Learn to create realistic models, texture, animate and render in Autodesk Maya from beginner level…
UPDATED TO MAYA 2018!
Explore the wonderful world of Autodesk Maya with this comprehensive introductory course. Maya is an industry standard 3d application used to create movies, games, and graphics. In this course, you will learn to create your own stunning imagery.
Learn the fundamentals of Autodesk Maya
Benefits of Learning Maya for Beginners
Maya is an industry standard application that is used by many high-end productions. By learning it you make yourself more employable. It has a flexible and wide toolset that can help you create high quality work quickly. This course is specifically designed to ease you into Maya, showing you the most common and powerful tools. It is a project-based course that will teach you practical skills that you can use in your own work. This course comes with all the project files you need and work in progress files in case you get stuck.
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Structure of this course
This course has five sections:
How to install Maya
Maya Fundamentals
In this section, you take your first look at Maya and the user interface. You will learn the different editors and the basics of creating objects and manipulating them
Toy Train Project
In this section, you will create a toy train model and animate it along with a path. You will learn how to light your train and apply materials to it. You will finish by rendering out your animation and view it.
Wizard Desktop Project
In this project, you will create a desktop scene that you can customize and make your own! Dive deeper into the modeling tools and create a series of objects to create your scene. You will learn about texturing your objects and look at various different shaders to make different materials. You will also learn some more advanced lighting techniques and learn how to add atmosphere to your scene and render out a final image. This project is flexible enough to let you be creative with your own composition, lighting and look.
Maya reference
I have created this section to cover additional tools and settings which are extremely useful.
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