Digital Tutors – Set Dressing and Design in Maya | 1.26 GB

Digital Tutors – Set Dressing and Design in Maya | 1.26 GB Learn a production workflow to layout, set dressing, and time-saving techniques for modeling, texturing, and scene development. Contains over 3 hours of project-based training and guides artists step-by-step through a proven approach to story-telling with set dressing, designing with art direction, and processes of building natural sets and environments as seen in animated feature films. Popular highlights include: Using References in Set Design Creating a Natural Layout Story-telling Through Layout Working with Art Direction Creating Foliage with Paint Effects Placing Models with geometryPaint Displacing Geometry with Height Maps Working with Issues of Scale; Rigging Props Animating Props Modeling Natural Objects and Props Adding Procedural Texture Adding mental ray Shaders Painting Placement/Texture Guides Importing Artwork Scene Management Lesson Outline (27 lessons) 01. Introduction and project overview; importing artwork of the island 02. Blocking in the island and coastline 03. Adding an ocean plane 04. Adding mid ground and back ground hills 05. Sculpting the beach with Artisan 06. Painting a layout guide onto the island 07. Building a palm tree 08. Working on the palm leaves 09. Finishing the palm tree model 10. Rigging the tree for interactive deformation 11. Arranging the trees on the beach 12. Building rocks 13. Adding texture procedurally 14. Placing rocks using geometryPaint 15. Building a vine with a bend deformer 16. Placing vines 17. Creating a natural layout with plants and bushes 18. Adding grass to transition areas; breaking up lines 19. Placing the hut and modifying terrain 20. Creating a sense of scale 21. Adding props to create a story 22. Painting the beach texture 23. Finishing the beach texture 24. Adding foliage to the mid ground hill with Paint Effects 25. Displacing the background hill with a height map 26. Adding a sky 27. Adding the ocean shader and environment fog; conclusion Screenshot Download Links http://hotfile.com/dl/37596321/63f9e8a/Set.Dress.Des.part1.rar.html http://hotfile.com/dl/37596407/9728839/Set.Dress.Des.part2.rar.html http://hotfile.com/dl/37596468/e06a1cc/Set.Dress.Des.part3.rar.html http://hotfile.com/dl/37596534/bf987b3/Set.Dress.Des.part4.rar.html http://hotfile.com/dl/37596591/473734d/Set.Dress.Des.part5.rar.html http://hotfile.com/dl/37596669/7fa117c/Set.Dress.Des.part6.rar.html http://hotfile.com/dl/37596713/98eddd0/Set.Dress.Des.part7.rar.html

Digital-tutors : Flash and Maya Integration

Digital-tutors : Flash and Maya Integration

Size | 327Mb

Learn the fundamental workflow for next-gen game development and innovative techniques for seamlessly integrating Maya and XNA for game creation. Contains nearly 5 hours of project-based training for technical artists learning the methods of creating game content using XNA and Maya.

Popular highlights include:

* Review of Flash Application
* Review of Maya Application
* Creating 3D Turntables
* ActionScript 1.0 & 3.0
* Using Maya Vector Renderer
* Working with Fills and Edges
* Rendering Wireframes
* Shadows, Reflections and Highlights
* Alternate Edge Workflow
* Working with Multiple Frames
* Repeated Tracing with Flash javascript
* Using Papervision 3D
* Export Collada Files for Papervision 3D
* Updating Builds with SVN
* Coding 3D Actions
* Various Tips and Tricks

Lesson Outline:

1. Navigating and drawing in Flash 8:05
2. Flash movie clips and animation 6:36
3. Layers, publishing and ActionScript in Flash 11:43
4. Navigating and modeling in Maya 8:15
5. Shading objects and components in Maya 7:11
6. Animation and rendering in Maya 9:47
7. Rendering a turntable for Flash 9:33
8. Dragging the turntable in Flash 8:23
9. Reducing sequence sizes 5:33
10. Introduction to Maya Vector renderer 9:39
11. Alternate to edge rendering 5:20
12. Lights and shading in Maya Vector renders 6:15
13. Layered SWF rendering 8:02
14. Alternate vector rendering with bitmaps 8:17
15. Rendering vector shadows 6:22
16. Rendering and modifying reflections 7:42
17. Flash components and Maya plugins 5:21
18. Maya to Flash pipeline process 11:50
19. Using newer builds to fix issues 6:30
20. Rotating the character every frame using ActionScript 3.0 5:08
21. Spin the Collada file around using a simple line of code 8:38
Total Run Time: 2:45:52

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