Digital Tutors - Creating and Integrating Weather Elements in Maya

Duration 2h 3m Project Files Included MP4

Throughout this Maya tutorial we'll create dynamic weather effect from start to finish. Starting with a piece of live action footage, we'll create a match move camera, then we'll set up rain and blowing leaves using Maya nParticles. We'll finish by rendering our simulations out in V-Ray and composite them over our footage in NUKE.

After completing this Maya training, you'll have created your own dynamic weather elements, that'll help you effectively change the look and feel of your own videos.

1. Introduction and project overview

2. Tracking footage in PFTrack

3. Preparing our 3D scene for dynamics

4. Creating our rain simulation

5. Modeling leaves and setting up an instancer

6. Refining our nParticle simulations

7. Preparing our simulation for rendering

8. Adding color variation to our leaves

9. Creating a shader for our rain particles

10. Lighting our environment

11. Adjusting the settings on our render

12. Compositing our renders in NUKE

13. Refining our leaf simulations

14. Reviewing our final results