CGTalk Lighting Challenge

CGTalk Lighting Challenge

This was a scene that was shaded and lit for the new CGTalk Lighting Challenge. The bedroom scene.

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V-Ray for Maya Icons

V-Ray for Maya Icons

So I made an attempt to "Mayafi" the standard V-Ray icons that are installed with V-Ray.  It's not that big a deal really, but the...

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Maya Shader Library

Maya Shader Library

Oliver Markowski has recently written a script called FBI_ShaderLibrary that makes it easy to build a comprehensive shader library within Maya. What's wrong with just...

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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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Alien Prison

Alien Prison

I made this scene based on a particular movie (take a wild guess....). All rendered with traditional spot lights and depth maps all with the Maya...

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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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Center To World

Center To World

This is a really neat script that will center an object to the world origin regardless of whether transforms are frozen or not. Very useful,...

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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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Mass Align Objects To Camera

Mass Align Objects To Camera

This is a script that I've had for a number of years now. I'm not sure of it's origin, but it is very useful for...

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King’s Chimney

King’s Chimney

I decided to brush up on some skills today and recreate a photo from scratch.

After a quick Google Image search I...

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