This intensive course is 24 hours in length. It provides a strong foundation in Maya’s interface and tools. Maya is the pre-eminent choice for animation and visual effects, and is also a market leader in games, motion graphics, design visualization and illustration. Its open-ended architecture excels at complex tasks and production pipelines. It offers a truly vast set of tools, and there are almost no limits to what you can create.

In this course, we cover the basics: Maya tools, artistic techniques and efficient workflow. Trainees acquire essential skills in modeling, animation, materials, lighting and camera, and rendering.

Objectives
Upon completion of the course, trainees will be familiar with the following:
Interface and hotkeys
Coordinate systems
Transform tools
Nodes and attributes
Construction History
Hypershade
Basic animation with Graph Editor and Dope Sheet
Standard lighting techniques
Cameras and rendering
NURBS modeling basics
Polygon modeling basics
Hierarchies
Constraints

Hardware and Software Requirements
Windows or Mac workstations
Autodesk Maya

Prerequisites
Prior 3D graphics experience is not required
Experience with 2D graphics, such as Photoshop, is helpful