Maya school training courses in Austin, TX (public, in-house or online)

In this course, you’ll gain a solid working knowledge of Maya’s 3D visual effects toolset, as well as basic compositing skills in After Effects. In Maya, we’ll explore rigid and soft body dynamics, particle systems, fluids, paint effects, cloth and hair. These tools can create a wide range of powerful effects, such as fire and explosions, rain and snow, plants and
simple crowd systems. You’ll also learn methods for
integrating animation and visual effects with live action footage fo...

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In this course, students will apply all of the technical skills gained in the first three levels of Maya training to create a complete 30-60 second animated short. The process will include narratives, storyboards, animation animatics, blocking passes and output. You’ll create custom characters rigged to interact with their environments and ready to tell a story. The project will be output in a format ready to write to DVD. Advanced students may have projects ready to submit to the animation fest...

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This Maya training course is dedicated to the finer points of character animation. For example, we’ll apply blendshapes to create customized facial animation controls, and we’ll explore arcs, spine and hip placement, weight shift and other character animation techniques will be explored.

Each student in this training course will produce several mini-scenes in which a character or characters walk, talk and speak. These scenes will include interaction with their surroundings and other chara...

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In this Maya training course, you’ll learn the advanced features of Maya’s animation package. We’ll explore the dope sheet and graph editor in depth, and learn about keyframes and how to manipulate them to create believable motion. Many of the basic tenets of good animation will be covered to help you understand the difference between motion and believable physics and weight-based animation.

During the course, you’ll create multiple animation projects, including custom rigs utilizing tech...

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Maya has become one of the foremost 3D packages in the film industry. Participants in this Maya I training course will explore the Maya interface, workflow and production pipeline. The course includes an in-depth analysis of the modeling and texturing process. The class will also introduce students to basic rigging, blendshapes and other character animation functions.

During the course, you’ll use many of Maya’s high-end modeling tools to create a fully modeled, textured, lit and rendered...

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