Intro to Maya's Bifrost for Complete Beginners - PART 01

We are very lucky as the famous Maya Guy has made an awesome Intro to Bifrost for complete beginners tutorial. Bifrost is free and a VFX system built into Maya already. It's incredibly powerful, and Phil will walk you through it from the very start.

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Maya Guy will walk us through setting it up, and the must-know basic fundamentals of instancing anything in your scene. You'll be surprised at the massive polygon count Bifrost can handle compared to something like Maya's native nParticles.

In the lesson we have used a basic biped walk and jogging cycle imported as alembic caches. But you can use anything! simple geometry, full characters, text for motion design etc.

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0:00 - Intro
00:20 - Meet Maya Guy
00:49 - Setup
01:50 - First steps
03:58 - Plane emitter
04:34 - Instancing
06:12 - Scattering
09:56 - Multiple Instances
10:37 - Randomizing
15:06 - Multiple emitters
17:42 - Transform
21:44 - Class Creatives
23:13 - Backdrops
24:49 - Compounds
30:20 - Materials
33:37 - Curve emitter
37:09 - What's next?
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[justsaraki]

This is... I have no words. So we can use bifrost to simulate crowd?? I didn't bifrost was so useful, my school didn't say a word about it.

[SurferXGhost]

How can I keep the characters on the plane and loopthe animation? appearing at the beginning of the path and disappearing at the end !

[SurferXGhost]

I want new characters appearing over the plane and keep the animation like a infinite cycle! How can I do that ? ... Thanks!!!

[asddwd]

hi, pls help me How I edited in bifrost the existing USD Arnold shaders? ex: i dont want give a new arnold shader .i want edit the exported arnold shaders wich is inside in USD ..thx

[Tertion]

Step 1 : get frustrated
Step 2 : switch to Blender or Oudini for that kind of stuff