+Intermediate Maya Training (animation)


Course Duration: 40 hours

Tuition: $1800.00 US

Overview: Focus on more advanced animation or modeling features and or optimization features.

Prerequisite: Intro to MAYA or prior MAYA experience

This Maya training workshop has the most potential for customizing instruction.

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 Cycles - 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.
  
  

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  > Level 6 > Level 7

• 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.
• Tailoring your project to fit a strict production schedule
• 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.

As an aside, however, many times the class learns a great deal more than what's listed above. Come take a look at what our last class accomplished in just one week:

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