Maya Tutorials

Realistic Looking Onion
Illustrations on how to make a realistic onion in Maya are just a click away. Don`t waste the time. Enter here. Having the appropriate options and offering best working environment, making an onion in Maya makes it perfect for creating such objects. Use this tutorial as a guideline and see how simple it is.

Coffee Cup
This tutorial makes things easier and following step-by-step rules teaches you how to create a coffee cup in Maya. Shapes and bordures may vary, it`s all up to your creativity. The basics have tips on planning and designing illustrations for a simple coffee cup making the Maya program the most suitable for such attempt.

Chrome Car Rims
Click here and go through several best references on how to create car rims in Maya. You`re about to see a very popular online tutorial. After an exhaustive research, the final product is this two-part-guidebook containing best explanations of the theme, regarding cars. Powerful images bring the whole thing together and all created in Maya.

Seamless NURBS Human Character
This tutorial will show you how to model a Seamless NURBS Human Character.

Photorealistic model of a nut in Maya
This tutorial will go through the steps to create a photorealistic model of a nut. It requires that you have some basic modeling skills.

Tips for Managing 3D Animation Projects
When you are producing even the shortest of films, you'll end up with a lot of data, images, references, textures, scenes, etc. You can easily go crazy getting lost in your own project. If elements are scattered all over your computer, you will waste a lot of time and effort looking for them. It's much better to place each element correctly in a specific location along with its companion elements.

Poligonal Texturing
In this tutorial we will see how apply texture to an object, that is, like projecting an image so that our model assumes the aspect you want

Exploding Wall
This tutorial will explain how to use rigid bodies, forces and particles to create shatter effect.

The "particleDisplacement()"-Script
In this tutorial learn how how to make a particle displacement.

The "tornadoMaker()"-Script
To Setup a button for the script, type the following string "source tornadoMaker.mel; tornadoMaker;" in your Commandline and drag it on one of your shelves...

Creating Gears that actually work with maya and MEL
This tutorial will show you how to animate gear motion relative to motion of the other cog.

How to Model an Axe
In this tutorial I will show you how to use nurbs curves and surfaces to build simple axe.

Chain Gun in Maya Tutorial
In this tutorial I'll show you how to model a chain gun and control rig for firing and aiming using basic MEL scripts.

Box Modeling a Head with Maya
This tutorial will show you how to make low poly head in Maya.

Making a Battleship in Maya
In this tutorial I will explain how to make ship in Maya using Nurbs curves, surfaces and poly geometry.

Making of a Spaceship - Part 1
I'm going to show you some methods I'm using for building it.

Get Medieval - Creating a Polygon based Medieval Tower in Maya
In this tutorial I'm going to show how to create polygon tower in Maya.

Creating a Low Poly Dragon.
This tutorial will explain how to use Maya polygons to create dragon.

Slicing effect using ramps in Maya
In this tutorial I'm going to show how to make slicing effect using simple shading networks.

Lava shader effect
Here I will explain how to make shader for lava effects using Maya material editor, called hypershade. For this tutorial I recommend basic knowledge about connecting material nodes inside hypershade.