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Advanced Techniques

The Advanced Techniques tutorials are designed for intermediate and advanced users and concentrate on specific, complex topics and techniques in Autodesk® Maya® software. View PDFs of the lessons and download the scene files you want to work with.

Maya nCloth
The Maya nCloth advanced techniques tutorial demonstrates a workflow that allows you to simulate high-resolution clothing mesh using nCloth. In the tutorial, two lower-resolution versions of a high-resolution mesh clothing are converted to nCloth and then simulated. Using a wrap deformer, the nCloth objects become influence objects for the high-resolution mesh clothing, which then behaves the same as the simulated nCloth. Using this workflow, you can quickly create animated behaviors unique to simulated cloth using high-resolution meshes.

Maya 2010

Tutorial (pdf - 5432Kb)
Lesson Data (zip - 46135Kb)

Maya 2009

Tutorial (pdf - 1280Kb)
Lesson Data (zip - 47325Kb)

Maya Muscle
The Maya Muscle advanced techniques tutorials illustrate how to use the Maya Muscle skin deformer for your own characters and projects. The Muscle Builder example is designed to offer a basic overview of Maya Muscle features as applied to cMuscleSpline-based muscles. In addition, you’ll learn the basic workflow and features of the Maya Muscle Creator in several lessons.

Maya 2010

Tutorial (pdf - 6582Kb)
Lesson Data (zip - 31590Kb)

Maya 2009

Tutorial (pdf - 2036Kb)
Lesson Data (zip - 37750Kb)