Top Tips for improving you UVs from Flipped Normals

From Maya 2016 to 2018 Autodesk has spent a lot of time improving the UV tools in Maya, most notably the 2017 addition of the UV toolkit 

The Guys from Flipped Normals show off some of their favorite UV tools in Maya

• setting and matching texel density
• straightening uvs and shells
• improvements to cut and sew (turn distance to 0 ) 
• shift+click to edit tool preferences in the UV toolKit 
• brush style "Sew" tool 
• auto-seams feature !! 

Connected workflows: Maya Mudbox & Arnold : Zombie

Zombie - connected workflows for character creation from Autodesk Media and Entertainment on Vimeo.

Maya Ideas on the area

  Small annoying things is dead.... Long live Maya Ideas.

 Autodesk has moved it's small annoying things, bug posts, and ideas all to one place under the Maya Forums on the area.

  Like before you can post ideas and vote on them, but you are no longer limited to the number of votes. 


https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-ideas/idb-p/968

Maya 2018 . 3 now available

Looks like a bunch of performance updates:



link to what' new:
http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2018/ENU/?guid=GUID-0975B1CE-71E8-4889-810A-D27AF6B97414

Wednesday April 25th Ziva Dynamics Meet-up at SVA

 Come check out the latest in Muscle Rigs and simulation from the team at Ziva 
Dynamics. 

 Ziva creates some of the most amazing muscle and character dynamics plug-ins for Maya available for Studios and Indie Creators.  Ziva VFX for dynamics, Ziva anatomy for simulation ready characters, and Ziva character platform for procedural interactive character tools.  

https://zivadynamics.com/

6:30 to 8:30 

133 W21st Street 

Room 301C 

Refreshments provided as well

  be sure to RSVP on the facebook  invite. 
http://nymayausersgroup.blogspot.com/2018/04/wednesday-april-25th-ziva-dynamics-meet.html

or email at : nycmayausersgroup@gmail.com

PSYOP JBL chameleon

Not only is this a great spot from Psyop, but the tech they added to create the look of the chameleon is amazing..  
 Unfortunately there are no credits to the artists. so I'm not sure if it was NY or LA or ..  but I'm gonna guess not NY ..
 (update!) 
 Just heard from one of the animators on the job,  So it was done in NYC!

Lead Animator: Pat Porter
animators: Doug Rappin & Chris Meek 
Rigging TD: Lukas Wadya



JBL "Chameleon" from Psyop on Vimeo.

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JBL "The Making-Of Chameleon" from Psyop on Vimeo.

introducing Arnold 5.1

Arnold 5.1 !

• two new denoisers 
• integraded NVIDIA OptiX Denoiser
• standalone "Noice" denoiser
• adaptive sampling
• advanced toon shader
• operators for material overrides
• native Alembic procedurals!
• ... and more 

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and Arnold GPU rendering...