Saturday, 18 May 2013

100+ Maya 3D Tutorials For Beginners, Intermediate And Advanced Users

When it comes to high-end 3d computer graphics and 3d modeling software package, Autodesk Maya is always one of application to be considered. Maya plays an important role in the 3d visualization and animation industry and they are top choices for many designers on large or small-scale production.
maya tutorials
If you are looking to picking up Maya to design your 3d models, this article is for you. We’ve collected more than 100 useful Maya 3D tutorials, ranging from beginner level to intermediateand advanced users. Full list after jump.

For Beginners

This tutorial will teach you to make a simple butterfly and animate it.

flying_butterfly
In this tutorial Abed Ibrahim will walk you through the process of creating an animated logo using particles in Maya, and then reverse the rendered animation in any video editing software of your choice.

logo_forming_from_particles
This tutorial will show you how to create very realistic coin using only maya 3d.

3D_coin
This tutorial will teach you how to create flying arrows.

flying_arrows
This tutorial covers how to create text in Maya.

creating_text_in_maya
This is a basic modelling tutorial that will teach you how to make a screw-driver and render it.

screw-driver
This tutorial will teach you the fundamentals of the way Maya animates.

keyframe_animation
This tutorial will teach you how to modeling 3d street lamp.

street_lamp
This tutorial will teach you explore some of the tools and options of fluid to create melting text effect like smoke.

Learn how to model a spiral.

spiral_modeling
This tutorial covers 5 cool tricks you can do using cameras in Maya.

camera_tricks
Learn how to create a heart from poly cube.

model_3d_heart
In this tutorial you will learn how to use nDynamics’ passive colliders and ncloth objects, in conjunction with fields like air and gravity, to easily simulate realistic dynamic objects such as a windy flag or a water container.

Cloth_Simulations
This tutorial covers in depth, basic boolean operations, anatomy of a boolean, where to use booleans, and common boolean errors.

boolean
In this tutorial you’ll learn the very basic technique of creating an animation in Maya.

basic_animation
This tutorial will teach you how to create animated arrows.

animated_arrows
This tutorial teaches you how materials work, and how to create materials in Maya.

shaders
In this tutorial I will explain how to grab and move an object.

grab_move_object
This tutorial teaches you how to find distances in Maya.

distance_in_maya
Duplicate Special lets you duplicate objects, change the transformation attributes of the duplicated object(s), and duplicate mulitple objects at a time.

duplicate_special
This tutorial will teach you how to make a light rig that will generate a nice, clean, soft overall light that’s tinted green.

creating_natural_light
This tutorial covers how to create lightning effects in Maya.

creating_lighting
Create simple wave using Sine Deformer for flag wave if you not using soft body or for fish tail.

simple_wave
This tutorial will teach you how to rendering shadow only. This is simple and fast.

render_Shadow_only
This tutorial covers how to import audio into Maya.

import_audio
This is the first part of a multi-part tutorial on blend shapes.

blendshapes
In this tutorial we will be modeling a hammer with help of poly and subdiv.

modeling_hammer
In this tutorial you will go through the process of modeling and rendering a Photo-realistic USB cable in Autodesk Maya.

photorealistic_usb_cable
This tutorial will teach you how to model a basic face that can be used for cartoon or realistic.

This tutorial will teach you how to model a knife quickly, using Maya.

modelling_a_knife
n this Maya tutorial we will learn how to modeling saw.

modelling_saw
Learn how parent and child function works in Maya.

parent_Child
This tutorial covers how to edit pivot points in Maya.

pivot_point
This tutorial will teach you how to create gears.

creating_gears
This tutorial was designed to teach anyone who is interested in rendering with Mental Ray’s Final Gather.

metal_ray
This covers some tool settings that I found useful to help the modeling process.

tips_rotate_move
This tutorial will explore Maya’s default light options for every and each light in the list

understanding_lights
This tutorial will teach you how to use revolve tool in Maya.

using_revolve
This tutorial will cover in depth the extrude tool and all of its functions.

using_extrude
This tutorial will use allot extrude, scale, move, and split polygon object to create a LCD Monitor.

lcd_monitor
This tutorial will show the method I used for making my arches in a building.

