TUTORIALS

Here are a few tutorials to share with everyone.

Every once in a while it becomes necessary to present some information to the masses. Here are some tutorials and videos that were originally designed to be shared with people working with Molten Pictures LLC. Some of these tutorials are rough, others are quite detailed.

Feel free to download any of these tutorials and share them with anyone who might be interested.

Intro to Maya lecture, the basics of the Maya interface and workflow

I recorded this lecture as a reference for my Maya students. It is 45 min long and was something I could point students to as a reference to a lot of the technical things I thought was important to know about Maya. It was faster for me to just record a lecture, than repeat myself, or make a bunch of individual guides. Some of the topics I cover are setting up projects, the interface, simple modeling, simple texturing and rendering, the hypergraph, the node based nature of Maya, and much more.

This isn't exactly a tutorial but might be a good transition guide if you are coming over to Maya from some other software. The lecture used maya 2009, but all the basics carry over to even the newest Maya 2011. Click to stream or Right-Click to download the Maya intro movie, quicktime .mov 253 MB

Shake tutorial: fixing stuck or hot pixels

This is a video tutorial that covers an automated way to remove those annoying hot or stuck pixels that you might get from a digital video camera. These artifacts show up as white or black dots in your frame that don't move or change no mater what lens/zoom, or lighting condition you are in. This tutorial also shows you how to create a macro from a bunch of nodes so you can easily re-use the technique on many different shots.
Click to stream or Right-Click to download the Shake stuck pixel fix movie, quicktime .mov 18MB

Final Cut Pro Tutorial: Export a high quality H.264 and AAC Quicktime movie

This short video is a quick walk through on exporting a high quality film from Final Cut Pro. I have chosen to export a Quicktime with H.264 video compression, and AAC audio compression. H.264 video provides a great quality at manageable file sizes even for HD material.
Click to stream or Right-Click to download the Final Cut Pro export tutorial, quicktime .mov 9MB

X-Ray surface shader in Lightwave

This is a very old tutorial that has given me a lot of positive feedback. It's in a few places already but I figured I would format it and put it up here too.
Go to X-ray tutorial page