February 2, 2011

In this hour-long series of eight free videos, you’ll learn how to control Maya particle and emitter nodes. We explore the Maya particle workflow, including animation, shading, and rendering. Some of the learning outcomes of this tutorial include:

Create a particle system with an emitter
Change particle and emitter attributes
Customize per-particle attributes with Creation Expressions
Employ the rand and seed MEL functions for consistent randomness
Map the Transparency of particles over their lifespan
Add special effects with Shader Glow
Build a Particle Disk Cache for faster and reliable rendering
Batch Render with the Maya Software renderer
Export an image sequence to a movie in Quicktime Pro

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