I'm making this rig that my professor calls a spine rig (sorry for my bad English). For some reason, when I try to make a main control curve or group to move the whole rig, each part ends up having its own transformation. I tried taking each of them out of their groups, removing some constraints, and following the steps in my professor's guide again, but it still doesn't work. I searched YouTube for this type of rig construction, but my professor specifically requires his own method and I couldn't find it anywhere. Also, if anyone knows where this type of structure comes from, that would be a huge help. If this weird transformation has happened to you before, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm sure it has to do with normals or something, but I don't know how to fix it nor why it's happening. Basically I made a hole in the wall by boolean out the cube of the window, extruded the bottom half of the hole inward, then extruded it up to make more wall. But bringing it up creates this weird shadow that I can't seem to get around.

Edit: I fixed it. I deleted the whole wall, bridged the gaps, created a new wall, and cut out the windows using the cutter and just deleting faces instead of the Boolean. I don’t think it was a topology issue, considering I’ve made windows through thick walls with a Boolean before and it shaded fine, but I couldn’t figure out what else it was.

In 2002, I became familiar with Maya's applications with the power of this commercial I saw on TechTV at the time. I laugh at it at times now because of how insane the price drop was, with Maya Complete going from $7.5K to about $2K.

Hey guys! I'm looking for a realistic dragon rig to use for a class project involving a battle scene.

The rig needs to be realistic in style, so I'm looking for something more grounded and detailed rather than cartoony or cutesy. It also needs to be a Maya-compatible rig.

I've been browsing different options, but I'm hesitant to purchase a rig without knowing whether it's well-made, fully functional, and has all the necessary controls. I'd love to hear recommendations for rigs you've personally used and can vouch for!

I'm a student, so while I don't have a strict budget, I'd prefer not to spend $500 on a rig for a class assignment. That said, I'm open to pricier options if the quality justifies the cost.

Other dragon-like creatures and monsters are welcome too, as long as they're non-humanoid.

I'd really appreciate any recommendations. Thanks!

Remember.

Hi everyone! Let’s see how this tool works on a bigger, bearded character! Check out how much time it can save. I’m using a MetaHuman sample mesh here, but this tool is compatible with all kinds of meshes. What do you think?

Noobie problem: Make a facade assignment for class. After applying textures, everything shows up grey and untextured in Arnold. My professor cant figure it out either. Can anyone help?

Hello friends! So I am learning about Cloth simulation and I am doing it for some of the characters in our upcoming short!

You've people have helped me out so much these past few months so I hope one of you has the answers to my question.

I'm doing nCloth for this snake character and she wears a little dress, the thing is, when I do point to surface constraints to help her keep her dress on, I notice the vertexes I choose stick to the neck.

Is there anyway for me to edit where these points come from? I've tried searching in the constraints attributes and can't find anything related about it (maybe I'm just blind)

I don't know why, but for these 4 faces, the texture flickers between what I want and another texture I use for a different bit. This is consistent on both my lower-end laptop and high-end PC, so it's not a graphics card issue.

What should a 3D student portfolio include in 2026? (Maya + Substance Painter)

- How important are UVs, topology, baking, PBR texturing and optimization?

- What additional Maya skills should I learn besides modeling?

- Should I learn rigging, animation, lighting, rendering, or basic scripting?

- Is it better to show a few highly polished projects or many different projects?

- What mistakes do you commonly see in student portfolios?

- Are there any skills that students are learning now that are actually useful for getting hired?

My goal is to make a portfolio that looks industry-ready rather than just like a collection of student exercises.

Any advice from people currently working in the industry would be really appreciated. Thanks!

I created interactive hair based on my base hair. I simulated the curves and then applied the simulation cache to the interactive hair.

The animation started off well. https://imgur.com/a/lfgnyFx

But then, it started clipping through everything and stopped following the curves. https://imgur.com/a/wWckYlr

https://imgur.com/a/i0cd8Kq

https://imgur.com/a/FbSh4FI

Later, it went back to following the path of the curves somewhat. https://imgur.com/a/9UmxMHx

I’d like to know if there’s a way to fix this clipping issue.

Xgen Interactive Groom Editor:

https://imgur.com/a/EzMciwL

https://imgur.com/a/l7liSKA

Hello everyone! We’ve completed the character rigging system for HP Art Toolset using the same simple workflow:

Guides → Build Rig

And now, we’ve released a major upgrade for Facial Character Rigging.

No weight painting

No joints

Works with any mesh

Using only blendshapes and our custom algorithms, this rigging tool is designed to dramatically reduce the time you spend on character rigging.

Build your facial rig faster, cleaner, and with a much simpler workflow.

Try it for free, and we’d love to hear your feedback. Thank you!

This is my final shot from IAnimate's Creature Workshop 1.

I've worked in AA and indie for a long time never really touching much creature, this is the first shot where a creature walks across a scene (that's not a walk loop) with multiple interactions I've done in about 7 years.

I had only 23, How to extend it to 200? What version i am gonna use? and send me a video how to do it. Link: https://create3dcharacters.com/maya-tool-control-creator/

Gaussian Splats and raw point clouds into clean, usable meshes directly inside Autodesk Maya.

In this video I show the Gaussian Remesh and Quad Remesh workflows of my plugin Point Cloud Snap Pro, using a scanned fly as a test case.

What you'll see:
- Loading a Gaussian Splat / point cloud into Maya
- Gaussian Remesh: Resolution, Padding, Sigma Cutoff, Footprint Voxels, Scale Multiplier, Min Opacity, Fill Cavities
- Dual Contouring extraction and mesh smoothing (Lambda / Mu)
- Quad Remesh of the resulting mesh for clean topology
- Tips to get from noisy splats to a production-ready mesh

Im a 3rd year student studying Maya at my university. I'm so used to people talking about and complaining about Maya as if she was a person. I tried to take it upon myself to turn that idea into a real character/mascot and explore what it could be visually developed as. Here is my take on her!
I hope you like her as much as I do :)

I know about Fiverr, but from what I've seen there it seems to be mostly people selling individual assets.

I'm looking for someone who would be willing to make a relatively simple complete Maya scene for me, something around the level of the example (Maybe a bit better actually).

I do have a different scene in mind, but I'm very flexible with the concept and I'm also happy to adapt it based on what the artist is good at or comfortable making.

I have no idea what something like this would normally cost, so I'd also appreciate some example prices or rough estimates. If anyone here does this kind of work, or knows a good place or person to look, let me know.

Idk if this is the right subreddit for this either, if it's not, please guide me to the right one🥹

So when I, Import an image. it comes out as a line. It only happens for this image, no problem with other image. Any idea on how to fix this? Thank you in advance.

Hi!! I am trying to use the MultiplyDivide math node in maya, but I cant find it on the Utilities panel in the Node Editor. And if I use Tab to search it I get a different node, and it doesn't have enough inputs and outputs. Also, the color is different I am looking for the purple node. Help :(