Modeling a Character for Rigging and Animation in Maya

EBook Description: 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.

Learn a time-saving workflow to modeling motorcycles and production-ready techniques to hard surface modeling with design constraints, building complex machined and man-made parts, and methods of adding detail for realism. Contains over 8 hours of self-paced training for artists using Maya.

Maya Animation & compositing

Long time fxphd professor Matt Leonard dives into production with his new course covering work he did for Red Dwarf: Back to Earth. Leonard is our leadMaya professor, but he is also an adept compositor who uses tools such as Nuke and Fusion

For this course, he'll be walking through the entire productionprocess of his work on the show - from pre-production to on-set to the final composite. He'll cover all the angles of delivering great animation and a realisticcomposite in this hard core hands-on course.More details to come about the course once the mini-series airs in the UK the weekend of April 11th.

creating particle and fire effects with maya

In Creating Particle and Fire Effects with Maya, author Aaron F. Ross employs Maya particles and fluids to generate stunning special effects simulations, including exploding fireworks, tumbling snowflakes, and burning flames. Following a project-based approach, the course shows how to emit and render particles, write expressions to control and fine-tune effects, and animate and shade dynamic fluids. Tutorials on batch rendering and compositing in After Effects are also included. Exercise files accompany the course.

Exploring Animation Principles in Maya 2011

In this collection of lessons we will learn about the animation principle of Solid Drawing.
What is Solid Drawing? How can this 2D concept be implemented in 3D? Throughout this course, we will define Solid Drawing and work through a variety exercises to help explain it. By the end of this course, you will understand the meaning behind the principle of Solid Drawing, which will help you to polish your animations to attain believable movements throughout the actions of your character.

Modeling with Maya Escape Studios

As a successful and respected CG academy, Escape Studios is a proving ground for a new generation of computer graphics stars breaking into film, TV, games and commercials. Escape Studios is not like other schools. We don�t practice theoretical exercises. We skip the history lessons and focus on results. Our courses teach you one discipline, in-depth over a short time period.

Digital Tutors Professional Series Modeling Military Vehicles in Maya

In this course we will cover some production tips and concepts to think about when building CG military vehicles. This course was designed to help develop your workflows, and give you some concepts to keep in mind as you go through the process of modeling military vehicles. The objectives for this fast-pace, course include looking at several different workflows and techniques for modeling a military transport. We won't be going step by step through building a specific project, but rather talk in broad terms about some of the situations you will encounter and what options you have for dealing with those issues. Before we start, it is recommended that you have experience using Maya as we cover a lot of information in a shorter span of time. If youre an artist new to Maya the Beginner's Guide courses are a perfect place to start. there you can check out any of the intermediate step-by-step project based courses that will take you through the entire process.

Introduction Hypershade in Maya

This training product is designed for anyone who needs to learn about shading and surfacing, as well as using the Hypershade to work efficiently and easily in Maya. Taking you step by step and explaining how to use the Hypershade and how to create shader networks in terminology anyone can understand, this training product covers many aspects of working on materials and shaders with in-depth lessons that cover both basic principles and fundamentals, as well as production workflows and methods of trouble shooting issues that can appear during an actual production.

Maya Modeling Reference Library Normals

In this series of lessons, we will be taking a detailed look at each of the commands found in Maya's Normals menu. Each video in this course is a self-contained lesson centering on one of the commands found in the Normals menu in Maya. This means that these lessons can be viewed in any order you wish, allowing you to jump straight to the content that is most relevant to you. Over the course of these lessons, we'll take a detailed look at each of the Normals commands and how each of them can be used to speed up our workflow.

Digital Tutors Maya Modeling Reference Library Normals

In this series of lessons, we will be taking a detailed look at each of the commands found in Maya's Normals menu. Each video in this course is a self-contained lesson centering on one of the commands found in the Normals menu in Maya. This means that these lessons can be viewed in any order you wish, allowing you to jump straight to the content that is most relevant to you. Over the course of these lessons, we'll take a detailed look at each of the Normals commands and how each of them can be used to speed up our workflow.

Character Creation in Maya

Game Character Creation in Maya is a thorough overview of techniques for creating characters for video games or real-time rendered applications. Chris Reilly's course covers low-poly modeling, texturing and animation, using 3D model and texture assets created in Maya and Adobe Photoshop. The course also includes an overview of Unity 3, including importing characters and making interactive animations with the Script Editor. Exercise files accompany the course.

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