| | | | Autodesk Maya 2008 UI Colors
by Jim Jones on Jul 22, 2008 at 9:50:23 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Thanks Alvaro, I'm now using a uxtheme dll patcher for XP SP3, and some msstyles (Visual Styles) from deviantART this way there is no extra load on memory or CPU, Seems to work great, I now have a great looking ... | | | | |
| | | | Nucleo Pro 2 and Mental Ray
by Benji McDonald on Oct 8, 2008 at 7:09:46 pm
in the MAYA Forum
Hi everyone, A quick question for Nucleo Pro 2 users: Is it possible to render a Maya scene through Nucleo 2 using Mental Ray? When adding the job to the render queue it doesn't seem to work unless it is ... | | | | |
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Cinema 4D
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Xfrog 4 for Maya 6
Kino Gil, noted film effects artist and host team leader of Creative Cow's Maya forum, gives his impressions of one "the best kept secrets" in Computer Graphics Imagery. He gives an honest view of some of the strengths and weaknesses of the system and concludes that Xfrog 4 for Maya 6 ''..one of the best and most powerful 'plugins' for Maya I have found yet.''
Review
Author: Joaquin Gil |
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| | | | Creating Crystal Text In Maya
by quangthai nguyen on Sep 30, 2008 at 7:02:33 am
in the MAYA Forum
Can Maya creating a shading like crystal ? I want to make some Text look like crystal thank so much for any advices | | | | |
| | | | how to smooth a polygon
by Matt Nielsen on Oct 7, 2008 at 3:09:39 am
in the MAYA Forum
your right mouse button on the object so it brings up the context menu. From this menu select edges. Now select the edges you want to "smooth" then depending what version of Maya you are working with you will want ... | | | | |
| | | | How to track wings in Maya
by Laura Jones on Sep 21, 2008 at 2:06:08 am
in the MAYA Forum
Hi everyone, I am a student working on a short fantasy film shot entirely on bluescreen about fairies. We built their wings in Maya and now are running into difficulties finding the right tracking information. We tried projecting the image ... | | | | |
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MAYA
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Maya Logo part 2
In this Maya video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader Alvaro Castaneda, we add shaders to our geometry to later light and render our final logo. This is part 2 of a 2 part series Creating a Logo in Maya.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Alvaro Castaneda |
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| | | | bevel plus and different fonts
by mike throck on Sep 28, 2008 at 12:47:55 am
in the MAYA Forum
I often try to create 3d text in maya and get the "error curve a isn't inside curve b" or somehinge to that effect. This happens with about half the fonts in my library and seems to be caused be ... | | | | |
| | | | Maya to Jogl
by Marcus Vasques Osorio on Sep 12, 2008 at 4:21:44 pm
in the MAYA Forum
I am trying to get a maya rtg file into jogl... anyone got any ideas, I am new to all just experimeting with both? marcus | | | | |
| | | | maya 2009
by jason leue on Sep 18, 2008 at 3:28:49 am
in the MAYA Forum
is maya 2009 out yet? if not when? thanks | | | | |
| | | | ookie Question of the Day.
by Salima Nesbitt on Sep 18, 2008 at 10:50:59 pm
in the MAYA Forum
close together. This takes up to much time, so I import them from AI, but then I have to extrude each letter again individually. Is there a better way to deal with text in MAYA? Also is there a way ... | | | | |
| | | | [Noob] Annoying bar, every time I start Maya.
by Wes Kraaij on Sep 1, 2008 at 8:51:06 am
in the MAYA Forum
First, my english is poor, 'cause I'm dutch.. My Problem: Everytime when I start Maya, this grey annoying bar appears. I'ts the same grey as the background, so it look likes a bar.. I already have installed Maya on many ... | | | | |
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MAYA
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Learning Maya 6: Book Suite
Joaquin Kino Gil, noted film effects artist and host team leader of Creative Cow's Maya forum, reviews Learning Maya 6: Book Suite, by Alias Inc. [formerly Alias|Wavefront].
Review
Author: Joaquin Gil |
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| | | | scrubbing not activated
by Dan Stiglmayer on Sep 23, 2008 at 8:18:30 am
in the MAYA Forum
settings and preferences window but found no such thing. FYI, i am using the MMB and either the Ctrl. or alt button which i believed to be the way to do this. Im also using Maya 6 just in case ... | | | | |
| | | | Duplicating Geometry Cached Objects with Trax Editing
by George Webster on Sep 15, 2008 at 1:43:43 am
in the MAYA Forum
has no animation at all, no nodes in the HGraph or cache ref. I tried duplicating the original's nodes in the Hgraph but it plays back a warped mesh. I'm reletively new to maya (max convert) and these obscure nuances ... | | | | |
| | | | News: Escape Studios Launches New Online Learning Tool
by Cow News Droid on Oct 3, 2008 at 4:32:08 pm
in the News & Press Releases Forum
Maya Training with World-class Staff and Customizable Coursework (New York--October 3, 2008) Students now have access to world-class training in Autodesk Maya at the click of a mouse, with the launch of Escape Studios' revolutionary computer graphics (CG) online learning ... | | | | |
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Adobe After Effects basics
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Pullback from Earth to Outer Space
Professional motion graphics artist, Greg Neumayer, shares his experience creating the zoom out from earth to outer space effect using Maya and After Effects. Greg walks you through how he solved the transition problems associated with this large scale effect where realism can be very difficult to achieve.
Tutorial
Author: Greg Neumayer |
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MAYA
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Maya Logo part 1
In this video tutorial from CreativeCOW contributor Alvaro Castaneda, we begin by tracing the logo in a vector app, then use that to start building the logo, using Maya to bring it to life. This is part 1 of a 2 part series Creating a Logo in Maya.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Alvaro Castaneda |
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MAYA
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Maya 4.5 Fundamentals
Always looking for good reference materials, Creativecow leader, Chad Briggs takes a look at Maya 4.5 Fundamentals by Jim Lammers with Lee Gooding published by New Riders Publishers. Read why Chad gives this book 4 1/2 COWs.
Review
Author: Chad Briggs |
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MAYA
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Sean Fennell examines Maya 4.5 Savvy
Maya COW leader, Sean Fennell examines Maya 4.5 Savvy by John Kundert-Gibbs, Peter Lee, John L. Kundert-Gibbs and published by Sybex Books. Sean concludes with, '' Maya 4.5 Savvy will aid beginner through intermediate artist work more comfortably in Maya 4.5.''
Review
Author: Sean Fennell |
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MAYA
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Learning Maya 5: MEL Fundamentals
Joaquin Kino Gil, noted film effects artist and host team leader of Creative Cow's Maya and Film FX forums, reviews Learning Maya 5: MEL Fundamentals, by Alias [formerly Alias|Wavefront].
Review
Author: Joaquin Gil |
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MAYA
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Learning Maya 7 Book Bundle
CreativeCOW leader John David Hutton takes a thorough look at the Learning Maya 7 Book Bundle and concludes with ''...I give this 3 book bundle a solid 5 cows for a clean, organized, thoughtful layout and instruction set. They contain an awe-inspiring bundle of textures and materials, programs, videos and tutorials. You won't want to miss them.''
Review
Author: John David Hutton |
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Podcasts | | | | creative cow podcast
Episode #003 - October 07, 2005
Episode 003 - Flash Professional 8 with Lee Brimelow, Boris FX buys Media 100 and Autodesk buys Alias/Maya with Ron Lindeboom, creating enhanced podcasts, Podcast AV for Apple reviewed, Yahoo mail beta, Microsoft Max, Paint.NET and much more - www.creativecow.net | | | | |
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