polygon_arch
In this Maya tutorial we will learn how to create wire-frame rendering.

wireframe_rendering
Create a wineglass using the curve tool.

create_wine_glass

For Intermediate Users

This tutorial is intended to show you how to make a Coca-Cola bottle using Maya.

modeling_coke_bottle
This tutorial will teach you how to create a flash photography effect in Maya.

flash_photography_effect
Modeling a head using Nurbs-Polygon technique by Sasan Rafiee.

modeling_a_head_using_nurbs
In this Maya tutorial we will learn how to modeling Keroro Gunso.

modelling_keroro_gunso
This tutorial is mainly aimed at those users with experience in polygon modeling.

realistic_ear_modeling
A tutorial on how to model and apply shaders to get realistic eyes, the “windows of your character’s soul”.

realistic_eyes_modelling
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup a basic lighting rig in Maya.

lighting_rig
Tthis tutorial will teach you how to make a picture of a glass using caustics.

cautics
Learn how to create ceiling light in Maya.

ceiling_light
In this tutorial you will learn how to model kempston pro joystick using polygons and NURBS.

modelling_pro_joystick
In this 125 step monstrosity of a tutorial you will learn everything you need to know to make a dancing ice cream bar animation in Cinema 4D, and then composite it in After Effects.

dancing_ice_creme_bar
Table is a multiple functioned object, but without a nice flower vase looks incomplete. Follow the tutorial and see how it’s made in Maya.

vase_on_table
In this tutorial we will learn how to create fire effect from scratch using Maya particle system which will help you achieving your desired look.

create_fire
Learn how to model the low-poly mesh from reference, and then move on to creating the high-poly source for the purpose of baking normal maps.

new_york_subway_entrance
This tutorial will guide you on how to create a realistic looking chrome car rims.

make_a_car_rims
This tutorial will teach you how to create a holiday ball from polygonal primitives.

creating_holiday_ball
This tutorial presents a step by step project for the modeling, shading, lighting and rendering of a realistic lava lamp.

creating_lava_lamp
photorealistic_nut
This tutorial covers the basics of Maya’s Paint Geometry Tool.

maya_paint_geometry_tool
In this tutorial you will learn a simple technique of adding dust and dirt to your 3d objects, without overdoing it, to finally give them a more lifelike and realistic feel.

realistic_looking_dirt_layer
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a fire animation inside Maya, and adjust the settings for your own projects.

fire_effect

This video tutorial shows step by step various quick modeling techniques including curve extrude, surfaces, poly tube, Smooth, bevel, curve revolve, extrude, and more, to create a polygonal fan table.

poly_table_fan

This tutorial covers how to make effect that one dynamic sphere make trail on surface while moving over it’s surface, similar like some ball moving over mud.

dynamic_mud_effect

Goal for this tutorial is to make few blend shapes for 4 position of eye and drive that blend shapes automatically as eye ball rotating.

eyelid_rig
This tutorial shows you how to model a spit fire war plane.

model_a_spitfire_war_plane
This tutorial covers how to model, texture, and render a toy dragonfly.

toy_dragonfly
This tutorial covers how to model a human hand.

modelling_a_hand
Learn how to model a human.

modelling_a_human
This Maya Tutorial will explain about modeling human especially in the form of anime.

modelling_human_naruto
texturing_resolution
This tutorial shows you how to create this cool looking cartoon dog – Starting with the image planes and moving onto the modeling which covers nurbs, polygons and sub divs.

cool_looking_dog
Learn how to add fog to a spotlight.

spotlight_fog
This Tutorial would teach you, how to turn a page in Maya, using Maya’s skeleton setup.

page_turn_animation
gaseous_Effects
Learn how to model a ford focus WRX.

ford_focus

In this video tutorial show how to model an airline airpalne step by step as in Maya.

model_airplane
Video tutorial on how to create portal light in Maya.

portal_light
This tutorial explains how to use simple tri planar (box) projection and planar projection to shade two walls, one with decal, all done in only one material.

projection_mapping
This tutorial will explain how to make ship in Maya using Nurbs curves, surfaces and poly geometry.

battleship
This tutorial will explain how to use Maya polygons to create dragon.

