Mountains in maya

[Radiate]

does anyone know how to create mountains in maya, textures and everything?

[ctbullet]

whats maya?

[Radiate]

Alias Maya...an animation piece of software, and sorry, when I say mountains, I mean like how they made the pelanor fields in the Lord of the Rings, with the big cg dome. And also I wanted to know how you could replace someone's green screened legs and put in something else ( animal legs, centaurs, stuff like that.) Thanks, help much appreciated!

[wildstorm]

Alias Maya...an animation piece of software, and sorry, when I say mountains, I mean like how they made the pelanor fields in the Lord of the Rings, with the big cg dome. And also I wanted to know how you could replace someone's green screened legs and put in something else ( animal legs, centaurs, stuff like that.) Thanks, help much appreciated!

To do a centuar effect, you would need to film your talent infront of the blue screen. from the waist down, the talent needs to wear a horses bust. Have the talent act out the movement of say, walking for instance. Now the next thing you do is get a horse and film the horses movement of walking on location. Bring both footage into a compositing software like Adobe Aftereffects. Key out the blue and align the actor with the horse. You'll have to keyframe animate the talent with the horse in order for the talent to look like he's part of the horse. Thats how they did it on Hercules the Legendary Journeys. As for replacing green legs with animal legs, all you need to do is find 3D animal legs. Import your footage into Maya. Import the 3D Legs also and position the animal legs on where the green screen legs are. So for instance, if you have your talent walking, move the animation slider until the green screen legs start to move. After say, 10 frames, reposition the animal legs to line up with the greenscreen legs and so on and so forth. As for creating landscapes or mountains in Maya, I have no idea. I suggest you check out e-on softwares Vue 5 Infinite:

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vu ... _infinite/

And check out their presentation video. I think you will be impressed with what you can do with the software.