Today in Animation, I continued working on texturing and shading in Maya while following with video tutorials. I was able to make decent progress today, but was stopped completely by an issue that I had with the UV Editor. When I would open the editor and select a textured object, it would present a message …
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Maya Tutorials Daily Post
Today in Animation, I continued following along with tutorials to model a room. So far, I’ve made it past the third challenge and have started to add textures and shaders to objects. I have added a lambert to the floor object to make it brown, and a aiStandard Arnold shader to make the candlesticks look …
Maya Tutorials Daily Post
Today in Animation, I continued working on modeling alongside tutorial videos. So far, I made it to the third challenge, where we have to make an object to put on our table for decoration. I had some trouble deciding at first, but settled on doing an hourglass shortly before writing this. Other than that, I …
Maya Tutorials Daily Post
Today in Animation, I continued working on the tutorials that we have been following with. I finished making a candlestick by following along with the video.
Maya Mesh Light Daily Post
Today in Animation, I learned about using mesh lights in Maya. I watched two videos that explained how to apply a mesh light to an object. The image is of the final product of the second video, where we applied a texture to two spheres to make them glow. After that, we removed the textures, …
Arnold Lighting Daily Post
Today in Animation, I watched a video on lighting properties in Arnold. The video was 16 minutes long, and it demonstrated the different options and their properties. I took a screenshot from the video because I didn’t follow along in a Maya file, instead just watching the video so I didn’t miss anything. The video …
Maya Lighting Daily Post
Today in Animation, I finished following tutorials to learn about using the Arnold renderer to apply lighting to a scene. We were provided with a scene to begin with that needed lighting, and followed the tutorials to learn how to apply it. The tutorials were very confusing because the person recording the tutorials has an …
Maya Arnold Tutorial Daily Post
Today in Animation, we learned about lighting and using the Arnold renderer. We followed along with videos that taught us about lighting, but they were very difficult to understand. In the videos, the person making them uses an addon for Maya that manages lighting and shaders. The thing about this is that we don’t have …
Maya Fixing Problems with Edge Loops Daily Post
Today in Animation, we worked on fixing problems with edge loops. We were given a file to work from, and we just needed to fix some misaligned edges and stray vertices. It was pretty simple, except for the part where we had a file that was most likely accidentally saved over. This made it confusing …
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Maya Tutorials Daily Post
Today in Animation, we continued working on making models alongside tutorials. So far, I have started modeling a candle. I haven’t had any issues today, and was able to make it past the part where we make our own potion. I have had fun with this, and look forward to continuing.
Seth Moore 