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
View ArticleBuilding 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
View ArticleMaya’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
View ArticleCreate 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
View ArticleGenerating 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
View ArticleCreate 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
View ArticleBreaking 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.
View ArticleWorking 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.
View ArticleCreate 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.
View ArticleMake 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
View ArticleSimple Maya nCloth Setups for Cloth Modeling Tasks
Use Maya nCloth for modeling tasks such simple clothes, & tablecloths.
View ArticleHang 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
View ArticleCreating 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...
View ArticleDissolve Maya Fluids Using Particles
Create effects where particles can eat away or dissolve Maya Fluids.
View ArticleCreating 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
View ArticleCreate an Explosion Using The Aero Solver in Maya Bifrost
Create explosions using the new Adaptive Aero Solver available in Bifrost in Maya 2016.
View ArticleMeshing 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
View ArticleGetting 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
View ArticleArt 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.
View ArticleColorSets 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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