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Maya For FX Artists - Projects Based Course (Udemy.com)

Learn Maya from scratch by creating variety of short projects : NO previous knowledge required

4.4
646 reviews

Created by: Raffi Bedross

Last updated July 2026

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What you will learn

  • You will learn Maya from scratch
  • You will have solid knowledge in Maya FX.
  • You will learn Maya Bifrost.
  • You will learn Maya Fluids.
  • You will learn nCloth.
  • You will learn how to create wheel burnout.
  • You will learn how to use Maya FX to create Variety of effects.
  • You will learn rigid bodies Dynamics.
  • You will Learn Maya nParticles.
  • And much more...

How it compares

Against the other 545 rated Udemy courses in 3D Modeling on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 26% of them
  • Reviews646#119 of 546 by number of reviews
  • Length8.9 hourslonger than 62% of them
  • Last updatedJuly 2026more recently than 97% of them

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Course Description

This is a comprehensive Maya course.
You will learn Maya by creating short and sweet projects.
NO previous knowledge required.
No Time wasting,it's all about doing and creating short projects and effects.
This course is continually updated with new lectures,new effects and new techniques. In the first section we are going to dive quickly into Maya's most important features to help you start using Maya without wasting much of your time,then we are going to learn how to create effects in Maya.
Instead of creating one big project,this course contains variety of professional and high quality short projects,this is more fun,more interesting and more engaging for beginners.
Last Updates:
Arnold (still being updated)Creating Landscape using xGenBifrostSkirt and Tanktop simulation (nCloth Section).
Simulating a cloth on animated character (nCloth Section).
nCloth (New Section)collision Self Component Id (Expression Section).
Killing the particles when they Exit the volume field (Expression Section).
Collision Layers.
Coloring the particles based on the geometry index (Expression Section).
Dry sand using nParticles.
Water EffectParticle Expressions (New section)Newton and Radial Fields (Fields and solvers Section).
Drag Field(Fields and solvers Section).
Air field (Fields and solvers Section).
Student Review: Terence Kent "Excellent course about the different fluids and rigid body dynamics in Maya. Really helped me to understand the basics, I'm now really comfortable using these in my projects."Maya is a standard 3D Application tool used widely in Visual Effects studios to create 3D models,game assets, smoke,fire and dust etc...
Learning Maya is challenging for beginners,that's why Icreated this course to cover all the techniques,we are going to start supper simple and gradually we're going to create more advanced effects.
What you will Learn:
Quick dive into Autodesk Maya.
3D modeling fundamentals.
You will Understand how the 2D and 3D containers work.
Complete nParticles section.
Expressions.
How to use Maya fields.
Creating Helicopter Landing dust effect.
Creating Torch Fire.
Creating rain effect.
Rigid Bodies.
Creating Wheel burnout.
Water effect.
Dust effect.
Rocket smoke.
Bifrostand much more...
So enroll now and I promise you won't be disappointed. Who this course is for:
Anyone wants to learn Maya from scratch.
Maya artists curious about learning Maya FX and Dynamics.
Anyone wants to learn how to create visual effects inside MayaAnyone wants to learn how to create some effects like smoke and fire etc..
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Instructor Details

Raffi Bedross

Hello my name is Raffi Bedross and like teaching and help my students.
I have 17 year of experience invisual effects.Creating visual effects like smoke,fire and water simulation,and Rigging characters in many softwares.
I helped my students to achieve best careers in 3d animation and visual effects industry.
Mygoal is not just teach you but also having fun while you learn .
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4.4

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By Yomi Babarinde on 11/1/2020

It's advanced and well detail

By Brianna Riding on 10/11/2020

So far so good. Ive already been learning Maya on my own for a bit now, and Ive learned new things and shortcuts even in the basic beginner videos that will be saving me time in the future. Looking forward to how the course progresses.

By Steven Dexter on 9/25/2020

I think short bursts of tutorials for Maya is better than one long project tutorial because Maya has many depths to get familiar with.

By Edward Reed on 9/12/2020

I was apprehensive. Seems good so far. Just learned how to center the pivot point! I've looked for hours to find a simple similar process for C4D.

By Ravi Kumar on 8/26/2020

Till now,awesome.

By Alberto Lopez Ruiz on 8/16/2020

Great course for Maya beginners, with a lot of useful tips.

By Kevin Yancy on 7/18/2020

A+ I've really enjoyed the course and I'm looking forward to taking Houdini another animation program with him. A+

By Arunkumar T on 7/17/2020

its good and best for learning the fx creations

By Nishkarsh Sharma on 6/19/2020

I wanted a particle based maya course and thats what it is. I completed modeling and stuff but wanted to learn vfx and particles based simulation with maya with fast paced teaching and i got just that and i am happy.
One thing i liked it he explained many attributes even when he is not teaching he explain them and makes those infinte option in maya clear for me>
Thanks!

By Ahmad on 6/16/2020

This Course really helped me to know most of Maya. Doing different projects really made me explore more of Maya and made me learn more than focusing on one project using one aspect of Maya
And the instructor Raffi Bedross went through each project smoothly and explained everything in a very nice way

By William Richmond on 6/11/2020

So far, but I only have Maya Lt

By Amas Movsisian on 6/9/2020

This guy knows his job. Perfect course.

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