Maya 3d Syllabus

1. Maya Modelling

   ~ Creating primitive objects ~ Moving Objects in the 3D Space ~ Maya View Tools ~ Layouts, Saved Layouts ~ Channel Box and Manipulators ~ Grouping and Parenting ~ Spline Modelling ~ About Nurbs (Non-uniform rational B-spline) ~ Creating Curve and Surfaces ~ Attaching and closing Surfaces ~ Duplicating curves ~ Lofting and revolving surfaces ~ Procedural Modeling ~ Create complex object scenes using scripts as an alternative to GUI–based tools

2. Invigorator

   ~ Fast work of importing Adobe Illustrator files into ~ Maya for text and Logo treatments.

3. Rendering Overview

   ~ What is rendering ~ How Maya renders ~ Shader Networks ~ Shading Groups ~ Materials ~ Lights ~ Maya architecture ~ Nodes and Attributes ~ HyperGraph ~ IPR (Interactive Photorealistic Rendering)

4. Lighting

   ~Type of lights – usage of each, techniques for each ~ Light Linking ~ New linking to Objects (and sets) workflow ~ Reason for light linking – matching live footage lighting ~ Light attributes – What you’re adjusting and why – show manipulators ~ Light Fog ~ Intensity Curves

5. Shadows

   ~ Depth map ~What ~When and Why to use ~ Reuse / Share depth maps ~ Raytraced ~ What, When and why to use ~ Shadow Techniques (For realism and Optimization) ~ Adding hard or soft shadows to a scene ~ Shafts of Light – light fog ~ Trouble – shooting section for shadow problems

6. Motion Blur

7. Optifx Techniques And Tips

   ~Occlusion – as applies to light glow ~ Auto–exposure – as applies to Shader Glow

8. Rendering Performance

   ~Selective Ray tracing ~Multithreaded tile-based batch renderer concepts ~Renderer

9. General Animation

   ~ Powerful Keyframing Tools ~Keyframing ~First Cut, copy, and paste animated objects into the timeline ~Animation playblast for rapid review of complex scenes ~ Path Animation ~Animate an object along a curve or surface Edit path or other animation parameters during playback; ~ Set Driven Key ~ Establish Relationships where one action automatically drives another ~ Dope sheet ~ Rapid and intuitive global editing of keyframe timing ~Channel Box ~ Quickly edit an Object’s attributes, one or more fields at a time ~ Graph Editor ~ Precise Controlling on animated parameter changes over time

10. Generalized Constraints

    ~ Comprehensive assortment of constraints

11. Maya Fusion Le

    ~ for image file translations, and getting content to and from videotape

12. Organic Modeling

    ~Rebuilding surfaces ~Editing Control Vertices (CV) ~ NURBS Boolean ~ Apply subtraction, intersect, and union Operations across multiple NURBS surfaces ~ Round ~ Create rounded bevels of constant radius on any NURBS object ~ Surface Offset ~ Create new surfaces, offset from the original specific value. ~ Working with trimmed or untrimmed surfaces ~ Enhanced Extrude ~ Scale and Rotation Control for extruding a curve along a path ~ Square ~ Create NURBS from up to 4 curves ~ Global Stitching ~ Stitching multiple adjoining surfaces together with full continuity ~ Subdivision of Surfaces

13. Maya Artisan

    ~ Artisan’s natural brush interface to interactivity sculpt and Paint attributes on polygons and NURBS or add objects to surfaces

14. Dependency Graph

    ~ Nodes, Attributes ~ Connections ~ Hierarchies and Dependencies ~ Shading group nodes

15. Deformation Tools

    ~ Lattices ~ Sculpt Object ~ Wires

16. Dynamics

    ~ Rigid Body Dynamics ~ Realistic high-speed simulation of multiple rigid objects ~ Dynamic Constraints such as nails, hinges, barriers, pins and springs ~ Soft Body Dynamics ~ Simulation of flexible objects ~ Creation of secondary motion effects like muscle jiggles, floppy hats etc ~ Powerful Spring architecture ~ Extensible Integrated Particle System ~ Powerful integrated particle system with expression-based control over particle attributes, motion, and dynamics Rotation, scaling, translation, or parenting ~ Manipulating particles, fields, and emitters ~ Textured control of particle emission ~ Geometry instancing on single or cycling geometry onto any particle ~ Particle collision ~ Particle Time Control ~ Precise keyframe control by adjusting the base timing for each individual particle object effect ~ Fields ~ Applying fields like gravity, vortex, air, turbulence, etc. ~ Custom fields via extensive dynamics API ~ ClipFX ~ Library of ready-made effects like fire, curve and surface flow, shatter, fireworks, and lighting

17. Software Particle Rendering

18. Hardware Rendering

19. Maya Paint Effects Using 3d Studio Paint

    1. ~ Powerful Painting Techniques ~ Create jungles of trees and plants ~ Flowing hair ~ Flickering flames ~ And many more ~ Paint Effects brushes ~ Natural Media Brushes ~ Effects Brushes ~ Brush Attributes ~ Rendering Paint Effects

20. Character Animation

    ~ Pose Based Characters ~ Skeletons and Inverse Kinematics (IK) ~ Skinning ~ Advanced layered Deformations ~ Integrated sound Synchronization ~ Integrated Motion Capture Concepts

21. Maya Cloth

    ~ Create any Fashion in any Fabric ~ Animate any Fabric object ~ Unique Solver ~ Integration with Maya

22. Maya Fur

    ~ Artisan User Interface ~ Using Artisan to paint fur ~ Using the Artisan brush to comb the hair ~ Multiple Fur Type ~ Using Multiple fur types ~ Assigning Attributes to fur ~ Applying Texture on the fur ~ Animating Fur ~ Fur Rendering

23. Match Moving Using Maya Live

    ~ Match 3D Elements with Live action shots ~ Extract an exact duplicate of the original camera from live-action footage to precisely match the original motion and seamlessly blend live-action and CG elements ~ Camera movement support 2D tracking ~ Tolerant of noisy tracking observations ~ Bi-directional tracking ~ Different Solvers for Different Problems ~ Interactive root frame solver for complete interaction with the camera extraction process ~ Automated comprehensive solver with exclusive Inverse Computer Graphics ~ Reconstructing live-action elements as 3D Geometry ~ Placing Maya 3D Locators in the 3D positions to easily construct scene geometry and precisely position 3D objects relative to the live-action scene.