In this course, you will get familiar with Autodesk Maya — an industry-standard 3D software heavily used in film, TV, and gaming industries. It offers artists robust features for modeling and the simulation of natural elements like sandstorms or explosions.
The internet is filled with countless Maya tutorials, but many of them lack structure and overwhelm beginners with excessive details.
We simplify Maya for you, laying a firm foundation for your future as a 3D Artist. Our unique approach combines engaging activities, including video game-inspired quests, making the learning process not just comprehensive, but also enjoyable.
Industry standard
Maya is the industry's choice, heavily used across game development, film, and animation industries.
Powerful Features
Maya comes with an extensive toolset for modeling, animation, rigging, simulation, rendering, and compositing.
Professional Community
Maya's large, active community of professional 3D artists is an excellent place to exchange ideas, share resources, and seek guidance.
Continuous Support
Autodesk regularly updates Maya and dictates industry trends, ensuring you always stay ahead with the latest features and tools.
This introductory course is the perfect stepping stone toward a career as a 3D Artist. We will guide you through the creation of simple models in Maya and prepare you for more complex 3D courses to speed up your professional development.
Be proficient with the Maya interface and hotkeys
Understand how to manipulate geometry
Have a solid grasp of essential technology
Learn the ropes of adjusting lighting and rendering
Create your first 3D model — a microphone
Experienced team manager in the video games industry with a deep interest in people management, problem-solving and continuous improvement of both productivity and quality.
Beginners eager to learn 3D graphics
Aspiring 3D artists looking to expand their software skills
Individuals planning to take our advanced 3D courses
Anyone curious about 3D graphics and seeking an introduction
We will study Maya step by step, and create a portfolio-ready 3D model along the way.
Introduction to Maya: Purpose and key features
Exploring the user interface and navigation
Personalizing workspace and hotkeys tutorial
Creating objects, manipulating pivot points, moving, rotating, scaling
Organizing your scene using layers, groups, and parent-child hierarchy
Practice: Assemble a scene with pre-made objects
Introduction to Primitives and Components
Poly modeling: Manipulating faces, edges, and vertices
Understanding shading and normals
Using different reference planes
Tutorial on the modeling toolbox and its hotkeys
Practice: Model an asset
Get to know UV mapping
UV mapping projections: Planar, Cylindrical, Automatic
Techniques for cutting and sewing UV edges
Exploring the UV toolbox and understanding Texel Density
Practice: Create a UV map for your model
Learning materials types and their properties
Create and edit materials using the Attribute editor
Applying textures to materials
Websites to find free textures
Practice: Add materials and textures to your model
Introduction to the animation timeline, keyframes, and rigs
Rigging and building animations: Working with joints, skeletons, skinning, inverse kinematics, and control objects
Utilizing Disney animation principles in the graph editor
Practice: Animate your model
How to create and use various types of light
Difference between interior, exterior, and studio lighting
Practice: Add light to your scene
Learning to create and set a camera in a scene
Photography and cinematography basics
Setting up rendering engine: aspect ratio, resolution, render passes
Practice: Create a final render for your portfolio
This course gives you the freedom to learn at your own pace with unlimited access to recorded lectures, allowing you to revisit the content whenever you wish
You'll benefit from exclusive materials curated by our instructor, designed to accelerate your learning process and help you avoid common mistakes.
By enrolling in our course, you won't be learningin isolation. You'll receive an invitation to join a dedicated Discord server, where you can ask questions, participate in discussions, and network with fellow learners from around the globe.
Models from the free Maya course. You can do it!
The course starts after registration Working with the free Maya software For beginners in 3D modeling
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