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.
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.
This tutorial will show you how to create very realistic coin using only maya 3d.
This tutorial will teach you how to create flying arrows.
This tutorial covers how to create text in Maya.
This is a basic modelling tutorial that will teach you how to make a screw-driver and render it.
This tutorial will teach you the fundamentals of the way Maya animates.
This tutorial will teach you how to modeling 3d 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.
This tutorial covers 5 cool tricks you can do using cameras in Maya.
Learn how to create a heart from poly cube.
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.
This tutorial covers in depth, basic boolean operations, anatomy of a boolean, where to use booleans, and common boolean errors.
In this tutorial you’ll learn the very basic technique of creating an animation in Maya.
This tutorial will teach you how to create animated arrows.
This tutorial teaches you how materials work, and how to create materials in Maya.
In this tutorial I will explain how to grab and move an object.
This tutorial teaches you how to find distances in Maya.
Duplicate Special lets you duplicate objects, change the transformation attributes of the duplicated object(s), and duplicate mulitple objects at a time.
This tutorial will teach you how to make a light rig that will generate a nice, clean, soft overall light that’s tinted green.
This tutorial covers how to create lightning effects in Maya.
Create simple wave using Sine Deformer for flag wave if you not using soft body or for fish tail.
This tutorial will teach you how to rendering shadow only. This is simple and fast.
This tutorial covers how to import audio into Maya.
This is the first part of a multi-part tutorial on blend shapes.
In this tutorial we will be modeling a hammer with help of poly and subdiv.
In this tutorial you will go through the process of modeling and rendering a Photo-realistic USB cable in Autodesk Maya.
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.
n this Maya tutorial we will learn how to modeling saw.
Learn how parent and child function works in Maya.
This tutorial covers how to edit pivot points in Maya.
This tutorial will teach you how to create gears.
This tutorial was designed to teach anyone who is interested in rendering with Mental Ray’s Final Gather.
This covers some tool settings that I found useful to help the modeling process.
This tutorial will explore Maya’s default light options for every and each light in the list
This tutorial will teach you how to use revolve tool in Maya.
This tutorial will cover in depth the extrude tool and all of its functions.
This tutorial will use allot extrude, scale, move, and split polygon object to create a LCD Monitor.
This tutorial will show the method I used for making my arches in a building.
In this Maya tutorial we will learn how to create wire-frame rendering.
Create a wineglass using the curve tool.
For Intermediate Users
This tutorial is intended to show you how to make a Coca-Cola bottle using Maya.
This tutorial will teach you how to create a flash photography effect in Maya.
Modeling a head using Nurbs-Polygon technique by Sasan Rafiee.
In this Maya tutorial we will learn how to modeling Keroro Gunso.
This tutorial is mainly aimed at those users with experience in polygon modeling.
A tutorial on how to model and apply shaders to get realistic eyes, the “windows of your character’s soul”.
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup a basic lighting rig in Maya.
Tthis tutorial will teach you how to make a picture of a glass using caustics.
Learn how to create ceiling light in Maya.
In this tutorial you will learn how to model kempston pro joystick using polygons and NURBS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This tutorial will guide you on how to create a realistic looking chrome car rims.
This tutorial will teach you how to create a holiday ball from polygonal primitives.
This tutorial presents a step by step project for the modeling, shading, lighting and rendering of a realistic lava lamp.
This tutorial covers the basics of Maya’s 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.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a fire animation inside Maya, and adjust the settings for your own projects.
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.
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.
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.
This tutorial shows you how to model a spit fire war plane.
This tutorial covers how to model, texture, and render a toy dragonfly.
This tutorial covers how to model a human hand.
Learn how to model a human.
This Maya Tutorial will explain about modeling human especially in the form of anime.
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.
Learn how to add fog to a spotlight.
This Tutorial would teach you, how to turn a page in Maya, using Maya’s skeleton setup.
Learn how to model a ford focus WRX.
In this video tutorial show how to model an airline airpalne step by step as in Maya.
Video tutorial on how to create portal light in Maya.
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.
This tutorial will explain how to make ship in Maya using Nurbs curves, surfaces and poly geometry.
This tutorial will explain how to use Maya polygons to create dragon.
This tutorial is going to show you how to make terrain, trees and grass using Maya.
This tutorial will show you how to model a chain gun and control rig for firing and aiming using basic MEL scripts.
Learn how to build a candle flame in Maya.
In this exercise you are going to learn how to crack an egg and have light beams coming out of the cracks.
For Advanced Users
This tutorial describes how to achieve a Non photo realistic shading effect in Maya
This tutorial will briefly describe how Ryan Lim created his blind warrior from a painting
This tutorial will teach you how to model a realistic looking foot in Maya.
This tutorial will go with a more interesting hairstyle.
‘ZBrush , Blender & Maya Training: Sub Scattering of Particles – Video Tutorials’
by Jason Welsh
By Julian Jeremy Johnson-Mortimer.
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.
This tutorial is intended to present a method of creating a next gen vehicle asset.
By Farzad Dalvand, Iran.
This tutorial will explain the steps taken to create the standing beauty.
By Cousigne Adrien
By Zhang Yang, China.
Making an attractive woman is always a goal for most CG enthusiasts.
This tutorial will focus on creating a cool molecule type object with Maya and finish the project off in After Effects.
This tutorial will help you to make a 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.
By Daniel VIJOI.
Learn how to reproduce some of the logo effect of the film “Matrix” using maya particles and expressions.
This tutorial will discuss on several issues, how to setup the geometry and how to apply passive to active key switch among them.
By Warren Grubb.
This tutorial will summarize the workflow used for one of author’s characters with lots of images and some print-screens.
n this tutorial you will learn how to create a fantastic tunnel scene in Maya, and then add some final lighting touches in Photoshop.
By Christopher Adajar, France.
by Robert Vari, Hungary
By Mohammadtaghi Aibaghi Esfehani, Iran.
By Pascal Raimbault, New Zealand.
By Jonas Persson, Sweden.
By Rakesh Sandhu.
By Christopher Adajar, Paris.
This tutorial will explain how the author did this Cheese Platter the best that I can.
This tutorial is going to show you how to use particle instancer to create fleet of spaceships flying across the planes.
This tutorial is going to explain how author made this “Mafia wars” picture.
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.
By Mashru Mishu
By Massimo Right.
This tutorial will explain how to make a shader for lava effects using Maya’s material editor, called Hypershade.
This tutorial will explain how to use rigid bodies, forces and particles to create shatter effect in Maya.
This tutorial will show you how can you create 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.
This tutorial is designed to show most of the UV mapping techniques and tricks that I use day in and day out.
By Jelle Van de Weghe.
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