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It is always great to learn new animation tools and techniques that can help you to bring your creations to life. In this tutorial we will learn how to use Maya's powerful animation, dynamics, and camera tools to create an explosive crash effect between two vehicles.
This is Day 1 of a multi-day training series on Maya Dynamics.
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( ADD YOURS )Craigsnedeker June 19th
Preview not loading ……
( )ev149 June 22nd
it works fine for me, it just takes a little while…
( )Tomas Sinkunas June 19th
yeah, pretty cool.
( )Love the tut. Great work.
miikkke June 19th
patience!
( )Joe June 19th
This sounds exciting but I want to see a preview! It looks like a crashing lego car from the picture
( )Øyvind Nordhagen June 19th
I understand that stuff like this needs to be somewhat compressed in time because of the sheer number of operations involved. But perhaps you could start with a separate tutorial on modeling these bricks in maya, because I learned nothing from this tutorial by watching stuff happening in fast forward motion and listen to you mumbling along.
( )suBi June 21st
hey…eventho i feel the same way… i’m trying to … most of it is really practise… get “Introducing Maya 2008 or 2009″ by Dariush Derakhshani … it has helped me a lot on the basics.. and I’m still learning… it teaches you a lot about the basic modeling in maya…
also, check out fxphd.com.. they have maya tutorial classes and supply video tutorials… but a little expensive comparatively, but surely worth it.. hope that helps.
and if you have a bg in anyother 3d programs like c4d or 3dsmax… then it much more easier to grasp …
( )gilahd June 19th
LEGO SMAAAAAASHHHH!!!!
( )klaus June 19th
nice one. waiting for part 2…
( )kozyadam June 19th
Could You provide us with the link for the website about LEGO block sizes?
btw the final effect can be seen in the beginning of the screencast.
( )rishteria June 19th
so nice, and very good tutorial, thanx for inspiration
( )Alvaro June 19th
awesome!!! gonna try it
( )Kenneth Paulino June 19th
Wow, I’m very impressed with the quickness and level of tutorials here on CG tuts. I’ve been a tuts plus member for a while and can’t wait to see this site on the network take off and hopefully become part of the plus members program. Keep up the good work guys.
( )Dave June 19th
I was excited about the preview but it’s now working. This looks like it could be awesome but I want to check out the result first
( )charlie June 19th
its a sick tut but the compression settings could use some work because the background grid is flickering on and off like crazy.
( )Dj June 19th
Don’t use Maya – but the technique and creative enterprise was worth watching.
I waited for over a minute for the “preview” to begin playing. It looks as though you are going to load the entire file before it plays (ie no streaming) – if that is the case, you probably should give us some hint about how large the file is (ie how long should we wait), unfortunately tonight I didn’t have the patience. Also: it seems that the play is either ALL or NOTHING on the sound (ie. mute only) – how about a volume control?
( )Markus Gustafsson June 20th
Great tutorial!
( )D.V. June 20th
Nice preview, but I sure hope we’ll be seeing some Newtek Lightwave tutorials here soon seeing as they are the standard for most television programming….oh yeah, and more blender….maya and xsi and 3dmax is way to expensive in any case for most single freelance artists…..
Keep up the great tuts though…..
( )Ross June 20th
Can you please change the video to streaming
( )Sirwan June 20th
the video takes too long to load…. why did you even change it?
blip.tv was the best.
( )Dario Gutierrez June 20th
Great tut dude, this feature is good.
( )John H. June 20th
very nice.
( )Brett June 20th
Oh wow, that’s a great looking crash…I want to try this!
( )Diego SA June 20th
LEEEEEEEEEEEEEGGGGGOOOOOO!
( )elinix June 20th
Great tut looks amazing
( )james June 21st
its awesome cos its lego! thanks heaps
( )Satya Meka June 21st
Great! All I suggest is to use something like KeyCastr to display the keys you are pressing so that it will be much clear.
( )Bensaad Mohammed June 21st
Great !!!!!!!
( )suBi June 21st
gr8 stuff alex… haven’t watched the tutorial yet… just the preview… i’m learning maya from scratch… and so far its been an interesting tool…. this tutorial will be an icing on the cake… after i finish modelling my first car
thanx so much
( )udon June 21st
thanks for the videotutorial
( )azril June 22nd
make the tutorial downloadable please
( )Tyler June 22nd
FYI: You spelled Premiere wrong on your resume.
( )Cesar June 23rd
I love legos, I love Maya and I love 3D. That’s all I need in my life.
( )chaos_theory June 23rd
OMG!! this tut owns. Im going to get strait on to trying this. Thanks.
( )sander July 7th
What is the link for the bricks plz email me @ sanda2k2@gmail.com
( )Bilal July 8th
Lego Dimensions
http://www.robertcailliau.eu/Lego/Dimensions/zMeasurements-en.xhtml
( )Bilal July 8th
Oh also, when talking, please dont whisper the measurements to yourself, compulsive people like me really want to make it EXACTLY like you do :/
Otherwise thanks
( )shubhangi July 23rd
d video totally very good i liked the d idea of animation the crash is owsome
( )prashanth July 23rd
the tutorials r weary good I love Maya and I love 3D. That’s all I need in my life.
( )Ruchit July 30th
waste of time in modeling part,if u want to give tutorial on dynamics then plz start from ready made scene with complete modeling.Thank you.
( )Joao July 31st
Thanks man, great tutorial
( )Kuya Miharu Haris September 9th
best tutorial 4 me. thanx a lot!
( )khuyagaa October 8th
where is part2.
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