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Commonly used tools: Paint effects

Commonly used tools: Paint effects - Maya Tutorial

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Commonly used tools: Paint effects

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- Paint effects are a great way to populate your animation. They allow you to paint 3D objects and particles into your scene. If you open up your exercise file you'll see that this tool can be used for structures such as villi. And they can also work really well for applying tentacles to your structures. To create these, make sure you're in the modeling menu and then go to generate and click get brush. This will open up the content browswer. There's a large library of paint effects for you to choose from. These all come with a lot of different settings that you can play with to modify each of them. We're going to go down to the underwater and then select tube reeds. Close down the content browser. And then you can directly paint these onto your scene. What we want to do is alter the appearance of this so it looks more like what's in the background. So with the stroke selected we want to go to tube reeds. You can adjust the brush width so that it's more closely following this curve…

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