February 22, 2011

The popular Maya Basics videos that helped launch Digital Arts Guild are now available in HD! Clearer video makes it easier for you to learn the many details of Maya’s unique user interface.

This is a series of five free videos, each about ten minutes long. In this series, you learn to navigate in the “wonderful world of Maya.” We create a very simple 3D model, an ice cream cone, and add a material to change its color. Here are some of the activites covered in this beginner’s tutorial:

Set Maya user interface and preferences
Create objects and place them in 3D space
Navigate in 3D with mouse and keyboard shortcuts
Understand nodes and attributes
Adjust attribute values such as Radius
Change the shape of an object with a Deformer

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