Skydome Rig

Skydome Rig

I’m a really big fan of using HDR images for lighting outdoor scenes.  (Check out this tutorial from Peter Guthrie if you...

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Enable History in V-Ray for Maya

Enable History in V-Ray for Maya

The V-Ray frame-buffer comes with a really nice feature that enables you to save previous renders, however by default this option is disabled. Obviously there are...

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Maya 2011 Classic UI

Maya 2011 Classic UI

Since Maya now uses the very flexible Qt framework, it means that certain "themes" are now available to Maya simply by adding in a little...

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Custom Maya Projects

Custom Maya Projects

You don't always have to use the default project set-up that ships with Maya! If you've ever found yourself deleting folders or repeatedly adding in folders...

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Lens Correction In Maya

Lens Correction In Maya

In real life, some photographic lenses on certain cameras can move horizontally and vertically in order to control what's known as the Key-Stoning Effect....

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Leaf Tests With mental ray

Leaf Tests With mental ray

Trees. ugh. Anyway, I'm trying to find a nice setting for the mia_material_x mats for foliage/leaves in mental ray. It's quite difficult to find settings that...

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BasePivot

BasePivot

I find this one of the most useful scripts for Maya and use it most in the HotBox. Even though it's ancient, I thought it...

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Adding MEL Scripts

Adding MEL Scripts

Just a quick tip.

When you have Maya open and are adding or deleting MEL scripts to the scripts directory, you don't...

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