TERM DATES: Jan 3, 2021 - Mar 20, 2021
COURSE PREREQUISITES: None
Introduction to Maya
$600
We will work out the class times between the instructor and the students.
Learn the basics of Maya: the Maya interface, working with objects, modeling basics, how to animate objects, apply textures, and use lights and cameras to render your scene.
1 - Navigation, Menus, Shelves, Importing scripts, Marking Menus, Viewport
2 - Animation : Camera, Staging, FPS, Heads Up Display, Locking Attributes
3 - Animation : Using controllers, Showing Hiding Controls, Setting Keys
4 - Animation : Opening a scene, setting up a scene, referencing a character
5 - Animation : Installing and using a picker, Playblast
6 - Modeling : Creating Primitives, adjusting the settings on primitives via channel box, attribute editor, scaling, translating rotating
7 - Modeling : Contstraints, Deformer (Bend, Lattice)
8 - Modeling : Applying shaders, node editor
9 - Modeling : Lights, Render Settings
10 - Rigging : Bind Skin, Paint Weights
11 - Final Review : One on One