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Duncan Brinsmead

Duncan’s Corner | Duncan Brinsmead

Duncan Brinsmead is a principal scientist with Autodesk. He is the creator of Maya Paint Effects, Maya Hair, Maya Toon, and also worked extensively on Maya Fluids and nCloth. Duncan holds an MA in Music Performance from Juilliard and enjoys playing piano as well as creating digital realizations of symphonic works in his spare time. The nuances and sensibilities from his musical background certainly find expression in all aspects of his work.

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Fractal Fantasy (1987)

I just noticed that someone uploaded to YouTube an old animation I did for Siggraph way back in 1987. It is nice for me to see, as my own copy (on tape) had degraded to the point it was virtually unviewable.

Posted: Jan 20, 2012
Category: Animation, Misc, Looking Back
Comments: 7
Views: 1901
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nCloth Chain

One can create chains with nCloth that are efficient to compute and capture natural chain behavior.

Posted: Aug 26, 2011
Category: Animation, nCloth
Comments: 15
Views: 8954
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Simplicity to Complexity

I have put together a talk on emergent phenomena in Maya for Siggraph that one can currently view on the area. here are some of the scene files and scripts mentioned in that talk.

Posted: Aug 14, 2011
Category: Autodesk Maya, Example…
Comments: 12
Views: 7275
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Mandel-Maya Madness!

Emergence is a fascinating phenomenon where complexity can emerge through iteration of simple rules or processes. One of the most dramatic illustrations of emergence is the Mandelbrot set where seemingly endless…

Posted: Aug 06, 2011
Category: Misc, MEL
Comments: 26
Views: 16010
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Waterfall using fluids and nParticles

With particle emission into a fluid in Maya2011 one can create natural looking large waterfalls.

Posted: Jun 21, 2010
Category: Autodesk Maya, Example…
Comments: 67
Views: 33657
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Maya Advanced Techniques Tutorials

There is a detailed tutorial available for the slagPourFoundry scene I included in my last post.

Posted: Jun 15, 2010
Category: Example scenes, nParticles,…
Comments: 8
Views: 16388