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Best Maya Courses 2021

 

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Maya for Beginners: Complete Guide to 3D Animation in Maya

You can create your own 3D animations in Autodesk Maya!

Learn everything you need to know to get started – taught by a Hollywood professional!

As standard 3D animation software, learning Autodesk Maya is a great skill to help you land a job in the film, music, and games industry. In this Maya course, you will learn how to create your entire animation from scratch.

What are you going to learn?

Getting started with Maya and understanding the interface

Model your own objects and scenes

Shade your objects

Create appropriate UVs

Texture your objects

Light up your scene and create shadows

Rendering your project

Rigging characters to prepare the animations

Animation with keyframes

Graphic Animation Toolkit (MASH)

Simulation of dynamic effects like fabric and smoke

Assemble an entire scene

Learn by doing real world projects!

Throughout this course, you will work on a Dia de Los Muertos inspired stage with a full animated skeleton. By the end of the Maya course, you will be truly inspired by your own skills and confident in using Autodesk Maya.

Over 25 hours of easy-to-follow tutorials

Downloadable project files for each stage of the course

You will learn:

You will become familiar with Autodesk Maya to model, texture, rig, animate, energize, illuminate, and render
Build and design your own 3D objects
Animate your 3D objects with key images
Modeling, shading, texturing, lighting beautiful designs
Render your projects for high quality playback
Rig a 3D character for animation
Simulation of dynamic effects such as water, fabric and smoke
You will know how to put together an entire 3D animated scene!

Learn Maya – A Beginners guide to Creating Realistic Scenes

Updated to Maya 2018!

Explore the wonderful world of Autodesk Mayan with this comprehensive introductory course. Maya is a standard 3D application used to create movies, games, and graphics. In this course, you will learn how to create your own stunning images.

Learn about Autodesk Maya Basics

Install Maya

Learn the Mayan user interface

Model and texture realistic objects

Animate your models

Light up and render your animations so that they look great!

Benefits of learning maya for beginners

Maya is an industry standard application used by many high end productions. By learning it, you make yourself more employable. It has a flexible and wide tool set that can help you create high quality work faster. This course is specially designed to familiarize you with maya, showing you the most common and powerful tools. This is a project-based course that will teach you practical skills that you can use in your own work. This course comes with all the project files you need and current working files in case you get stuck.

This course has five sections:

How to install maya

Mayan fundamentals

In this section, you take a first look at maya and the user interface. You will learn the different editors and the basics of object creation and manipulation

Toy train project

In this section, you will create a toy train model and animate it along a path. You will learn how to light your train and apply materials to it. You will finish by rendering your animation and viewing it.

Wizard Desktop Project

In this project, you are going to create a desktop scene that you can customize and create yourself! Dive deeper into the modeling tools and create a series of objects to create your scene. You will learn how to texture your objects and examine different shaders to create different materials. You will also learn more advanced lighting techniques and how to add atmosphere to your scene and render a final image. This project is flexible enough to let you get creative with your own composition, lighting, and look.

Realistic Character Modeling For Game In Maya and Zbrush

Welcome to realistic character modeling for the game in the Maya & Zbrush course. These over 21 hours of video content will teach you how to model and sculpt realistic human figures step by step.

Do you have any of these problems?

Do you lack confidence when it comes to realistic character modeling?

Does your character model look like a cartoon or an alien even if you don’t want to?

Are you okay with props or inorganic modeling, but find character modeling difficult?

Do you want to become a character modeling artist but struggling to model realistic characters?

Wondering how professionals model such realistic characters?

Do you want to switch to character modeling from props or the environment?

If any of these seem like you’re having trouble, this is the perfect course for you.

Why should you take this course?

Learning realistic character modeling is a necessary step in becoming a character modeling artist for gaming and movies. The Character Modeling Artist position is a highly rewarding and demanding position in the film and gaming industry.

By the end of this course, you will be able to model realistic human figures for your portfolio so that you can apply for the job of your dreams.

If you are a freelance writer, you can learn it and add a new earning method to your bag.

You will be a better artist after completing this course.

If you are a student this is the best course as it shows you how to model a professional looking character model with a step by step approach so you can follow along.

1. Introduction

Introduce yourself to concept art and the lesson plan.

2. Maya Basics for Beginners

Maya Basics and this is for absolute Maya beginners.

3. Modeling the character’s body in Maya

Learn the Maya modeling tools to model the character body

4. Modeling of jacket, pants and hat

Learn the Maya modeling tools to model a jacket and hat

5. Modeling of gloves and accessories

Discover the Maya modeling tools to model the basic mesh of gloves

6. Modeling guns in Maya

You will learn hard surface modeling in Maya by making realistic gun for the character.

7. Zbrush basics for beginners

Zbrush Basics and again this is for absolute Zbrush newbies.

8. Sculpture of the character’s body

Anatomy of the head and hand. How to sculpt realistic lips, nose, eyes and ears.

9. Skin details

How to sculpt photo-realistic skin details such as pores, fine wrinkles, skin bumps and most importantly how the skin looks different in different areas of the face and hand.

10. Sculpt the hair with a fiber net

using fiber mesh to create hair, beard, mustache eyebrows, eyelashes and body fur.

11. Jacket details

I will work on the details of the jacket. In this module, you will learn how to model ripped shirts, add wear and tear, create your alpha costume and a lot more.

12. Trouser sculpture

You will learn different types of pleats and how to sculpt those pleats on the pants. You will also learn how to decompress UV in Zbrush, adding surface textures, seam details and memory pleats.

13. Shoe sculpture with Zmodeler in Zbrush

Sculpt the shoe with Zmodeler in Zbrush here, you will learn how to use Zmodeler to model the sole trade model, make the shoe lace with a Curve brush and add stitching to the shoe.

14. Details of the gun holster

In this module, you will learn how to sculpt the pistol holster.

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