Maya for Beginners: Complete Guide to 3D Animation in Maya (Udemy.com)

Learn everything you need for 3D animation in Autodesk Maya: Modeling, Texturing, Lighting, Rigging, Animation, Dynamics

( 262 Reviews )

Created by: Video School

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

You will become comfortable using Autodesk Maya to model, texture, rig, animate, dynamics, light, and render
Build and design your own 3D objects
Animate your 3D objects with keyframes
Modeling, shading, texturing, lighting beautiful designs
Rendering your projects for high quality playback
Rigging a 3D character for animation
Simulating dynamic effects like water, cloth, and smoke
You will know how to put together an entire 3D animated scene!

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Overall Score : 92 / 100

Course Description

You can do your own 3D animations in Autodesk Maya!
Learn everything you need to know to get started - taught by a Hollywood professional!
As the industry standard 3D animation software, learning Autodesk Maya is a great skill to help you land a job in the film, music and gamingindustry. In this course, you'll learn how to create your entire animation from scratch.
What will you learn?
Getting started with Maya and understanding the interfaceModeling your own objects and scenesShading your objectsCreating proper UVsTexturing your objectsLighting your scene and creating shadowsRendering your projectRigging characters to prepare for animationsAnimating with keyframesMotion graphics animation (MASH) toolkitSimulating dynamic effects like cloth and smokePutting together an entire sceneLearn by doing real world projects!
Throughout this entire course, you'll be working on aDia de Los Muertosinspired scene with a complete animated skeleton. By the end of the course, you'll truly be inspired by your own skills, and confident in using Autodesk Maya.
What do you get when you enroll?
25+ hours of easy-to-follow tutorialsBonus animation demonstrationsDownloadable project files for every step of the coursePremium support to help you as you take the courseWhy learn from us?
Lucas Ridley is a professional 3D animator who has worked on Hollywood films such asSteven Spielberg's Ready Player One. His students love him, and we're sure you're going to enjoy this class.
Lucas breaks down the most complicated steps of animating in Autodesk Maya, so that you can easily start animating on your own!
Phil Ebiner is the founder of Video School Online, and has taught over one million students around the world with our top-rated courses. We only partner with the best instructors, so you'll know that you're getting a great course with this one!
Our 30-day 100% money-back guarantee!
We want you to be happy. If there's any reason you aren't enjoying the course, and getting what you expected, we'll refund your money.
We can't wait to see you in the course!
Cheers,Phil + LucasWho this course is for:
We designed this course for complete beginners who want to get started with Autodesk Maya.
We designed this course for anyone that wants to learn 3D animation, and the tools used by professional animators in the film industry.
We designed this course for beginner Autodesk Maya users who want to take their skills to a more advanced next level.

Time: 25.5h

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By Adam on 11/14/2020

I have a scattered knowledge of 3D workflows and this is ties it together very succinctly so far.

By szymon Marczyk on 11/14/2020

Course is great, it covers wide variety of issues, and teaches a lot, the only issue I had so far is that some of things showed in hard surface modeling part are done for speeds sake, and I would also like to see this kind of workflow directed to making finished good topology, like for animation in hard surface, but that is minor issue, because we learn how to do these things earlier, and we should be able to do it proper way ourselves.

By Mike on 11/7/2020

Grate Course

By Raimundo Alves on 11/7/2020

Curso muito bom e completo. Explorou todos os recursos do programa e trouxe tona com uma didtica fantstica. Recomendo este curso para quem queira se tornar um profissional.

By Roman Rychkov on 11/7/2020

Wonderful course. I am a c# programmer, and I have never worked with Maya and animation, but despite this, the instructor was able to explain almost everything from scratch. tnx, exactly what i was looking for game development

By Elvi Angelina on 11/7/2020

Sir Lucas is so patient for making this course and explains all of the things perfectly. After finishing this course I fell in love with his voice. I'm stuck in some part because English is not my first language. I really enjoyed this course and I hope Sir Lucas will make more courses in the future (I hope in that time there will be a discount in Udemy lol)

By Artie Jones on 11/1/2020

Great course so far, I will edit the review once I'm finished with the course!

By Prithis Bhattacharyya on 10/27/2020

nice teaching

By Ravi Raj on 10/27/2020

perfect for me..i love this..course...thank you sir..

By Alex McPherson on 10/26/2020

A great course so far. I have followed a few courses from several sources and I have picked up some new stuff from this course already. I could already model basic stuff already but bought mainly for the animation stuff which I am yet to complete. I am really enjoying the course and can't wait to make some cool iOS ARKit content.

By Great Abraham Mundi on 10/24/2020

I am enjoying the course i have not recovered from the insight i am still learning ....i will make my comment soon.

By Patricio J Llorens on 10/22/2020

The course has an armed scheme, but classes individually seem improvised. The instructor is not concise in what he is doing, he makes mistakes, corrects himself and returns to the same thing. He gets lost in his explanation while teaching. That makes one lose and even frustrated.