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Maya Stereoscopic Cameras

This post provides an in-depth discussion and review of stereoscopic cameras. We will focus specifically on Autodesk® Maya® software representations and how technical artists and programmers can take advantage of the core architecture to bring stereoscopic to their next production. This document will be very technical in focus and provides code samples, scripts, and high level mathematics for various components of the S3D pipeline. For those who do not have a programming background, code samples will be offset in separate... Read more →

An introduction to Maya Camera Model

This post is an introduction to the Maya Camera Model which is a preamble to an in-depth discussion and review of stereoscopic cameras. The Maya Camera Model Virtual cameras have been around since the beginning of computer graphics (CG). They are an essential aspect to the creation of the imagery that is seen today and the math mimics the basic principles of real-world cameras. They are the first step to bringing the director’s vision to life. Like real-world cameras, virtual... Read more →

Mudbox compiler versions

Lots of talk about Maya recently, but to reflect my post on compiler versions for Maya, here is a list of the various OS and compiler you would need to build plug-ins on Mudbox. Note that Mudbox plug-ins are C++ only compared to Maya. But Mudbox uses CG and Qt a lot, so most of the time you would need to support those too. OpenGL is also an option. Visual Studio Express compiler is not officially supported, but less the... Read more →