MAYA TUTORIAL: Liquid Metal Man PART 3

PART 3 of 3

PART 1: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=sXDKt5Momtg
PART 2: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=JdjLVAZqCmA


FINAL EFFECT CAN BE SEEN HERE: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=C5rxjk5rqAI

This tutorial shows you how to create the liquid metal effect as seen in Terminator 2. To do this tutorial, you must have Maya 2009, because of the new nParticles feature.

I apologize if you don't think I'm very good at this whole video tutorial thing, this was my first try.

The resources it mentions in the tutorial can be downloaded here: http://www.freewebs.com/coldsidedigital/resources.zip

If you use this tutorial and make a cool effect, or even if you just make whats in this tutorial, please post it as a video response, I would love to see peoples work.

Feel free to leave comments asking questions, even if its not about this tutorial in general. Requests for tutorials will also be accepted.

You can find the Video-FX-Universe forum mentioned in the tutorial here: http://s7.invisionfree.com/Video_Fx_Universe/

EDIT: Forgot to mention a big thanks to Cheesewiz from CGTalk. He showed me the method used in this tutorial. The post can be found here: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=86&t=698431

So sorry for not mentioning you earlier!

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• fluids
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• mental
• ray
• animation
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[APriceProduction]

Could you write a similar tutorial for Lightwave 3D????

[coldsidedigital]

Sorry, but I'm not a Lightwave user. I'm not sure if its even possible in lightwave, but you should be able to take some of the concepts over into lightwave.

[paperfaith]

Brilliant stuff. Just beginning to touch maya, so this is quite advance for me. But anywho, great tutorial, hopefully i can do something cool with it after I get the hang of the basics.. (:

[coldsidedigital]

Hey thanks for the comment :) I suggest subscribing to my channel, as I will be doing many more Maya tutorials, as well as basics, in the future :)

[saebr]

Thank you very much, it was a great tutorial ... and u seem like one of those great guys who if asked for help u would just do a helpful tutorial to help (if u have the time)

i will surely check out ur tuts .. and ask for ur help.

Once again ... great tut.

Thanks

[TheIcemanModdeler]

U can take this even further and use a character that has been rigged and skinned, and set the character as a goal to achieve better morphing from liquid to a solid character.

[jhonbpmdeep]

tnks 4 tutorials u coverd a lot of things..tnka.. and i have a question: how to render amination based on audio,or driven by audio..what render settings i have to do? tnks again

[FMC19]

Where are the resources flies

it not on the link ?

[nisse123nisse123]

nice tutorial man!!! but a little to advanced for me..

i probably be able to do something like this when i am a bit more used to maya