Learning Autodesk Maya 2013: A Video IntroductionCreate Stunning 3D Visual Effects

Table of Contents

Hello!  

What Is Maya?  03:52

How to Use the Project Files  01:34

Introducing Maya  

The Nickel Tour: User Interface Layout  14:13

Getting Around in Maya  08:13

Maya Objects and Hierarchy  17:36

Exposing Maya Windows  15:27

Customizing Maya  08:32

Polygonal Modeling  

Vertices, Edges, and Faces  05:08

Creating Polygon Primitives  08:13

Tool Settings  08:50

Basic Modeling Operations: Dividing Geometry  11:50

Basic Modeling Operations: Extending Geometry  10:15

Modeling with Multiple Objects  09:44

Subdivision Surface Modeling  

SubD Primitives in Maya  06:47

Improving on Maya's Native SubDs  04:39

Creating Hard Surfaces with SubDs  06:29

SubDs at Render Time  09:54

SubDs in mental ray  07:07

NURBS Modeling  

Introduction to NURBS  03:36

NURBS Primitives  06:31

NURBS Modeling: Revolve and Loft  06:38

NURBS Modeling: Extrude and Birail  08:16

Basic Maya Shading  

Intro and Hypershade Shakedown  08:59

Basic Shaders: The Lambert, Phong, and Blinn Shaders  09:11

Basic Shaders: The Anisotropic, Ramp, and Surface Shaders  08:57

Texture Nodes and Bump Maps  09:03

Shading Networks  10:59

Using the Substance Texture  07:36

Introducing UV Mapping  06:54

Working with UVs and UV Snapshots  07:28

Basic Maya Lighting

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Basic Maya Lighting  

Three-Point Lighting  09:17

Maya Lights Overview  08:56

Manipulating and Animating Lights  08:15

Rendering Shadows  09:48

Light Linking  05:04

Basic Lighting Effects  09:07

Basic Maya Rendering  

Creating and Manipulating Cameras  12:36

Outputting Renders  13:54

Render Settings: Quality and Motion Blur  09:10

IPR Rendering  03:31

Raytracing: Reflections, Refractions, and Shadows  12:13

Controlling Object Render Stats  02:29

Batch Rendering a Sequence  04:38

Rendering in Layers  08:39

Compositing Render Layers and Creating a Shadow Pass  07:12

Basic Animation  

The Basics of Animating in 3D  02:37

Keyframe Basics  08:25

The Graph Editor  10:55

Creating Skeletons and Constraints  10:51

Using Set Driven Key  06:43

The Connection Editor  04:29

The Expression Editor  07:14

Skin Binding  04:42

Mental Ray Shading and Lighting  

Introducing mental ray  07:29

Mental Ray Area Light and Decay Rates  05:54

The Mia and Car Paint Shaders  09:35

Using the Physical Sun and Sky System  09:49

Indirect Lighting with mental ray  

Important mental ray Render Settings  08:47

Introducing Final Gather  08:46

Controlling Final Gather  05:05

HDRI Fundamentals  04:03

Using an HDRI with mental ray (Part 1)  08:01

Using an HDRI with mental ray (Part 2)  05:27

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