
Digital-Tutors Fundamentals of Maya: Mastering Render Nodes
Author: webmaster | 5 December 2008 | Views: 561
Enhance the visual quality of your work with over 2 hours of project-driven training.
Ideal for beginner to intermediate users.

Digital-Tutors Fundamentals of Maya: Mastering Render Nodes
Author: webmaster | 5 December 2008 | Views: 561
Enhance the visual quality of your work with over 2 hours of project-driven training.
Ideal for beginner to intermediate users.

Simply Maya – Ball throw animation
Description:
The ball pick up and throw is intended to help break new Maya users into the world of keyframe animation.
You will learn how to set up your character in a starting pose then work your way through key framing individual
joints to start making the model move in the desired way.
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digital tutors – The Artist’s Guide to Mel (Full CD)
Discover creative alternative uses for MEL. Learn Maya Embedded Language
(MEL) with an artist-driven approach and add greater flexibility in your workflow.
Contains over 4 hours of intuitive project-based training. Ideal for artists new to MEL.

Digital Tutors – Render Passes in Maya 2009 | RS
Software: Maya 2009 and up
Run Time: 2 hrs. 3 min., 1 discs
Learn a production workflow to the completely updated Render Pass feature set in Maya 2009. Gain precise control over render outputs and learn time-saving techniques to optimizing the interoperability with Maya and compositing applications such as Toxik. Contains 2 hours of project-based training.

If you’re interested in animation then you’ll love the Robot Animation tutorial
It will take you though the steps used to get him moving around on screen.
We begin by importing a fully rigged character and will spend some time getting familiar with his controls,
like selecting control handles. Once we have a feel for moving him with his controls we will set him up for the animation.
Starting off with a basic walk pose we will learn how to key frame our robot so that he begins to move forward and eventually tries to open a door.
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Digital Tutors – Stereoscopic 3D In Maya (4 parts in full CD)
– Create audience excitement and interactive experiences.
– Learn practical workflows to making stereoscopic 3D imagery with Maya 2009.
– Gain total control over the camera, characters, and environments
to create one of the most powerful effects in cinema.
– Contains over 2 hours of project based training and step-by-step examples for any artist.
Turtle is the only product on the market that combines advanced rendering technology with sophisticated baking functionality in one integrated toolset.
By integrating the baking functions into the core of Turtle, standard rendering and baking can be handled in the same way. For you, this means a better workflow while baking and the ability to bake with all of Turtle?s render features. Continue Reading

From the award winning advanced geometry team that redefined CAD translation for Autodesk 3ds Max, comes the next generation of CAD data translation for Autodesk Maya, Maya Power Translators. Continue Reading
The article below was taken from: http://www.instantshift.com/2009/03/06/45-incredible-maya-tutorials-around/
All credits belong to instantshift.com. The article was repasted below as a mirror.

This artwork created for CGArena 3d challenge where the Artist (Christopher ADAJAR, Paris) won the second prize. This is the first contest where he joined and his first published artwork since he started working as a 3D & Visual Effects Artist.
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SOFTIMAGE Face Robot 1.9 introduces a new Autodesk? Maya? exporter that facilitates moving completed facial rigs and animation data from Face Robot into Maya. The interoperative workflow enhances pipeline export and custom data exchange, allowing artists to integrate facial rigs created in Face Robot into pipelines built on SOFTIMAGE|XSI? software, Autodesk Maya software, or between any other professional3D animation software packages.