Learning Autodesk® Maya® 2013

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Hello!

Lecture 1: What Is Maya?

Lecture 2: How to Use the Project Files

Chapter 2: Introducing Maya

Lecture 1: The Nickel Tour: User Interface Layout

Lecture 2: Getting Around in Maya

Lecture 3: Maya Objects and Hierarchy

Lecture 4: Exposing Maya Windows

Lecture 5: Customizing Maya

Chapter 3: Polygonal Modeling

Lecture 1: Vertices, Edges, and Faces

Lecture 2: Creating Polygon Primitives

Lecture 3: Tool Settings

Lecture 4: Basic Modeling Operations: Dividing Geometry

Lecture 5: Basic Modeling Operations: Extending Geometry

Lecture 6: Modeling with Multiple Objects

Chapter 4: Subdivision Surface Modeling

Lecture 1: SubD Primitives in Maya

Lecture 2: Improving on Maya's Native SubDs

Lecture 3: Creating Hard Surfaces with SubDs

Lecture 4: SubDs at Render Time

Lecture 5: SubDs in mental ray

Chapter 5: NURBS Modeling

Lecture 1: Introduction to NURBS

Lecture 2: NURBS Primitives

Lecture 3: NURBS Modeling: Revolve and Loft

Lecture 4: NURBS Modeling: Extrude and Birail

Chapter 6: Basic Maya Shading

Lecture 1: Intro and Hypershade Shakedown

Lecture 2: Basic Shaders: The Anisotropic, Ramp, and Surface Shaders

Lecture 3: Texture Nodes and Bump Maps

Lecture 4: Shading Networks

Lecture 5: Using the Substance Texture

Lecture 6: Introducing UV Mapping

Lecture 7: Working with UVs and UV Snapshots

Lecture 8: 6.8 video

Chapter 7: Basic Maya Lighting

Lecture 1: Three-Point Lighting

Lecture 2: Maya Lights Overview

Lecture 3: Manipulating and Animating Lights

Lecture 4: Rendering Shadows

Lecture 5: Light Linking

Lecture 6: Basic Lighting Effects

Chapter 8: Basic Maya Rendering

Lecture 1: Creating and Manipulating Cameras

Lecture 2: Outputting Renders

Lecture 3: Render Settings: Quality and Motion Blur

Lecture 4: IPR Rendering

Lecture 5: Raytracing: Reflections, Refractions, and Shadows

Lecture 6: Controlling Object Render Stats

Lecture 7: Batch Rendering a Sequence

Lecture 8: Rendering in Layers

Lecture 9: Compositing Render Layers and Creating a Shadow Pass

Chapter 9: Basic Animation

Lecture 1: The Basics of Animating in 3D

Lecture 2: Keyframe Basics

Lecture 3: The Graph Editor

Lecture 4: Creating Skeletons and Constraints

Lecture 5: Using Set Driven Key

Lecture 6: The Connection Editor

Lecture 7: The Expression Editor

Lecture 8: Skin Binding

Chapter 10: Mental Ray Shading and Lighting

Lecture 1: Introducing mental ray

Lecture 2: Mental Ray Area Light and Decay Rates

Lecture 3: The Mia and Car Paint Shaders

Lecture 4: Using the Physical Sun and Sky System

Chapter 11: Indirect Lighting with mental ray

Lecture 1: Important mental ray Render Settings

Lecture 2: Introducing Final Gather

Lecture 3: Controlling Final Gather

Lecture 4: HDRI Fundamentals

Lecture 5: Using an HDRI with mental ray (Part 1)

Lecture 6: Using an HDRI with mental ray (Part 2)