Image info: learn all about Modeling, particle effects, texturing and animating a Mig fighter in an Intro course to Maya

TITLE: Introduction to Maya

Content Outline

• Project overview
• Intro to 3d and Interface basics
• Importing Images
• Starting the Model
• Intro of nurbs modeling*
• constructing the nose and fuselage and other other parts
• Intro to Polygon modeling and various tools*
• working with primitives
• Adding rotor to engine and using copy tool
• Finishing off modeling
• Q&A
  
  
• Texturing overview
• Intro to hypershade*
• Maya software shading
• Various shader model
• Shader network*
• UVs - brief discussion
• procedural textures
• Various projection techniques
• working with bump maps
• working with transparencies
• Painting textures in maya
• texturing the plane*
• Q&A
  
  
• Animation overview
• Intro to animation
• Basics of keyframe animation
  
• Intro to Path animation
• Using set driven keys
• Working with graph editor
• Animating the plane
• Q&A
  
  
• Dynamics overview
• Intro to particles
• Creating particle emitters
• Various particle attributes
• Creating a smoke trail
• Q&A
  
  
• Lighting and rendering overview
• Maya lights overview
• Maya shadows attributes
• Using image plane for environment
• Brief discussion on Image based lighting and HDR
• Matching light source and perspective
• Use background shader
• Overview of render tessellation
• batch rendering your animation
• viewing your animation
• Q&A
• conclusion

* discussion duration, depth of topic dependent on overall module duration.

Note: Module duration 6 days (7 hrs/day) . 3 days for 1st 2 subjects and 3 days for last 3 subjects. Modules can be split with minimum of 3 day training at a time.

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