Batch Rendering 102: If you are new to batch rendering I suggest you have a look at my step-by-step tutorial here: Rendering several maya scenes and cameras The following tutorial is to answer the most common questions I am e-mailed regarding batch rendering How do I make the batch renderer us...

Rendering Realistic Dinosaurs Having many tons worth of digital prehistoric animals under our belt.  A number of  people have asked about my rendering set-up at dotnamestudios.  This tutorial is not about displacement maps or how to model but taken from the point after you have your model finali...

Backwards compatibility for Maya Long a bug bear for many Autodesk products, fortunatley there is a solution for Maya; If you are using 8.5 and want to import later versions such as 2008; open>options box there's a "ignore version" setting that opens pretty much anything. XminusOne for p...

I must thank Davvey for sharing this with me, there are few others that deserve credit,  their names are in the downloaded script file. If you download a lot of scripts this is a goodie...your script folder pops up inside Maya as a drop-down: download these scripts:DVY_menu.zip Put the DVY_Scr...

Loading scripts in Maya sounds like programming and often sends artists hiding under their desks but really it is a quick easy process and opens a whole world of amazing little tools- Highend3d and other resources are packed with amazing scripts and tools that are made by kind souls and handed o...

Compositing 101: The Black edge ----- The black edge...that faint line of premultiplied colour can be a devil if nobody has ever shown you how to get rid of it. Here is your frame turtle_0034 Here is your background sea footage: The problem is this horrible faint black edge that you ca...

THE PROBLEM: You need your animation rendered by the morning. You have 3 scenes to render each scene is saved in a different maya file and one of the scenes you have two cameras, you need both of them rendered and you are a tired artist not a programmer. THE SOLUTION: Open notepad type "render ...