Snowflakes
During this project I created snowflakes in Maya and animated them to look like it was snowing. First I used the pin tool to create a design. Then I reflected it and rotated it six times to create a snowflake. I did that for each of the six snowflakes. Next I used the extrude tool so the snowflakes were not flat. Then I put color and texture on the snowflakes so they looked more realistic. I also used one of the Maya feature to soften the edges. Next I created a new file in Maya. I made a vertical plane and extruded the side create a frame. Then I added different textures and colors to make the wall, frame, and window pane. After that I created another Maya file with all the elements from both pervious files. I set up a camera and animated each individual snowflake so that it fell. Starting from above the frame, dropping and spinning all the way out of sight and the repeating. I had to stagger the times, sizes, and distances to give it the effect of real snowfall. After that ...