative Cow - Creating a Logo

Model a logo from vector artwork. Part 1 Part 2.

How to Rig a Computer Mouse

Learn how to create bones, ik handles, rig controls, and paint weights. Also learn how to use some MEL scripts.

Creating a Realistic Light Lamp

Create a believable lamplight by using multiple lights to achieve the final effect.

Creating Realistic Candle Flames

Make realistic candle flames by using different shaders and multiple point lights.

Paint Effects - Modifier

Explore how to use the modifiers with paint effects.

Paint Effects - Select By Name

This video will walk you through selecting by name with paint effects.

Paint Effects - Share One Brush

This video will walk you through Paint Effects - Sharing one Brush.

Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering a Believable Eye

Model, texture, and render eyeballs. Note: You must have an account, so fill in the form that pops up, confirm your account, and click the link again to access the tutorial page. Existing Gnomon users can login here: Login. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4.

Controlling Fog Density

Learn how to control Fog Density and use it to create certain effects for your scenes. Note: This is a Gnomon tutorial, and uses the same accessibility method as above.

Realistic Candle Flames with Shaders

Another candle flame tutorial, but with a different approach to achieve amazing results. Note: This is a Gnomon tutorial, and uses the same accessibility method as above.

Particle Emission When Objects Collide

Use dynamics to make particles emit from objects or surfaces when they collide with each other. Note: This is a Gnomon tutorial, and uses the same accessibility method as above.

Arm Set-Up with IK/FK

Rig an arm with IK/FK rigging. Note: This is a Gnomon tutorial, and uses the same accessibility method as above.

Irradiance Particles in Mental Ray

Learn to work with Irradiance Particles and lower your render times while balancing out the render quality of your image using custom techniques and settings.

Sub Scattering of Particles

Use sub scattering of particles, or set up lights that are sufficient enough to shine through flesh or other objects.

UV Mapping Techniques and Workflow

Learn some handy UV mapping techniques from Semir Saleh.

UV Sets in Maya

Some great techniques on how to create UV Sets.

Creating Realistic Glass

Explore how to create realistic looking glass with 3 different materials.

Next Gen Vehicle Creation

Check out the making of this awesome next-gen vehicle, including high and low res modeling, UV layout, and texture creation and baking.

Building for Speed

Learn some techniques to speed up your modeling workflow.

UV Enhancements: Unwrapping a Head

In this video we take a look at Maya 2009's UV enhancement features, and how they can help to unwrap the UVs on a human head.

Understanding Level of Detail Groups

This video covers how to create LOD (Level of Detail) groups inside of Maya.

Easy Normal Map Creation

This video examines how we can easily export a normal map from high poly geometry using Maya 2009's new render pass features.

Face Modeling

Instructor Ryan Kittleson shows us how he polygon models the face in this step by step tutorial.

Creating a Stormy Ocean

Learn how to create an ocean surface, set the stormy ocean characteristics, add a camera and fog, and then render the whole scene.

Create a Spaceship Fleet using Particle Instancing

Bogdan Amidzic shows you how to use the particle instancer to create a fleet of spaceships flying across the planes.

Creating an Old Farm

Learn how to model, texture, and render a realistic looking farmhouse property.

Modeling a Sunbathing American Alligator

Model a highly realistic sunbathing American Alligator.

Human Anatomy UV Coordinates Setup for Texturing

Learn how to create your UV texture maps correctly so they don't blur or stretch.

Making of Varga

See how this amazing piece of art was created using reference artwork, normal mapping, and a lot of time.

Creating and Modeling a Character - Mad Eye Moody

If you like Harry Potter, you will like this. Even though it looks nothing like Mad Eye, the tutorial takes you through modeling and rigging a head.

Box Modeling the Male Body

Learn how to model a full male body from the starting point of a box.

Head Poly Modeling Tutorial

Learn how to poly model a monster head.

Making of Cheese Platter

Using lots of reference images, learn how Hau Ming created an awesome still life 3D render.

Texture Maps NURBS Dragon

Learn how to 3D paint texture maps onto a NURBS dragon model.

Making of Trapped

Recreate a picture of a parrot biting at its cage by modeling it in 3d.

Object Spreading Methods

Learn how to paint an object onto a surface, use a map driven spreading method, and use a particle instancer. You will also learn about animation driven spreading and Melscripting issues.

Making Car Rims

Make some realistic chrome car rims.

Model a Rocket with a Particle Trail

Explore how to create a rocket using NURBS, and then animate its movement using path curve and then make a simple smoke trail.

Growing Flowers

Learn how to create growing flowers from a surface. The flowers will gradually and randomly grow, and will retain their original status when they reach to growing limit.

Bone Based Mouth Setup

This is a tutorial for advanced Maya users, and provides an alternative to the standard facial setup using blend shapes.

Model a Screwdriver and Render with Mental Ray

This tutorial will teach you how to make a screw-driver and render it with Final Gather, Global Illumination, HDRI, and Depth of Field.

Setting Up Studio Lighting

Alejandro shows you how to setup basic studio lighting in Maya 2008 using Mental Ray.

Paint Geometry Tool

This tutorial covers the basics of Maya's Paint Geometry Tool. This can be very useful when adding anything that needs to be duplicated and randomized across a given surface.

Create a Double Sides Shader

In this tutorial Alejandro shows you two ways of creating double-sided shaders in Maya.

Mental Ray's Physical Sun and Sky

Here Alejandro shows you how to set up Mental Ray's Physical Sun and Sky and explains it's main attributes.

Raytraced Shadow Fix

When rendering raytrace shadows through alpha channels you might get an extra unwanted shadow. Here Alejandro shows you how to get rid of that.

Talk about Fluid Transparency

This is a nice talk on how to understand fluid transparency.

Fluid Rendering Optimizations

Learn a bunch of key techniques for speeding up fluids renders.

Overburn Techniques

Check out this awesome tutorial on creating a metor from scratch and using Peter Shipkov's Overburn Technique. Overburn Script.

Pose and Render an Image

Learn how to pose and manipulate a rig for rendering images.

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