{"id":776,"date":"2012-07-17T02:02:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T02:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2018-10-06T04:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T04:19:37","slug":"maya-export-position-and-normal-pass-to-pixel-cloud-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Maya Export Position and Normal Pass to Pixel Cloud Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVE9y9y24Fw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">\nHey guys, this tutorial is a brief overview on how to use Maya to quickly create a position pass and normal pass to be used with the <a title=\"Introducing Pixel Cloud!\" href=\"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?p=750\">Pixel Cloud<\/a> plugin for After Effects. The process is pretty much the same as in my previous tutorials but this is dedicated to exporting the passes from Maya and the adjustments necessary after importing into After Effects.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">\nOn a side note, I&#8217;ve started setting up a <a title=\"Q&amp;A Forums\" href=\"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?forum=pixel-cloud\">Forum <\/a>for any questions regarding Pixel Cloud, Scripts and even just general graphics talk! If you have any technical questions please feel free to post here and for my customers feel free to email me at support@blurrypixel.com I&#8217;ll get back to you! The <a title=\"Q&amp;A Forums\" href=\"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?forum=pixel-cloud\">forum <\/a>is still in the beta stages but feel free to start using it!\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">\n<div><div style=\"padding-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;\">Share this post!<\/div><div class=simplesocial><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?p=776\" data-text=\"Maya+Export+Position+and+Normal+Pass+to+Pixel+Cloud+Tutorial\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div><div class=simplesocial><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fblurrypixel.com%2F%3Fp%3D776&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,500,400)\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_32\/facebook.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblurrypixel.com%2F%3Fp%3D776&t=Maya+Export+Position+and+Normal+Pass+to+Pixel+Cloud+Tutorial\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,435,500)\" title=\"Email a Friend\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_32\/email.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freetellafriend.com\/tell\/?heading=Share+This+Article&bg=1&option=email&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblurrypixel.com%2F%3Fp%3D776\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,700,500)\" title=\"Share on Reddit\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_32\/reddit.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblurrypixel.com%2F%3Fp%3D776&title=Maya+Export+Position+and+Normal+Pass+to+Pixel+Cloud+Tutorial\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial title=\"RSS Feed\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_32\/rss.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/?feed=rss2\"><\/a><\/div><div style=\"clear:both;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys, this tutorial is a brief overview on how to use Maya to quickly create a position pass and normal pass to be used with the Pixel Cloud plugin for After Effects. The process is pretty much the same as in my previous tutorials but this is dedicated to exporting the passes from Maya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9,37],"tags":[74,29,28,34,33,13,32,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blurrypixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}