Maya Fundamentals Course
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If you need a high-end 3D graphics software package for 3D effects, animation, cinematics, or game graphics, check out Maya! Maya is widely used by visual effects and animation studios, and is growing increasingly popular with game developers. This Virtual Training Company tutorial introduces you to Maya's groundbreaking tools and features. Co-authors Chuck Grieb and Roger Dickes begin showing you the tool sets and helping you to understand the structure and organization of Maya. They will introduce you to the modeling, lighting, animation, and dynamic tools available in Maya. You will learn exciting features such as adding texture, digital sculpture, and much more. To get started, just click one of the movie topics below.
00:00:01,001 --> 00:00:11,000Welcome to VTC'S tutorial on Maya. Maya is one of the premier high-end 3d graphics software packages available today. Many of the premier visual effects studios and 3-D character animation studios use Maya as their 3d effects and animation tool. More and more Maya is being used also by the gaming companies for creating both cinematics and game graphics. In this tutorial, you will be introduced to the Maya tool set, develop an understanding of Maya structure in organization of data and learn you way around the Maya interface. The modeling, lighting, animation and dynamics tools will be introduced and reviewed. Launching the software is as simple as double clicking on the Maya icon on your desktop. Once Maya has launched, double click on the blue bar at the top to fill your screen with Maya. Maya has an extensive toolset - it is useful to try to make as much use of your screen as possible. If you have two monitors that it is terrific and if you do not have two monitors the largest monitor that you can afford is probably going to be the best tool that you will be able to use for viewing and working with Maya. Now that we've got Maya launched, let's get started with the tutorial. ed, let's get started with the tutorial.
- Course: Maya Fundamentals
- Author: Chuck Grieb
- SKU: 33402
- ISBN: 1932072136
- Work Files: No
- Captions: For Online University members only
- Subject: Animation & 3D
- The first 3 chapters of courses are available to play for FREE (first chapter only for QuickStart! and MasterClass! courses). Just click on the movie link to play a lesson.
