Free Maya Tutorials Collection

A collection of Maya Tutorials

In this page you can find a collection of Free Autodesk Maya Tutorials. I cover a range of topics such lighting, rendering and 3d modelling. I take care to write about the many tips and tricks I learnt doing my computer graphics jobs to let you know how to achieve realistic renders in Maya.
If you want to know a lot of Maya tricks you can consider to buy my Kindle Book, it is also an appreciated contribution for my free Maya tutorials!

Free Maya tutorial: Clouds in Mental Ray Phyisical Sun and Sky tutorial
Free Maya Tutorials
Antonio Bosi

Clouds in Mental Ray Physical Sun and Sky

In this Free Maya Tutorial we are going to take a look at an effective and quite simple technique to achieve realistic clouds in Mental Ray Physical Sun and Sky inside Maya. Adding clouds can greatly increase the appeal of your renders. If you want to do realistic exterior renders in Maya and Mental Ray you can’t miss this article! TYPE: Free maya tutorial render  CATEGORY: Maya render, Mental Ray Render

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Free Maya Tutorial: make a carpet in Maya, 3d model and render
Free Maya Tutorials
Antonio Bosi

Create Carpet in Maya Free Tutorial

Autodesk Maya has many powerful tools to create your own carpet. I find simple way to make a rug in Maya that is also compatible with any render engine. In this free Maya tutorial we will see a simple and effective tecnique to build your own realistic carpet in Maya and Mental Ray using polygon modeling, mental ray proxies and simple mel scripting. Enjoy the carpet creation in Maya! TYPE: Free maya tutorial CATEGORY: Modeling, Render Maya, render Mental Ray

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Free Maya Tutorial: Realistic Exterior render in Maya and Mental Ray
Free Maya Tutorials
Antonio Bosi

Maya Exterior render tutorial (Mental Ray)

Here we are going to see a very simple but effective technique to lit and render your exterior scenes using Maya and Mental Ray renderer. The Mental Ray built-in Sun and Sky system is one of the more powerful tool inside Maya. Some people are tempted to think that it’s something for noobs and starters… believe me it’s not! Let’s get started with this free Maya tutorial about relistic exterior render in Maya. TYPE: Free maya render tutorial CATEGORY: Maya exterior render, Mental Ray Exterior

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Free Maya tutorial: realistic exterior render with Mental Ray proxies
Free Maya Tutorials
Antonio Bosi

Maya Mental Ray Proxies tutorial

Maya integrates one of the most important Mental Ray feature, that can make you render billions of polygons. It’s an easy and very effective way to populate your Maya and Mental Ray scenes with thousands of objects like plants and trees without overload your system. Your CPU, your RAM and your girlfriend will thank you because of the time you can save with this trick! Go ahead and start this free Maya tutorial. TYPE: Free maya tutorial CATEGORY: Render Maya tutorial, render Mental Ray tutorial

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Free Maya tutorial: create realistic bed in Maya and Marvelous Designer
Free Maya Tutorials
Antonio Bosi

Create Realistic Bed in Maya (Free Maya tutorial)

In this free Maya tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic bed using Maya and Marvelous Designer, an external software which is great in cloth simulations and fashion design. Download Marvelous Design now to learn clothing techniques with its 30 days free trial version. Are you ready to learn amazing techniques combining this two great softwares? TYPE: Free Maya tutorial, Marvelous designer tutorial CATEGORY: Modeling, Cloth simulation

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Free Maya tutorial: setup a render farm in Mental Ray to render faster
Free Maya Tutorials
Antonio Bosi

Setup a Renderfarm in Maya and Mental Ray

Maya and Mental ray are one of the most used 3d graphic production platforms over the world. One of the reasons is their easy and very powerful multi-platform distributed rendering capabilies. Have you ever wonder to speed up you render speed by 2x 4x 8x and so on? Just follow my Mental Ray distributed rendering guide: maya render farm setup! TYPE: Free maya tutorial CATEGORY: Rendering Maya, Hardware, Mental Ray Render

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FREE MAYA TUTORIALs BY CATEGORY

There are a lot of Autodesk Maya tutorials on the net, but just few are made by a real experienced professionals. I put the all my experience to make my Maya Free Tutorials easy to follow, short and straight to the point. Become a professional 3d Maya expert is possible, just believe it.

As any other computer graphic expert you need to use a lot of different software and plugins: Autodesk Maya is the heart of 3D production, but you need to learn other Maya Plugins and Render Engines to make professional renders. Below I made a selection of the best Maya tutorials organized by 3D software category:
Maya Arnold Tutorials, Maya Modeling Tutorials, Vray Maya Tutorials.