+++++++++++++++++GENERAL++++++++++++++++++++++++++
http://www.animationartist.com/2002/10_ ... tation.htm <--How to build a workstation
http://www.newriders.com/content/images ... 12581C.pdf <--Using a digital Camera
-----------------FINE ARTS-------------------------
http://www.anticz.com/heads.htm <--Head Proportions
http://www.bakaneko.com/howto/main.htm <--Drawing Anime Style *10/24
http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=pag ... 549&page=1 <--How To Draw Animation: Shoulder Motion
http://www.anticz.com/heads.htm <--Understanding the Form of the Human Head
http://www.anticz.com/handtut.htm <--Drawing the human hand
*****************Reference materials***************
http://www.onnovanbraam.com/ <--Wide range of reference materials from cars to guns
http://www.bartelby.com/107/279.html <--Human Surface Anatomy
http://www.bartelby.com/107/ <--Gray‘s anatomy
http://www.fineart.sk <-- A great resource for human anatomy reference
http://www.suurland.com/ <-- A great resource for vehicle reference & blueprints
http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/9275/ <--SMALL Vintage Car Blueprints
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Texture Maps~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.noirextreme.com/digital/digital001122.htm <--Earth
Texture Maps
http://oera.net/How2/Earth1.htm <--Earth Texture Maps
http://www.3dmax.com/textures/index.cfm <--Texture maps
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MAYA NEWBIES %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
http://www.newriders.com/articles/artic ... roduct_id={61B5439B-86B6-45E8-B907-59911F79B3BE} <--A Tour of Maya
=================MAYA TUTORIALS======================
Modeling:
http://avl.etsu.edu/intranet/resources/ ... efault.htm <--The Art of Poly Modelling
http://www.thehobbitguy.com/tutorials/p ... index.html <--Poly Modelling a Head by the Hobbit Guy
http://www.gmask.com/tutorials/wrx_tuto ... orial.html <--Modelling a Suburu
http://www.gmask.com/tutorials/corners/corners.html <-- The art of rounding corners on nurbs models
http://www.gmask.com/tutorials/fillets/fillets.htm <-- Creating fillets without using a fillet tool
http://www.worldofmaya.com/t_poly.html <--Poly Head Tutorial
http://plissken.fatalunity.com/ <-- SubD‘s
http://www.swanimator.com/tipstutorials ... orials.htm <--Nurbs Modelling
http://www.blackorb.com/mayagiraffe3d.html <--Modeling a giraffe with Polygons
http://www.geocities.com/susantio/head01.htm <-- Sub-D Head Modelling
http://members.lycos.co.uk/peoplesfacto ... deling.htm <-- Quake Models in Maya
http://www.okita.com/tutorials/maya02.html <--Modelling a person from a cylinder
http://users.pandora.be/gds/maya/indian_2.htm <--Human Head Shading
http://www.maya3d.dk/Tutorials/HeadMode ... deling.htm <--Modelling a head from a cube
http://www.swanimator.com/tipstutorials ... elling.htm <--Patch Modelling a head
http://coldfusion.art.msstate.edu/camen ... humanhead/ <--Modelling the human head
http://www.kcc.zaq.ne.jp/nkj/sculpland/ ... TMC00.html <-- Modeling a human body
http://www.3dchopshop.com/tutorials/frankenstein.htm <--Modelling Frankenstein
http://www.yiqunchen.com/publications/i ... ticle1.jpg <--Modelling a Human Head with Maya Subdivisions
http://www.newriders.com/articles/artic ... roduct_id={0BFF74D1-DE92-4405-9C33-3E985FF68368} <--Hair for 3D Characters
-----------------NON MAYA SPECIFIC MODELLING TUTORIALS-----------------
http://devworld.apple.com/dev/techsuppo ... eider.html <-- Nurbs Info
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/street/gfz58/ <--Modelling Characters with Nurbs. This was written for Power Animator but most of the information here is valid and applies to the general subject of character development.
