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Design 3D & Animation Maya

Maya for Beginners: Complete Guide to 3D Animation in Maya

Learn everything you need for 3D animation in Autodesk Maya: Modeling, Texturing, Lighting, Rigging, Animation, Dynamics
Bestseller
Rating: 4.7 out of 54.7 (4,602 ratings)
21,510 students
Created by Video School, Lucas Ridley
Last updated 1/2021
English
English [Auto], French [Auto], 
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll 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!
Curated for the Udemy for Business collection

Requirements

  • You should have Autodesk Maya to follow along with the course
  • Autodesk provides a free 1-year educational version and 30-day free trial of Maya from their website
  • 3-button mouse

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 gaming industry. 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 interface

  • Modeling your own objects and scenes

  • Shading your objects

  • Creating proper UVs

  • Texturing your objects 

  • Lighting your scene and creating shadows

  • Rendering your project

  • Rigging characters to prepare for animations

  • Animating with keyframes

  • Motion graphics animation (MASH) toolkit

  • Simulating dynamic effects like cloth and smoke

  • Putting together an entire scene

Learn by doing real world projects!

Throughout this entire course, you'll be working on a Dia de Los Muertos inspired 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 tutorials

  • Bonus animation demonstrations

  • Downloadable project files for every step of the course

  • Premium support to help you as you take the course

Why learn from us?

Lucas Ridley is a professional 3D animator who has worked on Hollywood films such as Steven 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 + Lucas

Who 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.

Featured review

Christian Mariano
Christian Mariano
4 courses
3 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 55 months ago
As everyone knows, Maya interface looks like an interface straight out of an encyclopedia, it looks really intimidating. This intro actually gives you a confidence boost as he went over on how it just "looks" like one, and it's not as intimidating as it seems. He explained why it's so, in a clear and concise manner. Spectacular start for this course in in my opinion! Excited to learn more!

Course content

9 sections • 138 lectures • 25h 42m total length

  • Preview01:15
  • How to Download a Free Trial of Maya
    Preview03:44
  • Download Course Files & Free Maya Trial
    00:49
  • Tips to Improve Your Course Taking Experience
    01:06

  • Preview12:26
  • Preview10:51

  • Intro to 3D Modeling
    Preview07:53
  • Ghostbuster Trap
    13:14
  • Insert Edge, Extrude, and Append
    13:30
  • Update: Common Mistakes
    14:13
  • Bevel & Normals
    12:13
  • Booleans
    23:59
  • Knob Motion Path
    21:05
  • Front, Merge Vertices
    16:14
  • Front, Doors
    16:25
  • Cord
    12:00
  • Topology - Lineflow
    05:41
  • Topology - Reducing Even Numbers
    09:20
  • Topology - Reducing Odd Numbers
    07:17
  • "Bones" - Imageplane Setup
    10:50
  • "Bones" - Box vs. Edge Modeling
    09:09
  • "Bones" - Make Live Tool
    11:29
  • "Bones" - Sculpting
    06:44
  • "Bones" - Eye Socket Edge Loops
    15:13
  • "Bones" - Eye Attach
    09:10
  • "Bones" - Nose
    15:04
  • "Bones" - Cleaning Topology
    16:20
  • Update: Retopo and Remesh tools
    06:04
  • "Bones" - Mirroring Head
    11:42
  • Update: Mirror Tool
    03:13
  • "Bones" - Lattice Deformer
    03:54
  • "Bones" - Spine Wire Deformer
    11:40
  • "Bones" - Ribs Bend Deformer
    18:28
  • "Bones" - Sternum
    17:02
  • "Bones" - Right Side Body
    27:28
  • "Bones" - Mirror
    08:39

  • Look Development Introduction
    05:20
  • UVs Intro & Planar Projection
    12:16
  • UVs - Merge Borders & Cylindrical Projection
    10:03
  • UVs - Straighten and Transfer
    05:34
  • UVs - Final Ghostbuster Trap
    05:17
  • UVs - "Bones" Head
    09:21
  • UVs - "Bones" Body
    08:24
  • Intro to Shaders
    07:00
  • Lighting Shaders
    07:44
  • Photographic Textures
    05:07
  • Procedural Textures
    08:18
  • Scene Adjustments
    03:58
  • Hypershade Intro and Fractals
    11:39
  • Brushed Metal and Bump Maps
    11:25
  • OBJ File Format & Fix "Bones"
    06:03
  • "Bones" 3D Paint Tool
    12:08
  • Mix Rust Shader
    12:22
  • GB Trap Finishing Touches
    12:55
  • Fog Lighting
    08:55
  • "Bones" Displacement Map
    19:36
  • "Bones" Glass Material
    02:46
  • "Bones" Lights
    14:26
  • "Bones" Render Sequence
    12:22

