| | | | Service: Alihusen Kapadia
by Alihusen Kapadia on May 10, 2013 at 6:30:15 pm
in the COW - Services Forum
EXPERIENCE
UTV Toons (Texture artist 2007-2008)
Mumbai, India
Worked on a couple of 2D & 3D Projects like “Alice and Wonderland” (2D) and “Freeje” (3D).
Job profile:
Unwrapping characters scenes.
Painting seamless textures in Photoshop.
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| | | | Alihusen Kapadia
by Alihusen Kapadia on May 10, 2013 at 11:30:15 am
in the Forum
EXPERIENCE UTV Toons (Texture artist 2007-2008) Mumbai, India Worked on a couple of 2D & 3D Projects like “Alice and Wonderland” (2D) and “Freeje” (3D). Job profile: Unwrapping characters scenes. Painting seamless textures in Photoshop. Making custom | | | | |
| | | | trouble importing illustrator spline
by Eugene Hooper on Apr 2, 2013 at 10:04:07 am
in the Autodesk 3ds Max Forum
Hey guys, I'm having trouble importing an illustrator file into my max scene. I've used a project file from digital tutors and that imports fine. I'm aware that I need to convert the illustrator file to version 8 or older, but I still get the error m | | | | |
| | | | Re: GPU support for Smoke 2013
by Brian Mulligan on Feb 11, 2013 at 2:46:50 pm
in the Autodesk Smoke 2013 Forum
The Smoke Learning Channel on YouTube.
and see this thread.
http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-smoke/smoke-2013/user-created-video-tutorials-collection-for-smoke/
Also fxphd.com and Digital Tutors have paid content. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Looking for a place to start
by Ben van Hamelen on Jan 20, 2013 at 6:27:05 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Hi Lee,
Yeah, I think Digital Tutors is pretty much the best source for beginners and intermediates. But FXPHD has some nice 101 courses as well, just not as many. The Gnomon Workshop also has stuff starting from intermediate to advanced. Those th | | | | |
| | | | Re: Student Project - using real life footage with Maya
by Ben van Hamelen on Jan 18, 2013 at 2:08:46 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Roughly, the pipeline would be like this:
1) Shoot your footage. Always keep a shot-by-shot list which includes focal length and aperture. You'll need this later, along with the size of your camera's film back.
2) If necessary, convert it to a PN | | | | |
| | | | Re: Looking for a place to start
by Ben van Hamelen on Jan 9, 2013 at 9:07:46 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Hi Martin,
I always recommend people who are just starting out to take a look at the Digital Tutors courses, especially their Introduction to Maya course. It's where I started and it gave me the best start imaginable. It has you making stuff withi | | | | |
| | | | Re: Beginner Needing Advice!
by Chris Irvin on Aug 31, 2012 at 12:10:16 am
in the MAYA Forum
Thank you very much for the response your comments have been taken on board. Sorry for the slow response i've been away on holiday.
My Macbook pro is a dual processor, i have a tv screen i can link my mac up to for a larger display would this he | | | | |
| | | | Re: Beginner Needing Advice!
by Ben van Hamelen on Aug 22, 2012 at 8:33:00 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Hi there,
I think your Macbook will do for now. I only have slight doubts about the processor. Is it a single or dual core processor? The memory, while not plenty, should suffice for now. 4gb is the minimum, 8gb is good, 16gb is better, 32 gb is j | | | | |
| | | | Re: Best tutorials for learning cinema 4d
by Tim Vaughan on Apr 20, 2012 at 4:56:46 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
I wish there was an answer that I could give that would be your one-stop-shop, but I'm afraid you kinda have to visit various sites and costs. These are in no particular order, just whatever pops in the mind first. All have their strengths overall, b | | | | |
| | | | Re: Snapping/rigid body/good tutorials?
by Steve Sayer on Mar 5, 2012 at 2:57:45 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Hello, Sala.
