Course Duration: 40 hours
Tuition: $1,800 US
Overview: This Maya training focuses on more advanced animation, modeling, and optimization features.
Tutorials: Students will be lead through the entire process of animating a short film from concept to completion. This process includes storyboarding, character design, concept work, modeling & animating a character, rendering a production, and finalizing your look using Adobe After Effects.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Maya or prior Maya experience
Topics:
- Customize your Maya environment using MEL
- Understand the importance of attributes and be able to work with them
- Proper technique regarding animated cycles
- Run & walk cycles
- Lip-Sync for speaking characters
- Acting and Animation
- Timing and weight and how they influence believability
- Build custom user interface elements using MEL
- Use expressions to add power to your animations
- Create and use MEL procedures for use in script files
- Understand the different elements that comprise Maya Dynamics
- Create and animate Rigid Body objects
- Create and animate particles using fields, goals, ramps and expressions
- Render particles with hardware graphics and software techniques
- Dynamically animate NURBs and polygonal surfaces using Soft Bodies
- Utilize Artisan functionality in conjunction with Maya Dynamics tools
- Instance geometry with particle motion
Discussions:
- Real world deadlines and how they relate to your workload
- Give and takes of production. Quality of work relating to deadline. What is possible in our allotted timeline?
- Discuess MEL procedures vs manual procedures
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ANIMATION ONE: 3.5 MB (SWF file)
ANIMATION TWO: 17 MB (AVI file)
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