  • Rigging Intro
    07:16
  • Rigging QuickRig
    03:14
  • Prop Rigging Parent Costraint
    06:59
  • Prop Rigging Pivot Control
    09:52
  • IK vs. FK
    05:26
  • "Bones" QuickRig Skeleton
    05:13
  • "Bones" Hands
    07:09
  • "Bones" Joint Orientation
    08:42
  • "Bones" Rotate Order
    06:48
  • "Bones" Recreate Limbs
    05:17
  • "Bones" Pole Vectors
    06:24
  • "Bones" Hand Controls
    12:30
  • "Bones" Reverse Foot Rig
    05:18
  • "Bones" Foot Roll SDK
    11:58
  • "Bones" Independent Toe
    04:58
  • "Bones" Organize and Scale
    02:27
  • "Bones" COG and Hips
    08:03
  • "Bones" Spine Controls
    04:13
  • "Bones" Shoulder and Fingers
    09:35
  • "Bones" Hands To Shoulders
    02:53
  • "Bones" Hand Spaces
    07:59
  • "Bones" Head Spaces
    05:50
  • "Bones" Skinning The Feet
    03:43
  • "Bones" Moving Joints Fix
    07:43
  • "Bones" Skinning Spine Weights
    12:59
  • Pose Space Deformation
    10:51
  • "Bones" Skin Body
    03:41
  • Fix Forearm Twist
    07:23
  • "Bones" Head Blendshapes
    13:38
  • "Bones" Clean Up
    09:50

  • Bouncing Ball
    10:04
  • Graph Editor
    11:54
  • Finishing Generic Ball Bounce
    11:35
  • Squash and Stretch
    08:17
  • Ball Exercise
    02:11
  • Ball Exercise Review
    09:41
  • Animation Scene Setup
    05:20
  • Follow Through
    14:43
  • Follow Through Polish
    09:09
  • Antics, Contrast, and Overshoots
    20:28
  • Constraints
    12:50
  • Referenced Rigs
    05:04
  • Walk Cycle Start
    10:22
  • Walk Cycle Mirror Keys
    06:44
  • Walk Cycle Breakdowns
    10:12
  • Walk Cycle Finish Lower Body
    18:15
  • Walk Cycle Upper Body
    10:15
  • Walk Cycle Offsets
    10:27
  • Walk Cycle Polish
    09:58
  • Walk Cycle Off The Spot
    04:39
  • Walk Cycle Polish More
    08:58
  • Walk Cycle Motion Trail Wrists
    16:30
  • Walk Cycle Motion Path
    17:21
  • Wrap Up
    06:31

  • Part 1 Demonstration
    01:03:26
  • Part 2 Demonstration
    56:56
  • Part 3 Demonstration
    58:50

  • Scene Scale
    07:52
  • MASH Brick Wall
    08:37
  • Bullet Simulation Intro
    07:21
  • Bullet Shatter
    10:21
  • Alembic Cache
    08:57
  • nParticle Ground Shatter
    12:53
  • Ground Bullet Simulation
    20:05
  • Fix Sim
    03:37
  • Fireflies Dynamics
    16:24
  • Fireflies Dynamics Animated
    20:32
  • nHair Rope
    13:11
  • nCloth Banner
    14:41
  • nCloth Vest
    24:09
  • Bifrost Liquid
    10:49
  • Bifrost Emitter
    06:45
  • Bifrost Smoke 01
    23:13
  • Bifrost Smoke 02
    06:37
  • MASH Grass
    17:53
  • Texturing
    26:48
  • Render Setup 01
    08:05
  • Render Setup 02
    06:02

  • Bonus Lecture: Learn More from Phil + Video School
    00:29

Instructors

Video School
Learn Creative Skills
Video School
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 289,666 Reviews
  • 2,113,584 Students
  • 157 Courses

Learn creative skills, from absolute beginner to advanced mastery. 

Video School exists to help you succeed in life. Each course has been hand-tailored to teach a specific skill from photography and video to art, design and business.

Whether you’re trying to learn a new skill from scratch, or want to refresh your memory on something you’ve learned in the past, you’ve come to the right place.

Education makes the world a better place. Make your world better with new skills!

Our courses can be watched 24/7 wherever you are. Most are fully downloadable so you can take them with you. You can also view them on mobile devices with the Udemy mobile app.

All courses have a 30-day money-back guarantee so that you can check it out, make sure it’s the right course for you, and get a refund if it’s not!

Lucas Ridley
Award-winning Animator
Lucas Ridley
  • 4.7 Instructor Rating
  • 4,982 Reviews
  • 24,760 Students
  • 14 Courses

My work has been featured in Annie-nominated, Emmy-winning, and Oscar short-listed short films. I'm an animator and commercial director and I've created content for brands like LEGO, Braun, Nestle, and Anhueser-Busch. I recently worked at the birthplace of visual effects, Industrial Light & Magic where I worked on films by Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg and most recently on the record-breaking Avenger's: Infinity War as an animator

I'm eager to share my professional knowledge that has allowed me to make a career out of creating content for big brands and big movies.

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