This tutorial covers the basics of how to setup and bake ambient occlusion maps in Maya8. The process is similar for previous versions of Maya only the menu names will be different. As with most things in Maya there are probably many different ways to do this but this method works well for me and is reasonably quick to setup.
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To animate a camera with a target and to render an animation Part 1- This tutorial shows how to remove the background of a picture, for example a character shot in front of a monochrome background. The scene is created using the following pictures. Please note that this tutorial presents simple texturing methods for students taking their first 3D class. Other types of texturing workflows will be covered in later classes.
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