Maya 2018 VFX – Learn to create Visual effects using Maya

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Overview of this course

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: How to install the software required for this course

Lecture 1: How to install Matchmover on PC

Lecture 2: How to install Matchmover on a Mac

Chapter 3: Matchmoving

Lecture 1: Introduction to Matchmoving

Lecture 2: How to convert your movie file into an image sequence for Matchmover and Maya

Lecture 3: IMPORTANT for PC users using Matchmover

Lecture 4: Introduction to Matchmover auto track

Lecture 5: How to check if you have a good track

Lecture 6: How to improve the solve

Lecture 7: Orient the scene and export to Maya

Lecture 8: Setup and test Maya scene

Lecture 9: Reconstruct the ground

Chapter 4: Create the Spaceship

Lecture 1: Spaceship Modelling – Blocking out the shapes

Lecture 2: Spaceship Modelling – Blocking out the body shape

Lecture 3: Spaceship Modelling – Add details to guns

Lecture 4: Spaceship Modelling – Add detail to the cockpit

Lecture 5: Spaceship Modelling – Add detail to the engine

Lecture 6: Spaceship Modelling – Add detail to the engine flaps

Lecture 7: Spaceship Modelling – Add detail to the front of the spaceship

Lecture 8: Spaceship Modelling – Add detail to the wings

Lecture 9: Spaceship Modelling – Add details to the body

Lecture 10: Spaceship Modelling – Clean up

Chapter 5: UV unwrap the Spaceship

Lecture 1: UV unwrap the cockpit

Lecture 2: UV unwrap the body

Lecture 3: UV unwrap the nose

Lecture 4: UV unwrap the laser

Lecture 5: UV unwrap the engine

Lecture 6: Layout UVs

Chapter 6: Layout the crash

Lecture 1: Layout the spaceship crash

Lecture 2: Camera map the ground

Lecture 3: Extend the ground reconstruction

Lecture 4: Sculpt the ground geometry

Lecture 5: Create damage to the ship

Chapter 7: Lighting

Lecture 1: Setup lighting

Chapter 8: Look Development

Lecture 1: Look Development – Base dirt

Lecture 2: Look Development – Using the curvature node

Lecture 3: Look Development – Base texture

Lecture 4: Look Development – Assign shaders

Lecture 5: Look Development – Paint body texture

Lecture 6: Look Development – Add paint map and scratches

Lecture 7: Look Development – Paint engines

Lecture 8: Look Development – Paint lasers

Lecture 9: Look Development – Ground shader

Lecture 10: Look Development – Ground texture

Lecture 11: Look Development – Adjust ship position

Lecture 12: Look Development – Add sand texture layer

Lecture 13: Look Development – Cockpit texture

Lecture 14: Look Development – Specular

Chapter 9: Fluid Smoke Simulation

Lecture 1: Maya fluids – Containers

Lecture 2: Maya fluids – Emitters

Lecture 3: Maya fluids – Fields

Lecture 4: Maya fluids – Workflow

Lecture 5: Maya fluids – Texturing

Lecture 6: Maya fluids – Start smoke simulation

Lecture 7: Maya fluids – Dynamic attributes

Lecture 8: Maya fluids – Noise texture

Lecture 9: Maya fluids – Cache the simulation

Lecture 10: Maya fluids – Export the fluid simulation

Chapter 10: Create a Render Layer setup and render a test frame

Lecture 1: Import fluid simulation

Lecture 2: Create AOVs

Lecture 3: Render setup

Lecture 4: Fix ground render layer

Chapter 11: Compositing the test frame

Lecture 1: Nuke – Basics

Lecture 2: Nuke – Layering with the Merge node

Lecture 3: Nuke – Composite the ship AOVs

Lecture 4: Nuke – Adjust the final look

Chapter 12: Final adjustments to the scene and render settings

Lecture 1: Final tweaks to shaders and ground

Lecture 2: Setup final render and custom ID pass

Chapter 13: Composite the final render

Lecture 1: Start compositing and add a glint in Nuke

Lecture 2: Output the finished composite