Hello every buddy, in this tutorial I will show you the most important part of (Active Rigid Body) and (Passive Rigid Body) called (Set Active Key) and ?(Set Passive Key) these 2 options some time very ... more

Setup for Phone cord: Shape/ffd and cluster

Introduction to the workings of Maya Cloth & Create a sheet and rest it on top of a bed. Elements Cloth sheet Polygon mattress Polygon Box spring Overview: In this example, we create a polygon ... more

In this tutorial we will animate a group of missiles being shot towards the sky using the ’Instancers’ features in Maya. Play the animation below to see an example of what we are going to create in this ... more

Hi my name is Vishal Kawji. This is my first tutorial for 3DTotal.com, so lets start modelling. This tutorial is made using maya 6.5. For this tutorial we will need a robotic arm so lets model one ... more

One of the biggest problems in doing any type of camera work on Maya is that the camera is always too clean and perfect. Thus creating a very cold camera. If we take a second to notice the way the cameras ... more

This is a setup to create a dynamic camera. 3d movements are often too perfect and lacks noise and jitters from the real world. There are several ways that you can add noise to the movements. This one ... more

I had had to make a rig for an underwater vehicle with some fly by wire parts coming off of it. We wanted to have control over them, and be able to position them by hand, but seeing as how everything ... more

Hello every one!! And welcome to Maya expression tutorial, in this tutorial I will show you how to rotate, scale, and spin your objects thorough expressions using Maya, this tutorial is very handy to ... more

Hey there peeps. This is my second tutorial. Yay...anyways lets get to it shall we. This tutorial will focus on creating a foot setup with a foot controller and a footRoll attribute that will be done ... more