http://tomcapizzi.com/imagesHi/headWebPage/index.html <--Modelling a head with Nurbs in PA
http://tomcapizzi.com/imagesHi/bugWebPage/index.html <--Modelling a Bug Head with Nurbs in PA
http://www.secondreality.ch/tutorials/m ... /head.html <--Sub-D Head modelling in Max universal technique
http://www.secondreality.ch/tutorials/m ... g/ear.html <--Sub-D Ear modelling in Max universal technique
http://www.newriders.com/articles/artic ... roduct_id={1E9E1524-3582-4CFA-9830-5E2AA86DE278} <--Modelling basics non maya specifc
http://www.animationartist.com/2001/02_ ... part1.html <--Sub-D modelling a foot not Maya specific
http://earth.vol.com/~natzke/ear.htm <--Modelling an Ear with metaNurbs in LW
http://www.okino.com/conv/iges_opt.htm <--Polytrans IGES optimization
http://www.joelertola.com/tutorials/brain/index.html <--Modelling a brain in Lightwave
http://www.figure2productions.com/EI_He ... Intro.html <-- UberNurbs Modeling in Electric Image
http://mr2k.3dvf.com/tutorials/max/tutorials_joan.htm <--Modelling Characters with Nurbs with MAX
http://maxrovat.sns.hu/subdiv/subdivmodeling.htm <--Sub-D Modelling
http://www.suurland.com/tut_ball/tutorial_football.htm <--Modelling a soccer/football in Max
http://maxrovat.sns.hu/subdiv/ <--SubDivisions with Mirai
http://www.lightwaveworld.com/Tutorials/Chris/intro.htm <--Modelling from Cross Sections in Lightwave
http://www.anticz.com/3dheadpa.htm <--Constructing the Human Head In 3D non maya specific
http://www.anticz.com/images/Animation/TimeLapse.mpg <--Modelling Process
Rigging:
http://www.victoriapictures.com/dragon/pindex.html <--general character setup
http://www.gignews.com/kappblackcock.htm <--covers modeling, rigging and
texturing in maya
http://www.characteranimation.com/ <--Awesome Tutorial on Wrap Deformers!!!
http://www.gmask.com/tutorials/Hydraulic.pdf <--contraints
http://www.animagicnet.no/maya/bodyShape/ <--Rigging with Blendshapes
http://www.gignews.com/kappmarch02.htm <--Rigging A Vehicle
http://www.mindseyemedia.com/maya2.htm <-- Articulated Characters
http://www.mikefortner.com/pages/head.html <--Joints for Facial Deformations
http://fraghq.com/brainswell/tutorial1.htm <--Reverse foot
-----------------NON MAYA SPECIFIC RIGGING TUTORIALS-----------------
http://www.anticz.com/eularqua.htm <--What is Gimbal Lock and why does it occur?
http://www.anticz.com/puppets.htm <--Puppets
http://www.3dluvr.com/content/article/11 <--covers modeling, rigging and texturing
Animation:
http://www.cmistudios.com/lessons/tireTut/index.htm <--Animating a tire
http://www.medialab.chalmers.se/tutoria ... evel1.html <-- Basic Animation
http://www.splotsh.com/tutorial.htm <-- animating polygonal tree
http://www.keithlango.com/ <--Pose to Pose tutorial in several languages
-----------------NON MAYA SPECIFIC ANIMATION TUTORIALS-----------------
http://www.anticz.com/Walks.htm <--A Simple Method for creating Walk Cycles
http://www.anticz.com/animatio.htm <--Character Animation Theories And Principles
http://www.animation-collaboration.com/ ... ls/cat.htm <--Tank Treads in XSI
http://avl.etsu.edu/intranet/resources/ ... tpage.html <--Animating for Speech and Expressions
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/cs5 ... ekman.html <--Facial Action Coding System
http://crl.research.compaq.com/projects ... acial.html <--Facial Expression Research
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/nsf.txt <--Understanding Facial Expression Paper
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/humanface/ <--The Human Face Reference
Fluids:
http://www.cmistudios.com/lessons/oceanTut/index.htm <--Animated wake
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/ ... m/gas.html <--Interesting but not for Maya
PaintFX:
http://www.gmask.com/tutorials/hairtut/hairtut.html <--PaintFX hair
htp://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rdknowle/fi ... _linda.htm <--PaintFX
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rdknowle/f ... josee.html <--PaintFX
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rdknowle/f ... s_hong.htm <--PaintFX
http://www.yiqunchen.com/publications/i ... ticle2.jpg <--Maya PaintFX for 3d scenes
http://www.newriders.com/articles/artic ... roduct_id={9A0A5379-17CF-48AE-897D-E56BEBDF3C6A} <--Fun with Maya 4‘s Paint Effects
Fur:
http://www-viz.tamu.edu/thelab/tutorial ... _pres.html <--Fur anyone?
