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In this tutorial I will show you how to cloth up your characters in Maya using powerful built-in plug-in CpCloth, by doing this tutorial you will be able to understand fundamentals of Maya`s cloth system. © Aziz Khan
In this video tutorial I'll explain in depth how to use the mia_roundCorners node newly introduced in maya 8.5. Its use with maya materials as well as mental ray materials and mia_material will be discussed and explained in detail. © Nakhle Georges
In this maya video tutorial i'll explain in depth, how to create GrayScale representation of ZDepth as well as Height fields, using many methods including"shading networks" & "mel scripting". © Nakhle Georges
This is a step-by-steptutorial that explanehow to create 350Z's body using polygonal modeling in Maya environment,but you can apply this technique to other poly-modeling software. © Dias
I have crated a video tutorial with voice in Maya that how to create custom marking menus. © Aziz Khan
In this tutorial I will show you the most important part of (Active Rigid Body) and (Passive Rigid Body) called (Set Active Key) and ?(Set Passive Key) these 2 options some time very necessary to work with, allot of people asked me to help them or to write a tutorial about (Active Key) and (Passive Key) that is why I am here to show you how to do it. © Aziz Khan
This is common problem with these kind of collusion objects with dynamics every object has (Back And Front) that is why some time in modeling faces are reversing accidentally , to solve this problem I am writing you this tutorial, so hope it will help you to solve your problem. © Aziz Khan
This is from one of my tutorials series, in this tutorial I will show you how to work with (Instancer) inside Maya. © Aziz Khan
In this tutorial I will show you how to use (Curve flow) with instancer to create flock of birds, insects, Fishes, sheep's, cows and etc. Maya has wide range of powerful effects to create unbelievable animations and visual effects, that is why the most film industries are prefer to work with Maya. © Aziz Khan
In this tutorial I will show you how to work with (Active rigid bodies) and (Passive rigid bodies) to collide object in the scene. © Aziz Khan
In this tutorial I will show you how to manipulate particle effect from shower head into tub and collide with surface of tub react as like water, Particles are widely use to create visual effects like Smoke, Water, Fire, different kind explosions as you watching in movies most of the time. © Aziz Khan
Hi every friends! in this tutorial we will learn the basic modeling in Alias Maya version 6.0 in this tutorial we will use allot extrude, scale, move,  and split polygon object to create a LCD Monitor. © Aziz Khan
In this tutorial we will learn how to simulate Maya cloth effect with uniform field to react the forces. dynamics are widely use in Maya before going to start this tutorial you should have basic knowledge of Maya i am using Maya version 7.0 you can use any version regardless. © Aziz Khan
Currently, one of the best ways of achieving photo-realistic imagery is to render using Mental Ray for Maya. Mental Ray offers a Global Illumination and Final Gather solution, which when combined, simulates the physics of real world lighting effects. © Philippe Le Miere
Tutorial "How create a simple crowd" shows how to generate a simulation with the function provided byCrowd Maker. © Adriano Rinaldi
This is an overview of creating high polygon realistic 3D characters  ( with a particular leaning toward the creation of the above model ). © D.Pattenden
This tutorial focuses on modelling an arch without using the boolean operation. © Millies45
Part 4. Welcome to the final part of the Ford Focus tutorial series. While this is the last part of modelling the body , there might be more tutorials on detailing and interior. This is just for those who want to smooth out their model ready for texturing and son on. © Alex
Part 3. Start making the low polygon model of the car. © Alex
Part 2. We will be starting out simple by creating wheels for the car. Well actually we will be creating two different designs. This just to show you how easy it is to do and how you can make any design you want in a matter of minutes. © Alex
Part 1. Set up the image planes for good reference! This is part 1 of tutorial series on how to model a ford focus WRX. In this part you will learn how to properly set up the image planes. © Alex
In this technique we first create a low detals head by nurbs patch modelling then convert it to a polygon object, then we add detail to it. . . © 3DRAF.com
Nice tutorial of modelling a Character in Maya4 (include 44 images). © Carsten Lind
Welcome to my character walk through I'm not sure if you can call this a tutorial as I will just be showing different stages in the building of a character called Kreacher © Julian J
Welcome to my Third tutorial. In This one I will be texturing the head of the character I made in my modeling tutorial. © Julian J
We shall consider the following questions: What Are Smoothed Polygons? Why Use Smoothed Polygons? What technical problems are associated with smoothed polygons? How can I use History and MEL scripting to fix these problems and solutions. Handing your model over to a character setup artist etc... © Ben Bathen