1. It sounds like your Move tool has 'discrete move' activated, which is different than snapping. This feature restricts movement to user-defined increments, e.g. 1 unit at a time, or 1.5 units, and so on. Open your tool settings wind | | | | |
| | | | Service: Rodolfo Pauletto
by Rodolfo Pauletto on Feb 13, 2012 at 1:03:06 pm
in the COW - Services Forum
Internship / Art Director
UpGrade Com. Total - September, 2000 - June, 2001
Loducca - July, 2001 - October,2001
W/Brasil - April, 2002 - July, 2002
Leo Burnett - July, 2002 - September, 2002
Art Director
DM9DDB - October, 2002 - March, 2007
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| | | | Rodolfo Pauletto
by Rodolfo Pauletto on Feb 13, 2012 at 5:03:06 am
in the Forum
One thing that I've learned after 10 years working at advertising agencies is that everything always changes. You have to be flexible, and that's what I've mastered. Creativity, design, animation, 3D, composition, storytelling, entertainment, retail, | | | | |
| | | | Re: Intro to Maya tutorials
by Ben van Hamelen on Jan 30, 2012 at 8:44:25 am
in the MAYA Forum
Digital Tutors offers some great introduction to Maya courses. It's how I learned it, really. It covers everything you need to know to start off, from modeling to texturing and from animating to rendering.
Note: the course is long. At least 20 hou | | | | |
| | | | Re: How do you texture a sphere in maya?
by Ben van Hamelen on Nov 20, 2011 at 7:52:20 pm
in the MAYA Forum
I'll give you the rough walkthrough:
1. Open the Hypershader
2. Create a new Lambert.
3. Double-click the Lambert. It'll now open it in the Attribute editor on the right. Click on the small checker-button on the right of 'Color'.
4. Select file | | | | |
| | | | Re: Best way to learn C4D?
by Michael Szalapski on Oct 28, 2011 at 8:20:11 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
You could try Digital Tutors. There are enough demo videos for C4D that you can check them out and see if their style is right for you.
There's also Lynda.com.
And, of course, the Making It Look Great series.
I haven't tried Vertex Pusher yet, I | | | | |
| | | | Service: Impatient Cow
by Nathan Buchanan on Aug 23, 2011 at 8:53:00 pm
in the COW - Services Forum
Impatient Cow is a television production company specializing in commercials, long form videos, and special effects. We do everything from production to motion graphics, animation and compositing. We work with the RED camera, Final Cut Studio, DaVin | | | | |
| | | | Impatient Cow
by Nathan Buchanan on Aug 23, 2011 at 1:53:00 pm
in the Forum
Impatient Cow is a television production company specializing in commercials, long form videos, and special effects. We do everything from production to motion graphics, animation and compositing. We work with the RED camera, Final Cut Studio, DaVinc | | | | |
| | | | Re: 3D paint in Maya 2011
by Tegan Radford on May 28, 2011 at 5:09:35 am
in the MAYA Forum
Hey Grant!
Thank you so much, I was freaking out as my assignment due date is fast looming!
I went to the digital tutors website and actually signed up for months account and found tutorials on uv mapping, 3D painting etc and using photoshop to p | | | | |
| | | | Re: 3D paint in Maya 2011
by Grant Gomm on May 27, 2011 at 5:31:24 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Hi Tegan,
I'm not sure how to explain how to do that in just one post. It's kind of involved. But I highly recommend you check out digital tutors tutorial "Texture Painting with Maya and Photoshop". There are some concepts that I think are fundam | | | | |
| | | | Re: Easiest way to make this? Maya 7
by Ben van Hamelen on May 23, 2011 at 9:53:34 am
in the MAYA Forum
I wouldn't use NURBS for the sword. It should be do-able with just polygon modeling. You could go for subdivision-modeling, but for now I'd stick with polygon modeling. Just make the top-surface first and then start extruding it down- and outwards. A | | | | |
| | | | stick newbie - greenscreen & alpha problems
by Jason Brindley on May 8, 2011 at 5:12:39 pm
in the Forum
I'm a newbie to Nuke who needs to finish a class project. I realise these will be really basic questions & you may well be tempted to tell me to go and watch some basic tutorials; the fact of the matter is I've spent the last fortnight doing nothing | | | | |
| | | | Re: Rendering transparent objects with Alpha
by Tibor Bernscherer on Apr 24, 2011 at 9:46:33 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Hi,
Not really, but mit might be only me. I only use alpha channel for compositing in photoshop or after effects if I need to, then I render a colour and and alpha channel and mount the two layers together using overlay or multiply, digital tutors h | | | | |
| | | | Re: Maya
by Tibor Bernscherer on Apr 23, 2011 at 7:29:56 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Well, the better your computer, the fastest the result is, but it doesn't replace the quality or the process of modeling, lighting and so on. If this is your first project in Maya, I suggest you to watch a few tutorials before you jump in it, you see | | | | |
| | | | Yuval Hoshen
by yuval hoshen on Apr 14, 2011 at 6:18:08 am
in the Forum
1993-1998 Bachelor of Architecture- Technion, Israel Institute of Technology 2001-2008 Drawing, Mixed-Media & collage- Art Students League of New York 2003-2011 School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Dept.-Illustrating for Children, Graphic Desig | | | | |
| | | | Image plane problem
by Dave Ebouy on Jan 24, 2011 at 7:02:13 pm
in the MAYA Forum
I'm using Maya 2011 and am following a tutorial by Digital Tutors to create a car. Initially I set image planes for the Top, Front & Right Side views I later set an image plane for the Back view, this is where my problem started. Now If I set a view- | | | | |
| | | | Advanced Video Training Course?
