+Intermediate Maya Training (animation)
Course Duration: 40 hours
Tuition: $1800 US
Overview: Focus on more advanced animation,
modeling and optimization features.
Prerequisite: Intro
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?
Tutorials:
- Lead the student through the entire process of animating a short film
from concept to completion
- Storyboarding
- Character design and concept Work
- Modeling and animating your character
- Rendering your production
- Finalizing your look using Adobe After Effects.
click to experiance!
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