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Different Object modelling Tutorials in Maya

geeta rauthan — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:26:11 +0000

Hii!! In this post i have given the Tutorial links for Modeling Different things easily. I find these very interesting and want to share with you all.Hope you will enjoy learning these articles.

1. Modeling a coca-cola Bottle

2. Creating an LCD Monitor

3. Creating a 3D Coin

4. Create Car Rim

5. Create a Beach Chair

Dome lighting in Maya

geeta rauthan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:55:48 +0000

Hi!!!! In this tutorial i have created Dome Lighting in Maya. Dome is basically created to give the effect of skylight to our objects or exterior models which gives very soft shadows.

Here is the render of the dome lighting or you can say the skylight.

Step-1 First create some objects like i have used the basic polygon primitives or you can have your own exterior models.Create a spotlight as you can see in the image below and set its pivot below at the center by pressing “d”.

Step-2 Select the Spotlight.Go to Window- Outliner on shape node under display,Select the Shape node as shown in the figure below.
Step-3 Go to Window-Rendering editor-Channel control and select Dmap filter size,Dmap resolution and Emit specular from non-keyable hidden and move it to Non-keyable displayed.

Step-4 Now we have the selected items in our Channel Control and do the following settings- Intensity: 0.08, Emit Specular : 0 or off, Use Depth Map shadows : on or 1 , Dmap filter size : 4 , Penumbra angle : 20 and Dropoff : 0.01

Step-5 Select the spot light and go to the rotate settings by double clicking on rotate tool. Make the discrete rotate on and give the Step Size to 22.5. Select the spotlight ctrl+d and rotate it as you can see in the image. Again, shift+d three times.

Step-6 Now, Again go to rotate tool setting and make the Step Size to 60. Select the four lights and group them by ctrl+g . Now ctrl+d the lights and shift+d 5 times

Step-7 Select lights and change the cone angle to 150 till the spot is big enough so that there is no gap in between. Select all the lights and go to ctrl+a and change the light color to light sky blue.

Step-8 Now Render your scene and create one directional light for sunlight if needed.I hope you enjoyed this post!!!!!!

Ghost Shader in Maya

geeta rauthan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:11:15 +0000

I’m gonna discuss about the Ghost Shader here in this tutorial.

STEP 1 -- First take a face model or any model where u wanna apply the ghost shading. Like i’ve chosen this face as u can see in the image below

STEP-2 – Go to rendering Editor – Hypershade
and take two Ramps , one Sampler info and one Lambert

STEP 3-- Select the first Ramp and adjust the colors like i have done in the image below (Black above and Blue Below) similarly select the second Ramp and choose colors white and Black (White above and black below) and choose the interpolation to Smooth

STEP 4 – Select ramp 1 and drag it to the color of lambert and now select second ramp and drag it to the transparency of Lambert. Assign it to the model and apply one directional light in the scene.

now here’s the final render

Glass Shading in Maya

geeta rauthan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:19:32 +0000

Here is the final render of glass shaded in maya

step-1- Take a glass model, create a plane and a sphere for applying HDRI image as u can see the image below.

step2- GO to window- rendering editor – Hypershade and take a Sampler info ,Ramp and a Phong.

Step3- Now select Ramp and assign two colors to it . white above and grey down .

Step4- Drag the ramp to reflectivity of the Phong. Make the transparency color white and color to light grey.

Step5- drag the Sampler info to ramp( by middle mouse button) click on other, connection editor will open then choose Facing ratio(output) and go inside uv coordinate- select v coordinate(inputs)
u can see the image below

Step6- Take a new file and apply an HDRI image to it and assign this image to the sphere we made( for the environment).

Step7- Go to render settings- Render using – Mental ray
choose Sampler mode to Adaptive Sampling
On Raytracing – reflections-10, refractions – 20 , max trace depth – 20

step8- create a directional light if needed. Now hit the Render and enjoy!!!

Introduction to Maya and Basic Modeling with Primitives

Ram — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:15:09 +0000

In our first class of the year, we introduce the basic layout of maya and demonstrate simple polygon modeling with primitives. A video tutorial from UCBUGG.

Click on full screen toggle to view the video in full screen