Dynamics and Importing Objects

A quick post today to share a helpful hint. I planned to texture my Waterfall in Bodypaint but I did not want to texture  before setting up the Dynamics so when I imported the object back int Maya all my passive collision/null was attached to the original and for some reason did not work with […]

Visual Effects

Now that my character is up and walking he is going to get into a lot of trouble.  I’m not sure who is going to make a bigger mess me or him.  Time to dive into Dynamics in Maya because there is going to be an explosion. My new book Creating Visual Effects in Maya […]

Character Rigging

Ok, my new book is read…. Deep Breath Step 1 – Center Character – so far so good Step 2 – make sure you did not apply smoothing.. oh that would have been helpful to know before I smoothed everything Step2a un-smooth everything which is easy enough as long as you did not delete history […]