by Lillian Young on Jan 22, 2011 at 10:57:14 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Does anyone know of an advanced video training course for After Effects CS5?
I have exhausted the following:
Lynda.com - Basics Only Video Copilot - Random Greyscale Gorilla - Random/C4D focussed Digital Tutors - Limited/Compositing focussed | | | | |
| | | | Re: Do you need body paint for this.
by Shawn Miller on Dec 28, 2010 at 6:53:11 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
Lynda.com has a decent 100 level C4D r12 course, which includes some basics of BodyPaint. For $25 a month US, Lynda is a pretty good resource. digital-tutors.com and CmiVFX.com also have some pretty good and fairly inexpensive tutorials.
http:// | | | | |
| | | | Re: Issues on Audio used as Sound effector
by Lillian Young on Sep 22, 2010 at 5:07:26 pm
in the Cinema 4D Forum
I am having this exact problem. I'm following a Digital Tutors tutorial on the Sound Effector, and their included wav audio file worked, but my own wav file did not. I have addressed this in their forum, but thought I'd seek help here, and it looks l | | | | |
| | | | Re: reflection problem!
by Lillian Young on Aug 24, 2010 at 5:10:35 pm
in the Forum
I'm tracking TVs with reflections right now. I'm not sure if you've tried to outline the iPad with the X-Spline layer tool (loosely), then use the X-Spline To Layer tool to draw a spline around the reflection, effectively telling Mocha to ignore the | | | | |
| | | | Digital Tutors – Rigging Cartoon Vehicles in Maya - Chapter 53
by Dario Cavallo on Apr 8, 2010 at 12:33:56 pm
in the MAYA Forum
I haven't understood what command use the author to convert the first position value numbers to the second position values.
He do this operation in a few seconds.
I am italian, thus I cannot understand what he says!
It seems that the author (in | | | | |
| | | | Question about the difference from Maya2008 and Maya2010.
by Dario Cavallo on Apr 7, 2010 at 4:41:08 pm
in the MAYA Forum
I have followed the entire tutorial about:
"Digital Tutors – Rigging Cartoon Vehicles in Maya"
In the chapter 52, at the end of the movie, the author digits the MEL script called:
"smooth_div_connect.mel"
OK!
After that, in Maya2008 it ent | | | | |
| | | | Maya Trax Question
by Mark Walczak on Oct 21, 2009 at 3:19:14 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Hey everyone,
I'm totally new to Maya Trax, and am following a Digital Tutors tutorial on how to create and blend simple clips. My problem is this: when I create clips, or try to drag them from the Visor into the Trax editor, the clip doesn't appe | | | | |
| | | | I Need Help Simulating Maya clothing.
by Randy Castle on Oct 16, 2009 at 10:14:28 pm
in the MAYA Forum
I'm using maya 8 unlimited and I have a Sub-D character who is completely rigged and ready to go. But I can't get any clothing to stick to him. I have spent many days experimenting with different settings and ran through just about every tutorial on | | | | |
| | | | Re: Looking to start 3D animating
by Seth Fair on Oct 15, 2009 at 8:07:00 pm
in the MAYA Forum
If your a serious animator, Animation Mentor (http://www.animationmentor.com) provides training specifically in character animation using Maya. But they use Maya as a tool and teach animation concepts. Its the animator who makes the animation and n | | | | |
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