Maya Animation Training Course

Maya Modelling
~ Creating primitive objects
~ Moving Objects in the 3D Space
~ Maya View Tools
~ Layouts, Saved Layouts
~ Channel Box and Manipulators
~ Grouping and Parenting
~ Spline Modeling

Rendering Overview
~ What is rendering
~ How Maya renders
~ Shader Networks
~ Shading Groups
~ Materials
~ Lights

Lighting
~Type of lights – usage of each, techniques for each

~ Light Linking
~ Light Fog
~ Intensity Curves

Shadows
~ Depth map

Motion Blur
Rendering Performance
~Selective Ray tracing
~Multithreaded tile – based batch renderer concepts
~Renderer

 General Animation
~ Powerful Keyframing Tools
~Keyframing
~First Cut, copy and paste of animated objects in the timeline
~Animation playblast for rapid review of complex scenes
~ Path Animation
~Animate an object along a curve or surface Edit path or other animation parameters during playback;
~ Set Driven Key
~ Establish Relationships where one action automatically drives another
~ Dope sheet
~  Rapid and intuitive global editing of keyframe timing
~Channel Box

Organic Modeling
~Rebuilding surfaces
~Editing Control Vertices (CV)
~ NURBS Boolean
~ Apply subtraction, intersect and union Operations across multiple NURBS surfaces
~ Round
~ Create rounded bevels of constant radius on any NURBS object
~ Surface Offset
~ Create new surfaces, offset from original specific value.
~ Working with trimmed or untrimmed surfaces
~ Enhanced Extrude

Maya Artisan
~ Artisan’s natural brush interface to interactivity sculpt and Paint attributes.

 Deformation Tools

~ Lattices
~ Sculpt Object
~ Wires

Dynamics
~ Rigid Body Dynamics
~ Realistic high speed simulation of multiple rigid objects

Software Particle Rendering

Hardware Rendering

Maya Paint Effects using 3D studio Paint
~ Powerful Painting Techniques
~ Create jungles of trees and plants
~  Flowing hair
~ Flickering flames
~ And many more
~ Paint Effects brushes
~ Natural Media Brushes
~ Effects Brushes
~ Brush Attributes
~ Rendering Paint Effects

Character Animation
~ Pose Based Characters
~ Skeletons and Inverse Kinematics (IK)
~ Skinning

Maya Cloth
~ Create any Fashion in any Fabric

~ Animate any Fabric object
~ Unique Solver
~ Integration with Maya

Maya Fur
~ Artisan User Interface
~ Using Artisan to paint fur
~ Using the Artisan brush to comb the hair
~ Multiple Fur Type
~ Using Multiple fur types
~ Assigning Attributes to fur
~ Applying Texture on the fur
~ Animating Fur
~ Fur Rendering