3D Tutorials by dr-tutorial.com

Set Driven Keys, or SDKs, are a very powerful tool in 3D. With them, you can semi-automate a process that will be done over and over with a simple control. In this tutorial, we'll walk through the process of creating a simple SDK with a cube.

In this tutorial, I'll take you through the process of making a body out of a nurbs sphere, and then converting it into polygons for stitching the arms to the body.

We continue stitching our arms to our body and clean up the geometry, getting it ready for rigging.

This tutorial goes over the basic fundamentals of stitching polygon arms onto a polygon body (at least as far as I've learned and gotten it to work).

This tutorial will introduce you to the essence of rigid body dynamic through a simple bouncing ball exercise.

In this second part, we'll go over how to make some arms and line them up so they'll be ready for combining into the body.. Don't forget to click on the picture to get a bigger version.

Ever want to make a really quick and really simple eye that you can use on multiple characters and change the colors really quickly? Now you can! This simple tutorial will walk you through using ramps to make an eyeball.

Images planes are a very useful tool that we have in Maya.

In this tutorial, I'll be walking through the simple creating of a sword blade. This is a total polygon tutorial, so if you're not familiar with polygons, go brush up on them. Created in Maya 4.0, these ideas should stretch to all version of Maya that I know of.