Introducing Autodesk Maya 2012

EBook Description: This book is the ideal primer to getting started with Maya, the premier 3D animation and effects software used in movies, visual effects, games, cartoons, short films, and commercials. You'll learn the Maya interface and the basics of modeling, texturing, animating, and visual effects. Professional visual effects artist and instructor Dariush Derakhshani explains the nuances of the complex software, while creative tutorials offer realistic, professional challenges for those new to 3D. You'll be up and running in no time with the world's most popular professional 3D software application.

In this course, we will rig a character for a game in Maya. We will cover techniques like setting up our joints to have a consistent orientation throughout the entire skeleton, we will build a twist rig to fix deformations that collapse in animation, we will learn how to create a foot rig with more banking control, and even cover creating a robust and flexible spine rig with advanced twisting. We will also discuss weight painting techniques that help to speed up that process, making it less intimidating and instead more of an enjoyable experience. By the end of this course you will learn rigging techniques that can be applied to any rig you build.

Utilizing Shading Networks in Maya 2011

Shading networks can be used in many different aspects of Maya including material and texture creation, lighting, special effects, and rigging just to name a few. Because these networks are widely used throughout Maya, this is one aspect of the application that nearly all Maya artists should be familiar with. This course will explore topics such as using various render nodes to create complex material and texture effects, building shading networks to simulate atmospheric effects, using shading networks for lighting purposes, and many other topics that will allow you to become a stronger, more efficient Maya artist.

Infinite Skills - Learning Maya 2012

Learn how to take your skills to the next level. This Learning Maya 2012 Tutorial Video is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional. The training uses broadcast quality audio and video to deliver concise and informative training right to your desktop. The training comes complete with practical working files and presented via an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, allowing you to learn at your own pace. These Learning Maya 2012 Tutorials make learning simple, quick and enjoyable. All Training Videos are authored by professional instructors who have a passion for teaching.

* Learn Maya 2012 from a professional trainer from your own desk.
* Suitable for beginners to advanced users. ideal for users who learn faster when shown.
* Visual training method, offering users increased retention and accelerated learning.
* Breaks even the most complex applications down into simplistic steps.

Maya Rendering Nodes Reference Library Assorted

In this collection of lessons we will learn about a wide variety of useful Hypershade rendering nodes. These lessons include using the Displacement node to create displacement-mapping effects, using the Layered Texture node to create complex multi-layered textures, using the Optical FX node to add realistic lens flares to Maya lights, using the different Switch Utility nodes in order to add realistic variation between many objects using the same shading network, plus several other useful Hypershade nodes.

Dover Studios Maya Surface Materials

This DVD provides an introduction to surface materials in Maya for animators, visual effects artists, and game developers. Visual effects artists, Andrew Hazelden & Russell Hazelden, share countless tips and techniques that will help you create realistic surface materials.

Kundalini Yoga with Maya Fiennes - A Journey Through The Chakras

This is an upgrade over the vast other small tears of this DVD set. Previous Rips I met had one or a combination of all these problems: bad / distorted video resolution, whistling feedback-ish rumors through the video, composite video formats, incomplete or partial collections of other shit. This package contains all seven routines in this series. Introductions to kundalini yoga, chakras and mantras are set aside as video files in the folder first instead of being combined with each of the seven sets, repeated again and again.

Learning Maya 2012

Learn how to take your skills to the next level. This Learning Maya 2012 Tutorial Video is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional. The training uses broadcast quality audio and video to deliver concise and informative training right to your desktop. The training comes complete with practical working files and presented via an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, allowing you to learn at your own pace. These Learning Maya 2012 Tutorials make learning simple, quick and enjoyable. All Training Videos are authored by professional instructors who have a passion for teaching.

Digital-tutors Render Passes in Maya 2009

Learn a production workflow to the completely updated Render Pass feature set in Maya 2009. Gain precise control over render outputs and learn time-saving techniques to optimizing the interoperability with Maya and compositing applications such as Toxik. Contains 2 hours of project-based training.

Exploring Animation in Maya 2011 Climbing A Wall

In this collection of lessons we will learn about a wide variety of animation techniques that are designed to improve your animation skill-set.

In this course we will build an animation of a character climbing over a wall from scratch, using techniques that can be implemented in any animation. Step by step, we'll create this climb while covering various techniques like: how to block in your extremes so that finalizing the animation becomes a faster process, strengthening poses to get a more entertaining outcome, and we'll also learn how to work smarter by utilizing Animation Layers to tweak pre-existing animation non-destructively, so that by the end of this course, you'll have the knowledgebase you need to create animations quickly and proficiently.

Modeling a Character for Rigging and Animation in Maya

When rigging and animating, it's always nice to have an appealing character to work with. However, if you don't have a lot of experience modeling, it can be difficult to create a character you will be happy animating. There are free characters and rigs out there, but many have been used over and over, and it would be nice to create something you can call your own. In this course we'll cover the building of a simple character, with emotive eyes and eyebrows that you can then rig and animate. We'll look at methods for building the head, body, arms, and legs and connecting them all together. We'll talk about building the topology with an eye towards rigging and animation - building it to deform well. The ultimate goal of this course is not to give you a new pre-built model to use, but rather to teach you to use the techniques shown to create your own custom character, ready to rig.

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