Falling Dice in Maya - Rigid Bodies Tutorial

Falling Dice - FX tutorials in Maya

In this short beginners' tutorial in Maya, students learn how to animate dice falling and bouncing onto a hard surface.  

The tutorial uses Active and Passive Rigid Bodies in Autodesk Maya, and shows how physics can be used to speed up the animation process.  

This tutorial is part of our FX tutorials in Maya - which you can find at our Vimeo Tutorial Channel, available for all our students (and recent Escapees) at Escape Studios.

Houdini Tutorials at Our Vimeo Channel

Escape Studios Vimeo Tutorial Channel supports our students with online resources for their studies, including an extensive playlist in Houdini.

The Vimeo Tutorial Channel is a hub for our animation and VFX video tutorials, making it easy for our students to find tutorials to support their classroom studies.  

FX TD Timothy Stam Visits Escape Studios

FX TD Timothy Stam

Yesterday we held our latest "Evening With..." event, this time with Timothy Stam, Houdini FX TD at Goodbye Kansas Studios in London.

Animation with Houdini is a growing part of the business, especially for FX work, such as explosions, simulations and dynamics. Think water and fire effects, and giant cityscapes - this sort of work is increasingly done in Houdini, rather than Maya.

A few studios are even using Houdini for keyframe animation, though Maya remains the dominant software package, with a huge user base.