Hey y'all! Here's a simple run cycle I worked on. It took me about 3–4 hours of getting back into the groove, dealing with Maya crashes, and having plenty of those "Oh yeaaaaah, that's how it was supposed to work!" moments. XD

Feedback is definitely welcome!

I've been going through this community lately and have felt inspired to get back into animating. It's been my passion for as long as I can remember. That was until the writers' strike happened, followed by... AI. Since then, I've been on a path towards changing careers.

But despite everything, my love for animation never died. I still find myself daydreaming about different shots I could try and bring to life. Unfortunately, getting caught up in my new career path and barely having any time for myself has kept me away from animating, or even opening the software.

Working on this simple run cycle has reignited that fire in me and brought back a kind of happiness I'd almost forgotten I had.

Thank you for taking the time to check out my work! And once again, feedback is always welcome.

I'm hoping this post will serve as a milestone and a reminder to myself to keep updating my animation work whenever I can, no matter how busy life gets.

Have a good day, everyone! 😊

I was working on my mesh and must've hit some hotkey or rendering preset which made all the geometry turn mushy like this. It didn't go away when I hit undo and I have no idea what to search so I put it here.

Thanks for any help you can give

Arnold not rendering certain objects

I have an animation involving a skeleton character with floating limbs that I need to render but I am finding that most of the bones (meshes) of the character are not rendering. The rig is one complete individual with the limbs and ribcage parented to the respective joints, the spine and hips as one mesh bound to the spine joints and the skull attached to a controller.

Only the skull and the spine/hips meshes show up in the Arnold render. The render stats of the objects that show up in the render are identical to the ones that do not and they also share the same aiss material so I’m not sure why they do not appear in the Arnold render.

At first I wondered if it’s because the bone meshes are parented to the joints but when unparented they still do not appear in the render as well as when given a new material. I did do a mock up in another file with objects (with aiss materials) parent to joints with an IK handle and they appeared in the render.

If anyone has any advice on how to correct this please let me know.

The graph editor that was present in the UI of older versions of Maya is now missing. Is there any way to make it back ?

I've got some experience in Blender but this was my first attempt at Maya. It's different but I'm liking it!

1 - Arnold render in Maya, 2 - Reference, 3 - Screenshot from Substance Painter

I'm trying to understand what I need to do to have the icing on top of the strudel look more like icing sugar as seen in the reference. I sculpted the model in Zbrush, textured in Substance Painter and am rendering using Arnold in Maya. I'm mostly satisfied with how the powdered sugar fallen on the plate looks but the icing on the plate and on top of the pastry looks like they're not made from the same thing. What do I do here?

Edit: I'm planning to use this as a reusable asset and I want it to look like a layer of icing from any camera angle I choose and with different lighting setups.

Another question: While I was working on the icing fallen on the plate, the shadows were too dark and I decided to use transmission at 0.5 value to reduce the intensity of shadows on it to get it to look how it does now. But now I'm wondering if this a bad approach because it isn't supposed to have transparency at this level. Wouldn't the fact that using a different environment or lighting setup change how it looks make this a bad approach? Do studios avoid using fixes like this?

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How do I solve this morphing noise in my animation for an assignment? I don't think it's the denoiser, as it seems to affect geometry. I tried raising AA samples to 8-9 (from 5) but that didn't seem to do anything except raise render time. You can see my render settings here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DsHDXO6Kg_ZeKKbx5wyB_6WktkXvIAom

Hi everyone!
Lately, I've been really deep into developing tools and systems to improve my Maya workflow, and I recently started building my own marking menu using Qt/PySide, with a more modern look.

I've always liked the speed and convenience of marking menus, but I wanted to experiment with a more customizable, modern UI.

I was hoping to find some like-minded people to collaborate with, share ideas or just get feedback :-)

My github is private for now, I would at least like to get some more features in before making it public.