Thursday, May 21, 2009

Applying an image texture in Maya

Some of the animators wanted to know how to do this, so here is one way to apply an image texture simply but effectively in Maya. It is based on this video tutorial from Swinburne University in Victoria. Thanks to Will for finding the tutorials on the Internet.

Golden Rule: Don't let modelling and texturing eat away at your animating time.




Some of the animators in the studio were interested in how to apply an image texture to a polygon shape.






The second in a series of three parts to the process.






Third and final part to this three part series of short Maya texturing video tutorials.

What the label looks like in the UV texture editor when the cylinder is selected in object mode

1 comment:

Jac said...

Thanx Frank! This was very helpfull and really easy to follow.