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http://www.zoorender.com/html/tutorials.htm
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/
http://www.3dgate.com/techniques/tutorials.html
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorial.asp?id=28561
http://www.boris3d.de/tutorials.html
http://www.digital-tutors.com/digital_tutors/maya/index.htm
http://www.amazing3d.com/services/tutmaya.html
http://www.maya.digication.com/

Reference materials

Wide range of reference materials from cars to gunshttp://www.onnovanbraam.com/
Human Surface Anatomy http://www.bartelby.com/107/279.html
Gray's anatomy
http://www.bartelby.com/107/
A great resource for human anatomy referencehttp://www.fineart.sk
A great resource for vehicle reference & blueprints http://www.suurland.com/
SMALL Vintage Car Blueprints http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/9275/

More blueprints you will find at the CGFolks forum!

MAYA TUTORIALS (Modeling)

The Art of Poly Modelling http://avl.etsu.edu/intranet/resources/polys/default.htm
Poly Modelling a Head by the Hobbit Guy http://www.thehobbitguy.com/tutorials/polymodeling/index.html
Modelling a Suburu http://www.gmask.com/tutorials/wrx_tutorial/Tutorial/tutorial.html
The art of rounding corners on nurbs models http://www.gmask.com/tutorials/corners/corners.html
Creating fillets without using a fillet tool http://www.gmask.com/tutorials/fillets/fillets.htm
Poly Head Tutorialhttp://www.worldofmaya.com/t_poly.html
SubD'shttp://plissken.fatalunity.com/
Nurbs Modelling http://www.swanimator.com/tipstutorials/tiptutorials.htm
Modeling a giraffe with Polygons http://www.blackorb.com/mayagiraffe3d.html
Sub-D Head Modelling http://www.geocities.com/susantio/head01.htm
Quake Models in Maya

http://members.lycos.co.uk/peoplesfactory/modeling.htm

Modelling a person from a cylinder http://www.okita.com/tutorials/maya02.html
Human Head Shading http://users.pandora.be/gds/maya/indian_2.htm
Modelling a head from a cube http://www.maya3d.dk/Tutorials/HeadModeling/HeadModeling.htm
Patch Modelling a head http://www.swanimator.com/tipstutorials/patchmodelling.htm
Modelling the human head http://coldfusion.art.msstate.edu/camenisch/thehumanhead/
Modeling a human body http://www.kcc.zaq.ne.jp/nkj/sculpland/englishver/06TMC00.html
Modelling Frankenstein http://www.3dchopshop.com/tutorials/frankenstein.htm
Modelling a Human Head with Maya Subdivisions http://www.yiqunchen.com/publications/images/article1.jpg
Hair for 3D Characters http://www.newriders.com/articles/article.asp

MEL:

MEL GUI http://www.morten-moen.net/
MELhttp://www.ewertb.com/maya/index.html
Unit Conversions In Maya http://www.gooroos.com/unitConv-essay.html

Link Lists:

http://www.maya3d.dk/links/tutorials/(more than 200 tutorials)
http://www.web3dservice.com/maya_tutorials.html
http://sv1.3dbuzz.com/3dbuzz_tutorials2.php?width=1280
http://www.therenderfarm.com/MAYA/tutorials/animation.htm


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