My Maya tutorials

[ficdogg]

Hi i have written several tutorials for Maya, and more are on their way ^ ^.
I hope you find them useful.

Name of tut(with link)
(Topics covered)

Maya Beginners tutorials
Maya's User Interface Elements
(Labeling UI Elements i.e. Menus,Shelf, Attribute Editor, Tool Settings, Channel Box / Layer Editor)

Navigating and interacting with Maya's UI part 01
(Menus and Menu sets, Toolbox, The shelf, )

Navigating and interacting with Maya's UI part 02
(Hotbox, Panel layouts, Coordinate system, Grid, Orthographic/Perspective, UI Display, Last Active Tool VS Last Action, RMB Menus/Marking Menus, Accessing Help)

Other tutorials
Create a Grand Piano in Maya lessons: 01-03 ; 04-06 ; 07-10; 11-14; 15-20; 21-26; 27-32; 33-39 NEW
(Learn how to model, texture and render a Grand Piano in Maya.)

Using Mental Ray's mib_cie_d node
(Achive realistic color temperature in Maya using the Mental Ray mib_cie_d node.)

The Mental Ray Round corners node
(Learn how to add bevel to edges at render time using Mental Ray's mia_roundcorners node.)

Setting Up Image Planes - Maya
(placing and sizing the image planes in Maya, creating some MEL buttons for switching between image planes)

Preparing image planes - Photoshop
(Cutting up and preparing image planes in Photoshop)

Rendering smooth wireframes in Maya
(Rendering smooth wireframes using the vector renderer, and compositing them in Photoshop)

Model, Texture, and Render a Katana in Maya
(Modeling, UV unwrapping with Headus UVlayout, texturing and rendering)

[ficdogg]

Lessons 07-10 are up
Create a Grand Piano in Maya lessons: 07-10 NEW
(Learn how to model, texture and render a Grand Piano in Maya.)

[ficdogg]

Lessons 11-14 are up
Create a Grand Piano in Maya lessons: 11-14 NEW
(Learn how to model, texture and render a Grand Piano in Maya.)

[ficdogg]

Lessons 15-20 are up
Create a Grand Piano in Maya lessons: 15-20
(Learn how to model, texture and render a Grand Piano in Maya.)

Lessons 21-26 are up
Create a Grand Piano in Maya lessons: 21-26 NEW
(Learn how to model, texture and render a Grand Piano in Maya.)

[unonymouz]

Thanks for sharing these! Never saw this post until now.

[corefirewire]

ya same here ...this is interesting. Thanks for sharing

[imagemagic]

ooohh.. i was unaware of the maya tutorials till yet..!

[ficdogg]

Thanks everyone. Here are the latest lessons for the piano tutorial. The modeling part is complete.

Lessons 27-32
Create a Grand Piano in Maya lessons: 27-32 NEW
(Learn how to model, texture and render a Grand Piano in Maya.)

[ficdogg]

And the last lessons are up. I also packaged all the lessons in a PDF together with all the project files.

Create a Grand Piano in Maya NEW

Lessons 33-39
Create a Grand Piano in Maya lessons: 33-39 NEW
(Learn how to model, texture and render a Grand Piano in Maya.)

[sunshine3ds]

nice link dear.

[karthikkumar]

Very nice and valuable tutorials... thanks for sharing

[DAssassin]

Thanks for the tuts. Very helpful. I have a question regarding your wireframe rendering tut. I am trying to make a wireframe render of a car using the technique you mentioned but as soon as I hit render, Maya crashes.! Does Maya have trouble rendering wireframes for meshes such as cars or any other dense objects? Tried the same render on a simple box and it worked out fine.! Any help would be appreciated.!