Maya For Beginning Animators

Maya For Beginning Animators, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 17 lectures, based on 11 reviews, and has 96 subscribers.

You will learn about Basic Modeling, Texturing, Rigging, and Lighting Concepts Keyframe Animation This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginners It is particularly useful for Beginners.

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Summary

Title: Maya For Beginning Animators

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 17

Number of Published Lectures: 17

Number of Curriculum Items: 17

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 17

Original Price: $109.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Basic Modeling, Texturing, Rigging, and Lighting Concepts
Keyframe Animation

Who Should Attend

Beginners

Target Audiences

Beginners

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If you’ve ever wanted to learn Autodesk Maya but wasn’t sure where to start – this course is the answer.

Taught by a former professional animator with over 10+ years of industry experience, you will learn how to create your own 3D project from scratch.

We will cover a wide range of topics including:

Setting up Maya’s workspace and preferences
Modeling a robot arm using primitive objects
Using soft selection to modify geometry
Renaming objects in the outliner
Pivot points
Freezing transformations
Parent/child relationships
Locking attributes
Changing the materials on objects
Setting up and using a camera
Planning an animation
Giving inanimate objects personality
Setting keys
Essential animation shortcuts
Understanding the graph editor
Avoiding floaty animation
Basic constraints
How to block / refine / and polish an animation
3 point lighting setup
Exporting (playblasting) your animation

While the emphasis of this course is on animation, you will also learn foundational modeling, texturing, rigging, and lighting concepts that build on each other. In the end, you will learn to harness your creativity to create a final animated scene you can be proud of!

*Students are encouraged to take the knowledge they gain from this course and create an entirely original scene using basic primitives.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started With Maya

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Workspace

Lecture 3: Setting Your Preferences

Lecture 4: Maya Basics

Chapter 2: Creating Our Scene

Lecture 1: Modeling a Robot Arm Using Basic Primitives

Lecture 2: Adding Props And A Ground To Our Scene

Chapter 3: Prepping For Animation

Lecture 1: Renaming Objects In The Outliner

Lecture 2: Pivot Points

Lecture 3: Rigging The Robot Arm

Lecture 4: Locking Attributes

Lecture 5: Assigning Materials

Lecture 6: Creating a Camera

Chapter 4: Animating In Maya

Lecture 1: Introduction To Animation

Lecture 2: Animating The Ball

Lecture 3: Animating The Robot Arm – Blocking

Lecture 4: Animating The Robot Arm – Refining and Polishing

Chapter 5: Presenting Your Work

Lecture 1: Lighting and Playblasting

Instructors

Paul McGrade
Animator

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