Autodesk Maya 3d Animation Production
Course Description
This comprehensive course is designed to provide you with a thorough understanding of Autodesk Maya, one of the leading 3D modeling, animation and rendering software applications used in the industry. The course covers a wide range of topics from the basics of navigating the Maya interface and creating simple 3D models, to advanced techniques in character modeling, UV mapping, rigging, animation and rendering. You will learn how to manipulate polygonal objects, apply textures, create complex characters and produce high-quality renders, providing you with the skills necessary to create professional-grade 3D artwork.
Course Title: Autodesk Maya 3d Animation Production
Duration: 5 Days
Time: 9am - 5pm
Venue: Leisure Commerce Square, PJ
Trainer: Mr Yavinesh
Learning Outcomes
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
- Navigate the Maya interface and utilize key commands and shortcuts for efficient workflow
- Create, manipulate and transform basic 3D models using primitive objects and Transform tools
- Organize and manage 3D artwork by grouping, parenting and changing pivot points
- Perform basic and advanced polygon modeling, including selecting, editing, rotating, scaling and transforming components
- Model simple characters by turning basic polygons into smooth, polished models and attach body parts together
- Perform UV mapping and unwrapping, paint textures and assign shader attributes to control surface properties
- Understand and apply rigging techniques, including drawing joints, IK and FK, creating blendshapes and binding skin for accurate deformation
- Animate objects and characters, including keyframing, using the graph editor and creating walk cycles
- Utilize camera attributes and animate camera movements for dynamic scene compositions
- Implement lighting techniques, including directional, spotlight, area and point lights, as well as three-point lighting and HDRI
- Use Arnold Renderer to produce high-quality renders of 3D projects
Training Investment and Advantages
The course fee is RM4500 per participant
Benefits include:
- Assurance of competency
- Official Certificate of Completion
- Three months of post-training support
- Options for personalized in-house training sessions
Course Outline
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Intro to Maya
- Maya interface
- View, zoom in and out and navigate between different artwork displays through key commands and shortcuts
- Create and adjust primitives objects to create basic 3D models and using the Transform tools to move, rotate and scale them in three dimensions
- Organize artwork, group, parent and change pivot point
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Basic Polygon Modeling in Maya
- Select components and edit them, rotating, scaling and transforming the elements in the model
- Delete, extrude or cut to add details to the objects
- Booleans to overlap objects to merge or extrude new shapes
- Duplicate or flip components and a focus on how to use object history to keep track of the complexity of the model
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Simple Character Modeling
- Turning basic polygons into complex, smooth, polished models
- Creating edges to follow correct topology
- Split polygons by creating new edges and faces and draw new polygons freehand
- Attach body parts together
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UV Mapping, Texturing and Shading
- Projecting UV map
- Unwrapping UV map
- Painting textures
- Assigning and editing shaders attributes
- Control shader color, specular, transparency and reflectivity
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Rigging
- Blendshapes
- IK and FK concept
- Drawing joints for moving parts
- Apply IK handles for skeleton
- Draw and assign controllers
- Bind skin and weight paint for accurate deformation
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Animation
- Keyframe a bouncing ball
- Editing animation curve using graph editor
- Animating a Character Walkcycle
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Camera Works
- Camera attributes
- Animating camera
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Lighting & Rendering
- Directional light, spotlight, area light and point light
- Three-point lighting
- Image Based Lighting (HDRI)
- Arnold Renderer
- Rendering Project
Who Should Attend this Course?
- This course is designed for working adults with or without basic working knowledge of Autodesk® MAYA® for the Animation, Games and Design Industry, including for 3D Modeler, Game designers, Advertisement Producer, 3D Visualizers and lecturers. If your goal is to learn the fundamental of Autodesk Maya, this course is designed for you. You will obtain new knowledge and skills in polygon modeling and other 3D tools.
The Instructor
Yavinesh Rajagopal
Prior to becoming a trainer, he has worked as DTP artist, graphic designer and multimedia designer for more than 6 years. Plus with 13 years’ experience in teaching working adults on Figma, Adobe XD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Captivate, Autodesk Autocad, Catia, Autodesk Revit, Inkscape, GIMP and Autodesk Maya in the area of Graphic Designing, UI & UX, Course Authoring, Video Editing, Vfx, Motion Graphics, Mechanical Engineering, Architectural Drawing, BIM (Building Information Modeling) and 3D Animation Production.
For more information and to register,
kindy email to jessy@brainymation.com or
Call us at 03 7865 6272