http://www.poopculture.com/chris/styles ... t_tut.html <--Painterly Effect using Fur
Dynamics & Particles:
http://www.geocities.com/jozvex/tutoria ... ticle.html <--Inter Particle Collision
http://www.3dtreat.com/SiteC/assets/A_T ... index.html <--Clouds the old way before fluids
http://cade.scope.edu/courseware/notes/ ... plode.html <--Explosions (is offline alot)
http://www.animationartist.com/2002/01_ ... torial.htm <--Smoke
http://www.painfulurination.com/Tutoria ... breath.htm <--Using Particles to create cold breath
http://www.painfulurination.com/Tutoria ... _smoke.htm <-Creating cigarette smoke with particles
http://www.polyextrude.com/Tutorials/Ch ... smoke.html <-Smoke
Maya Live:
http://www.funny3d.com/tutorial/article/Live.pdf <--Maya Live
Cloth:
http://www.dressingsim.com/DFL_en/produ ... acket.html <--Making a Jacket
http://www.newriders.com/articles/artic ... roduct_id={DA0ABD4D-D5FF-4F52-A437-9C3B1E85DD62} <--Animating Realistic Cloth
Rendering & Lighting & Shading:
http://www.trinity3d.com/M4F/tutorials/UnWrap/Final.wmv <--How to Unwrap in Maya video with sound
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/st ... 8/ch19.pdf <--Skin Shading
http://www.kniffen.ca/index.php?target= ... re/UV1.php <--in this tutorial it s explain how to copy uv‘s among other
http://www.3dcentral.com/tut3.html <-- Texturing a head with SUb-D emulation
http://inti.planet-d.net/divers/mayatuts/neige/snow.htm <-- Snow
http://www.golemgraphics.com/Tutorials/ ... l_maya.htm <--Eyeball
http://www.3dluvr.com/pixho/ <-- All sorts of rendering goodies
http://www.cgvisual.com/dn/download_dns ... 1a_001.htm <--Some
Shaders
http://www.purefizz.com/maya/articles/shading_1/ <--Shading
http://www-viz.tamu.edu/students/amoran ... index.html <--Shader Networks
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7681 <--Photorealisitic Shading For Dummies
http://www.secondreality.ch/tutorials/tutorials.html <--Weathered textures
http://www.halbstein.com/tutorials/desk ... eThree.htm <--A Desk Lamp Light
http://www.cadmonkey.com/tut3.htm <--Shadow Quality
http://hussle.harvard.edu/~pyesley/waterwaves/ <--WaterWaves Plugin
Renderman:
http://www.hiddendinosaur.com/tutorial/ <--Using Maya UV‘s with Renderman
http://www.rendermania.com/HDRI/index.shtml <--HDRI with Renderman
http://www.arsc.edu/~brody/pages/tut.htm <--Prman Slim
http://www.renderman.org/RMR/Books/sig0 ... e16.pdf.gz <--TD Lore this file is actually a pdf and not gzipped
Mental Ray:
http://www.br1.org/2002/postnuke/html/m ... es&secid=1 <--Rendering with mental Ray
Non Maya specific resources for Rendering:
http://www.anticz.com/texture.htm <--General Texturing
http://www.anticz.com/drawing1.htm <--Using Light and Shadow
http://www.billmunnsgallery.com/techniques.html <--Bryce as a paint tool for textures
http://www.io.tudelft.nl/id-studiolab/g ... mpositing/ <--Interesting composite tutorial
http://www.menithings.com/How/Tilt/Hair ... ir_01.html <--Hair with Texture Maps
http://www.debevec.org/ <--HDRI Lighting
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~henrik/images/global.html <-- GI examples
http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/ ... iosity.htm <-- Explaination of Radiosity
http://www.flipcode.com/tutorials/tut_rad.htm <-- Another Explaination of Radiosity
http://www.softimage.com/Education/XSI/ ... R/beer.pdf <--Beer in XSI
http://cedar.intel.com/software/idap/me ... clouds.pdf <--Clouds conceptual
http://www.vterrain.org/Atmosphere/Clouds/index.html <--Clouds with VTP
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~harrism/SkyWorks/ <--Clouds with Skyworks
http://www.andrew-whitehurst.net/tutorials.html <--Lighting
Games:
