Maya 2011 comes with a new option called “Export selected to Mudbox” To get this option working, you need to identify where is Mudbox installed on your machine and the location of the temp file that will be generated before launching Mudbox. Go to Windows > Setting and Preferences > Preferences  under Applications Located Mudbox.exe [...]

With the introduction of Qt in Maya 2011, it is now easy to modify the color / style of your interface. Example: create a shortcut for your Maya 2011 .exe RMB click and choose properties in the target filed, add -style <stylename> Style  examples “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\bin\maya.exe” -style plastique “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\bin\maya.exe” -style cde “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\bin\maya.exe” -style [...]

Once you launch Toxik it will take over the entire screen. You can adjust that by doing the following Create a shortcut on your desktop RMB click on it and choose properties Add “ –w” at the end of the Target filed (Note the extra space after the “) So it will be like this [...]

It appears there is some miscommunication between digital media and print shops. I often hear the term DPI and PPI used interchangeably, which is not true. Hopefully this small document will shed some light on these somewhat confusing terms. Maya will render out 72 PPI, NOT 72 DPI, there is a big difference as we [...]