Learning Maya 7/Foundation is your shortcut to learning Maya quickly and effectively. Get hands-on experience with the key tools and techniques found in Maya through project-based lessons while you learn to model, animate, render, and add dynamic effects to your creations.
Further, you'll gain a sense of the entire production process as you work on the robot Blue and his extra-terrestrial environment. Learn about storyboarding, planning and seeing a project through all of its stages while you take advantage of easy-to-follow step-by-step lessons.
Introduction Understsnding Maya
Project 01
Lesson 01 Create a room
Lesson 02 Making a solar system
Lesson 03 Shaders and textures
Lesson 04 Lights and effects
Lesson 05 Particles
Lesson 06 Adding details
Lesson 07 Working with Maya
Lesson 08 The Dependency Graph
Project 02
Lesson 09 Polyonal orb
Lesson 10 Texturing the orb
Lesson 11 Rendering features
Lesson 12 Set up and animation
Lesson 13 Orb animation
Lesson 14 Rigid bodies
Project 03
Lesson 15 NURBS modeling
Lesson 16 NURBS texturing
Lesson 17 Maya render types
Lesson 18 Skeleton
Lesson 19 Skinning
Lesson 20 IK handles
etc.