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Creating a Crumbling Effect on a Character in Maya

Create a crumbling effect in Maya that is inspired from the film Rango using Maya's native toolset

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Building Effects for Tower Destruction in Maya and 3ds Max

a break down recreating a scene from transformers showing a Tower Destruction in Maya and 3D max using maya fluids and particles and Rayfire

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Maya’s Seed Command Creates Repeatable Simulations

The Seed command in Maya allows you to keep a random simulation the same, using the same sets of random numbers

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Create a Dynamic Peeling Effect Using SOuP Nodes in Maya

create a dynamic skin destruction set up in Maya using SOuP nodes to combine skinning with rigid body dynamics and destruction effects

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Generating a Wet Beach Sand Effect With Maya Bifrost

You can easily create a wet sand beach effect using an animated matte created by Maya Bifrost and camera projections

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Create a Back to the Future Style Fire Trail With Maya Particles

create the effect similar to the film back to the future, a fire trail behind a moving vehicle using Maya Particles, expressions and render layers

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Breaking Geometry With an Animated Object in Maya Using PullDownIt 3

Esteban Cuesta shows how to use PullDownIt 3 to create destruction by way of an animated object in Autodesk Maya.

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Working with Maya nHair, Considering Scale, xGen and Performance

Daryl Obert has a look at some Maya nHair workflows that consider scale, working with xGen and some performance tips.

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Create Tire Tracks in Snow Using Maya Soft Body Dynamics

Mike Hermes shows how to use Maya Soft Body Dynamics to create tire tracks in a material like snow or mud.

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Make nParticles Change Color Based on the Collision Object

learn how you can have Maya nParticles change color based on the color of the collision object they collide with

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Simple Maya nCloth Setups for Cloth Modeling Tasks

Use Maya nCloth for modeling tasks such simple clothes, & tablecloths.

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Hang Objects on a String Using Maya’s nHair and nCloth

How to use Maya's nHair and nCloth to create wire hanging clothespins clasping photos in them

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Creating Guided Simulations With Maya Bifrost

You can easily art direct liquid simulations in Maya Bifrost using a cached simulation or a low resolution animated mesh...

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Dissolve Maya Fluids Using Particles

Create effects where particles can eat away or dissolve Maya Fluids.

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Creating a Meteor Impact and Road Destruction With Maya Fracture FX

Use Fracture FX's event driven destruction system to create a meteor impact and road destruction in Maya

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Create an Explosion Using The Aero Solver in Maya Bifrost

Create explosions using the new Adaptive Aero Solver available in Bifrost in Maya 2016.

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Meshing Bifrost Simulations From the Command Line

How to use the command line to efficiently mesh Bifrost simulations to an Alembic cache in 10 frame chunks

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Getting Started With Golaem Crowd in Maya

A quick start guide to getting started simulating and animating crowd scenes with Golaem Crowd for Maya, the artist friendly set of tools to populate scenes

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Art Direct Fracture FX Simulations With Maya Fields

use Maya Fields to manipulate fracture FX dynamics and destruction effects, letting you art direct destruction shots easily.

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ColorSets Can Drive Emission Velocity in Maya Bifrost

how you can simulate velocity fields by to leveraging painted colorsets to drive the initial velocity of a Bifrost liquid on emission.

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