Lynda - Maya 2015 Essential Training | 2.37GB

Duration: 7h 46m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 30fps | Audio: AAC 44.1KHz 1ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner Intermediate Advanced Appropriate for all | Language: English

Need to get a strong foundation in Maya? Start here. This Essential Training course covers all the latest features in Maya 2015, while giving you a background in the basics of 3D modeling, texturing, animating, and rendering. Need a quick overview? Check out the first chapter of the course, which covers the interface and basic object manipulation tools. Author George Maestri then takes you deeper into polygonal modeling, editing and refining meshes, and NURBS modeling—for sculpting curves and organic surfaces in Maya. After that, learn how to create and apply materials to give the surface of your models color, texture, reflectivity, and more. Next, create realistic images (with lighting and depth-of-field effects) in the final rendering process, and finally, add movement and life to your characters with Maya's animation tools.

Topics include:

* Getting familiar with the Maya interface

* Creating hierarchies and layers

* Creating polygonal objects

* Working with subdivision surfaces

* Extruding a mesh

* Smoothing geometry

* Lofting and extruding with the NURBS curves tools

* Converting NURBS to polygons

* Creating and applying texture maps

* Applying UV mapping

* Adding lights and cameras to a scene

* Creating realistic effects such as depth of field

* Batch rendering

* Animating in Maya