Maya school training courses in Chicago, IL (public, in-house or online)

Topics:

Product modelling
Photoreal object modelling techniques for commercials assembling your source material aligning image planes in Photoshop
Day 2

Topics:

Advanced shading networks
Layered texture vs. layered shader
Metal: iron, chrome and copper
Glass
Creating wrapping textures
Day 3

Topics:

Environment textures
Blending colors
Facing ratio
Math utilities
Render layers review
Maya vector render engine
Day 4

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This course focuses on the basics of 3D computer graphics using Autodesk Maya. Students are introduced to the Maya interface and philosophy and 3D modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering. Lectures will cover the application of these tools in the film, television and game industries.

Our Maya classes use project based learning to create skills and knowledge through hands-on exercises.

Day 1 - Introduction to Core Concepts and the User Interface

Project 1: Keyframe a snowm...

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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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