Archive for the ‘Maya’ Category
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Technique Documentation- Explosion with Maya Fluids
Fluid Effects: A realistic fluid simulator based on simplified, incompressible Navier–Stokes equations for simulating non-elastic fluids. It is effective for smoke, fire, clouds and explosions, as well as many thick fluid effects such as water, magma or mud. added in Maya 4.5 (Wikipedia). According to NASA, the Navier-Stokes equation describes how the velocity, pressure, temperature, and density of a […]
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Animation: Growing a Tree in Maya
Before I begin, I would like to touch on the history of 3D animation. Although there was experimentation with computer graphics prior to the 1980’s, 3D photo-realistic graphics didn’t truly take shape until the first movie to use solid 3D computer generated imagery. That movie was TRON, in 1982. (I don’t mean to discredit all […]