Duration 7h Project Files Included MP4

Title: Motion Design School – Maya Modeling Essentials

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What is this course about?

Modeling is an essential part of the 3D industry. You can not imagine any animated movie or video game without 3D models. Characters, props, environment, almost every idea needs to be represented as a 3D model either fully or partially. 3D is a versatile tool that will come in handy for any contemporary artist. But where to start? It`s much better to begin your 3D artist’s journey from tweaking some polygons and getting knowledge about 3D in a nutshell. In this course you will start from creating a simple model of a longboard in Maya and then learn how to texture it in Substance Painter right away. After that, we’ll show you the ropes on a simple example. There is a real challenge for you: you will need to create full a 3D hard surface character from our animated movie that we’ve made for this course!

The course is designed to effectively introduce you to the basic stages of working with 3D modelling, even if you have never done this before.

Section #1

Intro

Interface navigation and standard Maya tools.

Section #2

Modeling Basics

Maya basic modeling tools.

Learning the polygonal modeling process on the examples of simple objects.

Section #3

Hardsurface Modeling

Creating a longboard model. Mastering creating the correct topology.

creating a basic object form;

objects grouping;

adding details to a grid for smoothing;

creating the final geometry.

Section #4

UV Unwrap

Creating a UV map of a model in Maya. Preparing a model for texturing.

Section #5

Texturing

Creating textures. Basic rendering in Substance Painter.

Section #6

Introduction to advanced modeling

creating the base concept, development of the idea;

pre-modeling preparation;

preparation of references;

working out the masses and proportions.

Section #7

Increasing the geometry detailing

work with deformers;

Boolean operations. Pros and cons;

work with KitBash;

creating a simple animation for checking the model functionality.

Section #8

Mesh modeling using clones

What mesh is and how to use it for modeling covered on the example of the robot’s spine and eyes.

Finishing up the scene.

Section #9

Preparing UV for the final model

Subdivision of geometry into logical groups;

Creating UVs;

UV packing using UDIM.

Section #10

Introduction to Substance Painter

Key aspects of texturing for PBR shading;

Textures baking;

Texturing methods of complex objects.

Section #11

Preparing the scene for presentation

camera and animation;

creating an expressive pose;

final shaders setup;

color and light as a composition method;

introduction to Arnold renderer.