Maya For FX Artists – Projects Based Course

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Quick intro to Maya

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Quick Tour

Lecture 3: Downloadable resources

Lecture 4: Component Mode

Lecture 5: Parenting Objects

Lecture 6: Smoothing Objects in Maya

Lecture 7: Start Modeling a cup

Lecture 8: Finish Modeling the cup

Lecture 9: Your first Animation in Maya

Lecture 10: Quick Look at materials inside Maya

Lecture 11: Modeling a Pen

Chapter 2: Modeling

Lecture 1: Modeling Section resources

Lecture 2: Importing the images planes

Lecture 3: Modeling the body

Lecture 4: Creating the wood pieces

Lecture 5: Modeling the seal handles

Lecture 6: Modeling the seal

Lecture 7: Modeling the Paddles

Chapter 3: Arnold

Lecture 1: Downloadable resources

Lecture 2: Render viewer

Lecture 3: Samples

Lecture 4: Ray depth

Lecture 5: Gobo Effect

Lecture 6: Displacement

Lecture 7: Mixing Shaders

Lecture 8: ai Toon Shader

Lecture 9: Depth of Field

Chapter 4: Landscape

Lecture 1: Intro to landscape section

Lecture 2: Downloadable resources

Lecture 3: Creating the ground and setup the Camera

Lecture 4: Creating the Xgen description

Lecture 5: Adding the environment light

Lecture 6: Shading the grass part1

Lecture 7: Shading the grass part2

Lecture 8: Creating the plants and finish the scene

Chapter 5: Fluids

Lecture 1: Introduction to Fluids

Lecture 2: Downloadable Resources

Lecture 3: Cigarette smoke

Lecture 4: 3D Container

Lecture 5: Density Attributes

Lecture 6: Emitter types

Lecture 7: Turbulence and speed attributes

Lecture 8: Emit From Texture

Lecture 9: Homework

Lecture 10: Rocket Smoke

Lecture 11: Wheel Burnout Effect

Lecture 12: Torch Fire

Lecture 13: Emit fluid from particles

Lecture 14: Helicopter Landing Effect

Chapter 6: Rigid Bodies

Lecture 1: Downloadable Resources

Lecture 2: Creating rigid bodies

Lecture 3: Nail Constraint

Lecture 4: Pin and Spring constraint

Lecture 5: Hinge Constraint

Chapter 7: Fields and solvers

Lecture 1: Downloadable Resources

Lecture 2: Air Field

Lecture 3: Drag Field

Lecture 4: Newton and Radial Fields

Lecture 5: Turbulence and Curve Fields

Chapter 8: Intro to Maya particles

Lecture 1: Downloadable Resources

Lecture 2: Emitters

Lecture 3: Understanding emitter types in Maya

Lecture 4: Emitting from Object (Curve)

Lecture 5: Emitting from Object (Surface)

Lecture 6: particles Render Types (PDF)

Lecture 7: Soft Bodies

Lecture 8: Rain Effect

Lecture 9: Fill a Text with Particles.

Lecture 10: Water effect

Lecture 11: Dry sand

Lecture 12: Collision Layers

Chapter 9: Expressions

Lecture 1: Downloadable Resources

Lecture 2: Expression Editor

Lecture 3: Attributes

Lecture 4: Kill the particles based on their position.

Lecture 5: Coloring the particles based on the geometry index

Lecture 6: Killing the particles when they exit Force volume

Lecture 7: collision Self Component Id

Chapter 10: nCloth

Lecture 1: Downloadable Resources

Lecture 2: Creating simple cloth simulation

Lecture 3: Flag Simulation

Lecture 4: Pillow

Lecture 5: Simple Cloth simulation on animated Character

Lecture 6: Skirt and Tanktop simulation

Chapter 11: Bifrost

Lecture 1: Intro to Bifrost section

Lecture 2: Here you can download the files required for Bifrost section

Lecture 3: Filling a cup with water

Lecture 4: Cache the liquid and the mesh on Disk