This Maya tutorial shows how to create snowflakes using an nParticle volume emitter. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/Maya-2012-tutorials/Creating-Particle-and-Fire-Effects-with-Maya/83837-2.html?utm_medium=viral&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=videoupload-83837-0405
This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter four of the Migrating from Creating Particle and Fire Effects with Maya course presented by lynda.com author Aaron F. Ross. The complete Creating Particle and Fire Effects with Maya course has a total duration of 3 hours and 46 minutes, shows how to emit and render particles, write expressions to control and fine-tune effects, and animate and shade dynamic fluids
Creating Particle and Fire Effects with Maya table of contents:
Introduction
1. Particle Generation
2. Particles Emitting Particles
3. Rendering Particles
4. nParticle Instancer Basics
5. Dynamic Fluids
6. Fluid Animation and Shading
Conclusion