http://unreal.epicgames.com/skeletal/UTSkelAnim.htm <-- Unreal Export
http://stecki.m4driving.sm/tips/tips.html <--Racer Export
MEL:
http://www.morten-moen.net/tutorials/ME ... pping.html <--MEL GUI
http://www.ewertb.com/maya/index.html <--MEL
http://www.gooroos.com/unitConv-essay.html <--Unit Conversions In Maya
API:
http://myfileformats.com/?telocator=dri ... d=hrt.html
<--Various File Formats
Historical:
http://www.goat.com/alias/alias_bible.html <-- A Bunch of AW PowerAnimator
Stuff
Mixed Bag:
http://www.simplymaya.co.uk/tut.shtml <--an assortment of video tutorials
http://www.planetsack.com/tutorials.asp <--Various
http://www.halbstein.com/tutorials.htm <--Various
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutori ... rials.html <--Various
http://www.taaffedesigns.net/CADA_class_2002.html <--Basic Character
Animation Start to Finish
http://www.maxschoenherr.de/animation/M ... Index.html <--Beginners in German and English
http://www.mtmckinley.net/frames.html <--Various
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials ... p?id=28561 <--A Taste of Maya
http://www.zoorender.com/html/tutorials.htm <--Various
http://gcs.design.ucla.edu/~jennifer/Ma ... orial.html <--Basic Maya
http://gcs.design.ucla.edu/~jennifer/Ma ... tcuts.html <--Maya Shortcuts
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/ <--a wide variety
http://www.phoenixtools.com/ <--Various
http://cade.scope.edu/courseware/notes/ <--Various
http://www.mtmckinley.net/tutorials.html <-- Various
http://www.3dsense.net/pastarticles.htm <--Various
http://www.blackorb.com/maya3dtutorial.html <--Various
http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Tmpl/M ... yle=normal <--a wide variety
http://www.3dlinks.com/tutorials_alias.cfm <--a wide variety
http://users.pandora.be/gds/maya/ <--a wide variety
http://www.zoorender.com/html/tutorials.htm <--a wide variety
http://www.jackals-forge.com/tutor.html <--a wide variety
http://www.rhonda.com/Maya_TopTen_09.html <--Various
http://www.simplymaya.co.uk/tut.shtml <--Various
http://www.3dspline.com/maya-index.html <--Various
http://www.maxschoenherr.de/animation/M ... Index.html <--Various
http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/3dsoftware/maya/ <--a wide variety
http://members.tripod.com/llobera/tutor ... rials.html <--Various basic tutorials
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~rdknowle/f ... rials.html <--Various
Non English Language:
http://morphose.free.fr/Tutorials/Tutorials.htm <--Maya/PRman in French
http://www.graphiland.fr/tutori_t/tutor ... ertQuery=1 <--In French
http://mickey.skku.ac.kr/~ulsiguya/Maya/noseENG.htm <--Modelling Pluto‘s Nose in a foreign Tongue
http://www.cradle.com.tw/maya/tut04.htm <--In Chinese
http://www.geocities.com/phing4/ <-- anybody know what langauge this is?
http://3dga.sns.hu/maya/renderman/elektro/thefirst.html <--In Polish?
http://www.artedinamico.com/download03.htm <--Facial Animation in Espanol
http://216.40.198.154/content/mayaforum/5 <--German Maya forum
http://mickey.skku.ac.kr/~ulsiguya/Maya ... torial.htm <--Modelling a head in a foreign language?
Link Lists:
http://www.web3dservice.com/maya_tutorials.html <--Link List
http://sv1.3dbuzz.com/3dbuzz_tutorials2.php?width=1280 <--Link List
http://www.therenderfarm.com/MAYA/tutor ... ation.html <--Link List
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Subject Q: Where Do I find Books and Learning Tools [re: admin]
Posted by gmask (Man of Many Masks)
Posted on 09/06/02 11:02 AM
http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Tmpl/M ... yle=normal
http://www.highend3d.com/bookstore/?section=maya
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.newriders.com
