Bottle in maya

This is a series of tutorial in which I try to explain very basic of modeling and texturing.

I take ketchup bottle create it in Maya with the help of EPcurve then revole the result to get final output in NURBS. Convert NURBS to poly for better textuing with the help of UVs. just solve the UVs and take it to photoshop where wuth the help of image I cut label and arrange it on UVs. save that final image and bring it back to Maya and it is done.......

Sterch your joints

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Command - : Animation menu – skeleton – joint tool

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Command - : Animation menu – skeleton – IK handle tool

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Command - : Create– Measure Tools – Distance tool

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Command - : Animation – Constrain - point

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Command - : Window - Animation Editor – Expression Editor

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I hope you understand how we can create stretchy joints in Maya if you any problem feel free to contact me

High res video is here

Ring in 3d

Just a sample of ring i create in a Maya using mental ray.

In this first u have to create good light effect for proper shading and then play with mental ray final gather and caustic . I also use HDR to create environment effect

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How to rotate cube another step after one step and so on….?

Here is the solution I rotate cube by moving pivot point.

In this tutorial pivot pt. move to one edge to another edge, so we don’t need any extra pivot to rotate cube second time.

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The Scorpio was a smaller weapon, more of a sniper weapon than a siege engine, being operated by only one person. The Scorpio was basically a primitive giant crossbow, a 'catapult with bolts', probably first invented by the Greeks, then later adopted and used on a larger scale by the Roman legions. This catapult used a system of springs with torsion, making it possible to obtain very great power and thus a high speed of ejection for the bolts.

This is another war machine; this machine can be a good example of Maya dynamics. In this tutorial I create ‘T” Shape object and put 3 cube on each end and make two of them passive body. Attach two springs to third cube and set the value of spring. This is very simple and fun to create this machine

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The onager was a post-classical Roman siege engine, which derived its name from the kicking action of the machine, similar to that of an onager (wild ass). It is a type of catapult that uses te nsional pressure, generally from twisted rope, to store energy for the shot (wikipedia.org).

I try to make that machine with the help of Maya dynamics, I hope you like it.
In this tutorial I first made arm with the help of cube and then arrange dynamic constrain to make it work. Spring played very important part in this simulation, you have to adjust it rest length to make it make properly.

and here is high res video (800X600)

I create waving flag in this tutorial with the help of ncloth (Maya).
Here I just convert poly plane to ncloth and tied (with the help of ncloth constrain) to pole, then just add wind in nucleus node. no need to add extra air or any other field.

Here is the high res video (800X600)

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Finally, after long time I make it today to upload my new tutorial.
I create Pumpkin in Maya with the help of NURBS, NURBS is useful way to model object, it is quicker and logical.
Here I use curve tool to model first shape of pumpkin and then revolve it around Y axis. Next step is to take out every alternative hull and give look of pumpkin. Now with the help of make LIVE tool create eyes and mouth, and use trim tool to take the extra pieces out.

High Res. video is here (800X600) 24 MB approx

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Nonmanifold geometry is some type of geometry, which cannot be unfold or in other word these object cannot be flattened properly. Hence it create problem in UV editor.
In Maya we have three type of nonmanifold geometry they are

1. More than two faces share an edge
2. Two faces share a single vertex without also sharing an edge
3. Two adjacent faces having opposite normals

These entire problems can be corrected by one command that is Cleanup in Mesh