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Escape Studio's May Free Tutorial: Sculpt Atmospheric Smoke in Maya Fluids

May Free Tutorial: Sculpt Atmospheric Smoke in Maya Fluids

Escape Studio's April Free Tutorial: Scurrying Scarab Beetles

Scurrying Scarab Beetles

I am sure most of you have seen " The Mummy" and " The Mummy Returns".If you also want to create the the thousands of beatles coming out from a hole or from the demon mouth effects which is shown in the movie . Escape studios vfx aritst and tutor Dan Shutt  will demonstrate you to how to animate thousands of beatels using Maya Goal  Objects and Particle Instance.

Escape Studios: January's Free Tutorial Animate a Bird & Make it Fly - Part 2

Last November Escape Studios gave away the 1st part of there free animation tutorial entitles "Animating a Bird & Making it Fly " in which they covered the mechanics of the bird locomotion and now they released the second part of the tutorial in which Alex Williams will demonstrate you how to take a simple avian flap cycle and put it in a believable environment. You'll also learn how to add personality and character to your work while retaining a simple workflow.  Learning to create a motion path and  to attach the bird to the motion path in also included in it. Finally to add a simple texture and lighting to the environment and to create a batch render to create a final shot for a animation showreel .

Duration: 22 minutes

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Escape Studios: December's Free Tutorial - Mastering Maya's Transfer Maps

Escape Studios released another free tutorial, In  this 26 Min  video  Tutor, Simon Fenton will explain you how to use default settings to achieve quick results, you’ll also learn how to bake a texture map from multiple pieces of geometry and how to manipulate settings.

Tutorials Breakdowns

• How to use default settings to achieve quick results
• How to manipulate settings and explore varying effects
• How to bake a diffuse texture map
• How to compare maps to gain control of the final result

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