[MULTI] Digital Tutors - Set Dressing and Design in Maya

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[MULTI] Digital Tutors - Set Dressing and Design in Maya

 

 

Digital Tutors

 

Set Dressing and Design in Maya

 

3 hrs. 41 min.

 

Released on December 5' date=' 2007

 

Project Files Included (149 MB)

 

 

 

Required Software: Maya 8 and up (2008 required for project files)

 

 

 

 

 

Learn a production workflow to layout, set dressing, and time-saving techniques for modeling, texturing, and scene

 

 

 

development. Contains over 3 hours of project-based training and guides artists step-by-step through a proven

 

 

 

approach to story-telling with set dressing, designing with art direction, and processes of building natural sets and

 

 

 

environments as seen in animated feature films.

 

 

 

Popular highlights include: Using References in Set Design; Creating a Natural Layout; Story-telling Through Layout;

 

 

 

Working with Art Direction; Creating Foliage with Paint Effects; Placing Models with geometryPaint; Displacing

 

 

 

Geometry with Height Maps; Working with Issues of Scale; Rigging Props; Animating Props; Modeling Natural Objects and

 

 

 

Props; Adding Procedural Texture; Adding mental ray Shaders; Painting Placement/Texture Guides; Importing Artwork;

 

 

 

Scene Management.

 

27 lessons

 

1. Introduction and project overview; importing artwork of the island 5 min. 9 sec

 

2. Blocking in the island and coastline 8 min. 52 sec.

 

3. Adding an ocean plane 12 min. 53 sec.

 

4. Adding mid ground and back ground hills 7 min.

 

5. Sculpting the beach with Artisan 11 min. 11 sec.

 

6. Painting a layout guide onto the island 8 min. 46 sec.

 

7. Building a palm tree 11 min. 49 sec.

 

8. Working on the palm leaves 14 min. 42 sec.

 

9. Finishing the palm tree model 6 min. 32 sec.

 

10. Rigging the tree for interactive deformation 7 min. 50 sec.

 

11. Arranging the trees on the beach 10 min. 49 sec.

 

12. Building rocks 10 min. 12 sec.

 

13. Adding texture procedurally 5 min. 41 sec.

 

14. Placing rocks using geometryPaint 5 min. 45 sec.

 

15. Building a vine with a bend deformer 7 min. 48 sec.

 

16. Placing vines 5 min. 10 sec.

 

17. Creating a natural layout with plants and bushes 8 min. 7 sec.

 

18. Adding grass to transition areas; breaking up lines 7 min. 18 sec.

 

19. Placing the hut and modifying terrain 5 min. 37 sec.

 

20. Creating a sense of scale 5 min. 6 sec.

 

21. Adding props to create a story 12 min. 5 sec.

 

22. Painting the beach texture 10 min. 6 sec.

 

23. Finishing the beach texture 7 min. 42 sec.

 

24. Adding foliage to the mid ground hill with Paint Effects 9 min. 26 sec.

 

25. Displacing the background hill with a height map 4 min. 35 sec. Details »

 

26. Adding a sky 3 min. 13 sec.

 

27. Adding the ocean shader and environment fog; conclusion 7 min. 44 sec.

 

 

 

Download link from [MULTI'] :

 

http://www.wupload.com/file/115889348/DT-S3t-Dre551ng-Des1gn-Maya.part2.rar
http://www.wupload.com/file/117264399/DT-S3t-Dre551ng-Des1gn-Maya.part3.rar
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http://www.fsn.com/file/1736944054/DT-S3t-Dre551ng-Des1gn-Maya.part2.rar
http://www.fsn.com/file/1733001854/DT-S3t-Dre551ng-Des1gn-Maya.part3.rar