This tutorial is intended to show you how to make a Coca-Cola bottle using Maya. Although, you may think making a bottle is trivial, but it is easy to overlook some of the tiny details that make your final image more desirable to watch. We will also try to give you some tips, which can help you with your workflow when you are modeling in Maya.

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In this tutorial we'll teach you how to make a picture of a glass using caustics. Some knowledge of the Maya interface will be used for this tutorial like shelves, menu sets, attributes editer, basic knowledge of what rendering is, etc. But still this is a beginners tutorial.

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Contrary to other classic 3d package, Maya has not dedicated tools to spread objects and it is often asked how to indeed. Placing each objects would be stupid and exhausting. In this article, we demonstrate five methods and some talking boards threads.

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This is not a step by step tutorial. We will summarize the workflow we used for one of the characters with lots of images and some print-screens directly from the applications used (maya/mudbox/photoshop etc ...), also in the end we will provide some info about tangent space normal maps so you could think of this tutorial as mainly normal mapping related stuff.

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This tutorial will teach you the differences of displacement and bump maps and normal maps and how to assign them to a shader and a model. This is just an overview tutorial on both subjects, and will teach the basic attributes of both of them.

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Let's talk about UV distortion caused by polygon smoothing in Maya.

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