low_poly_dragon
This tutorial is going to show you how to make terrain, trees and grass using Maya.

cg_nature
This tutorial will show you how to model a chain gun and control rig for firing and aiming using basic MEL scripts.

chain_gun
Learn how to build a candle flame in Maya.

candle_flame.
In this exercise you are going to learn how to crack an egg and have light beams coming out of the cracks.

egg_fog

For Advanced Users

This tutorial describes how to achieve a Non photo realistic shading effect in Maya

photorealistic_shading
This tutorial will briefly describe how Ryan Lim created his blind warrior from a painting    

blind_warrior
This tutorial will teach you how to model a realistic looking foot in Maya.

realistic_foot
This tutorial will go with a more interesting hairstyle.

game_character_hair
simple_crowd
skullhead_mobster
‘ZBrush , Blender & Maya Training: Sub Scattering of Particles – Video Tutorials’
by Jason Welsh

sub_scattering
By Julian Jeremy Johnson-Mortimer.

dr_julian_texturing
This tutorial will show you how to create growing flowers from surface; the flowers will gradually randomly grow up and will retain their original status when they reach to growing limit.

growing_flowers
This tutorial is intended to present a method of creating a next gen vehicle asset.

next-gen_game_car
By Farzad Dalvand, Iran.

making_of_sohrab
This tutorial will explain the steps taken to create the standing beauty.

standing_beauty
By Cousigne Adrien

modeling_morgane
By Zhang Yang, China.

revolution
Making an attractive woman is always a goal for most CG enthusiasts.

secrets_swimsuit_babe
This tutorial will focus on creating a cool molecule type object with Maya and finish the project off in After Effects.

molecule_effect
This tutorial will help you to make a realistic tree.

realistic_tree
In this tutorial we will learn how to use Maya’s powerful animation, dynamics, and camera tools to create an explosive crash effect between two vehicles.

spectacular_crash_animation
By Daniel VIJOI.

creating_old_farm
Learn how to reproduce some of the logo effect of the film “Matrix” using maya particles and expressions.

logo_effect_Matrix
This tutorial will discuss on several issues, how to setup the geometry and how to apply passive to active key switch among them.

domino_effect
By Warren Grubb.

facial_animation_rig
This tutorial will summarize the workflow used for one of author’s characters with lots of images and some print-screens.

making_of_varga
n this tutorial you will learn how to create a fantastic tunnel scene in Maya, and then add some final lighting touches in Photoshop.

making_of_the_tunnel
By Christopher Adajar, France.

making_of_rider
by Robert Vari, Hungary

making_of_the_prince
By Mohammadtaghi Aibaghi Esfehani, Iran.

making_of_the_joker
By Pascal Raimbault, New Zealand.

making_of_alien_nature
By Jonas Persson, Sweden.

making_of_potrait_of_a_troll
By Rakesh Sandhu.

making_of_a_kid
By Christopher Adajar, Paris.

making_of_gladiator
This tutorial will explain how the author did this Cheese Platter the best that I can.

making_of_cheese_platter
This tutorial is going to show you how to use particle instancer to create fleet of spaceships flying across the planes.

spaceship_fleet
This tutorial is going to explain how author made this “Mafia wars” picture.

making_of_mafia
fisheye_camera
The following concept tutorial will be covering Surface Emitted Particles on SoftBody tenticles to create a spiraling array particle system for futuristic gun blasts or whatever.

softbody_tenticles
By Mashru Mishu

street_cop_workflow
By Massimo Right.

making_of_tiger_zoo
This tutorial will explain how to make a shader for lava effects using Maya’s material editor, called Hypershade.

lava_shader_effects
This tutorial will explain how to use rigid bodies, forces and particles to create shatter effect in Maya.

destroying_a_wall
organic_modeling_animation
This tutorial will show you how can you create Flame Thrower

flame_thrower
This tutorial will concentrate on how to use smoothed polygonal geometry to create high res models.

This is a step-by-step tutorial that explain how to create 350Z’s body using polygonal modeling in Maya environment.

create_model_nissan_350-z
This tutorial is designed to show most of the UV mapping techniques and tricks that I use day in and day out.

uv_mapping
By Jelle Van de Weghe.

making_of_snapshot_zombie

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