In this tutorial we will light up an interior scene which should help you understand how lights works.

In this tutorial we will understand the Area Light and Volume Light.

This is last series from Nonlinear Deformer series. Wave deformer hardly suited for making animation expanding ring of ripple. To apply wave I recommend that you to apply high resolution object...

Now we will learn about Twist Deformer. Twist is tool which very simple among other nonlinear deformers. Actually I seldom apply twist for modeling or animation. But I have example using twist for modeling and hopefully this example earns good for you.

After you studies Sine Deformer now it’s the time studies Squash Deformer. Same as Sine deformer I have not experience using squash for modeling, so I don’t have modeling tutorial for Squash Deformer.

After studying Bend and Flare Deformer now it’s the moment learning Sine. Differs from Flare Deformer, where I apply Flare just for modeling (has not got idea to apply Flare for animation)...

At this tutorial we will learn how to using Flare Deformer. There are some parameter in Flare Deformer which I will not explain, because I already explains in Part I.

I will summarize the workflow I used for one of my characters with lots of images and some print-screens directly from the applications used (Maya/Mudbox/Photoshop, etc ...), also at the end I will provide some info about tangent space normal maps so...

Hello everyone and welcome once again in part 2 of (Understanding lights in Maya) tutorial, well in this part 2 we will explore Point Light and the Spot Light.

This is the first series out of six series which I plan. Nonlinear Deformers consisted of Bend, Flare, Sine, Squash, Twist, and Wave.