Maya For FX Artists - Projects Based Course

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Raffi Bedross

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1. Quick intro to Maya

1. Introduction.mp4

01:04

2. Quick Tour.mp4

05:23

3.1 Quick intro section Files.zip

3. Downloadable resources.html

4. Component Mode.mp4

03:12

5. Parenting Objects.mp4

02:40

6. Your first Quiz.html

7. Smoothing Objects in Maya.mp4

05:06

8. Start Modeling a cup.mp4

04:39

9. Finish Modeling the cup.mp4

06:47

10. Your first Animation in Maya.mp4

08:45

11. Quick Look at materials inside Maya.mp4

05:54

12. Modeling a Pen.mp4

13:16

2. Modeling

1.1 Modeling Section files.zip

1. Modeling Section resources.html

2. Importing the images planes.mp4

04:49

3. Modeling the body.mp4

08:16

4. Creating the wood pieces.mp4

03:58

5. Modeling the seal handles.mp4

05:31

6. Modeling the seal.mp4

04:15

7. Modeling the Paddles.mp4

02:45

3. Arnold

1.1 Arnold section files st.zip

1.2 Room Model.zip

1. Downloadable resources.html

2. Render viewer.mp4

09:02

3. Samples.mp4

06:56

4. Ray depth.mp4

06:01

5. Gobo Effect.mp4

10:01

6. Displacement.mp4

05:53

7. Mixing Shaders.mp4

13:43

8. ai Toon Shader.mp4

08:41

9. Depth of Field.mp4

03:20

4. Landscape

1. Intro to landscape section.mp4

00:25

2.1 assets.zip

2.2 sourceimages.zip

2. Downloadable resources.html

3. Creating the ground and setup the Camera.mp4

04:56

4. Creating the Xgen description.mp4

05:10

5. Adding the environment light.mp4

01:59

6. Shading the grass part1.mp4

04:50

7. Shading the grass part2.mp4

03:18

8. Creating the plants and finish the scene.mp4

12:59

5. Fluids

1. Introduction to Fluids.mp4

09:16

2.1 Maya Fluids Files.zip

2.2 sourceimages.zip

2. Downloadable Resources.html

3. Cigarette smoke.mp4

12:40

4. 3D Container.mp4

02:55

5. Density Attributes.mp4

04:03

6. Emitter types.mp4

04:19

7. Turbulence and speed attributes.mp4

04:14

8. Emit From Texture.mp4

06:21

9. Homework.mp4

07:35

10. Rocket Smoke.mp4

12:13

11. Wheel Burnout Effect.mp4

11:14

12. Torch Fire.mp4

11:38

13. Emit fluid from particles.mp4

03:37

14. Helicopter Landing Effect.mp4

09:42

6. Rigid Bodies

1.1 Rigid Body Files.zip

1. Downloadable Resources.html

2. Creating rigid bodies.mp4

08:01

3. Nail Constraint.mp4

05:47

4. Pin and Spring constraint.mp4

05:58

5. Hinge Constraint.mp4

07:07

7. Fields and solvers

1.1 Fields Section Files.zip

1. Downloadable Resources.html

2. Air Field.mp4

05:08

3. Drag Field.mp4

02:46

4. Newton and Radial Fields.mp4

03:37

5. Turbulence and Curve Fields.mp4

05:02

8. Intro to Maya particles

1.1 Intro To nParticles files.zip

1. Downloadable Resources.html

2. Emitters.mp4

05:27

3.1 01 Emitter-Types.pdf

3. Understanding emitter types in Maya.html

4. Emitting from Object (Curve).mp4

10:52

5. Emitting from Object (Surface).mp4

03:16

6.1 05 Particles-Render-Types.pdf

6. particles Render Types (PDF).html

7. Soft Bodies.mp4

05:49

8.1 downloadable file street.zip

8. Rain Effect.mp4

08:52

9. Fill a Text with Particles..mp4

11:57

10. Water effect.mp4

08:26

11. Dry sand.mp4

08:54

12. Collision Layers.mp4

04:17

9. Expressions

1.1 Maya expressions section files.zip

1. Downloadable Resources.html

2. Expression Editor.mp4

06:35

3. Attributes.mp4

07:01

4. Kill the particles based on their position..mp4

07:48

5. Coloring the particles based on the geometry index.mp4

08:07

6. Killing the particles when they exit Force volume.mp4

03:24

7. collision Self Component Id.mp4

03:20

10. nCloth

1.1 nCloth section Files.zip

1. Downloadable Resources.html

2. Creating simple cloth simulation.mp4

06:26

3. Flag Simulation.mp4

04:23

4. Pillow.mp4

02:56

5. Simple Cloth simulation on animated Character.mp4

07:39

6. Skirt and Tanktop simulation.mp4

09:31

11. Bifrost

1. Intro to Bifrost section.mp4

00:28

2.1 BifrostSection files.zip

2. Here you can download the files required for Bifrost section.html

3. Filling a cup with water.mp4

15:08

4. Cache the liquid and the mesh on Disk.mp4

12:39

5. Shading and Rendering the scene.mp4

05:20

6. Color Channel Remap.mp4

10:41

7. Killing particles based on attributes.mp4

04:45

8. Turning off the emitter gradually.mp4

04:27

9. Viscosity simulation.mp4

10:02

10. Viscosity caching,shading and rendering.mp4

08:08

Description

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

What You'll 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...

Who is this 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 Maya

Anyone wants to learn how to create some effects like smoke and fire etc..

What You Need to Know?

Autodesk Maya software

You must have passion to learn visual effects.

More details

Description
This is a comprehensive Maya course.
No time wasting, Straight to the point, direct and objective.
You will learn Maya by creating short and sweet projects.
NO previous knowledge required.

Â Â Â In the first section we are going to dive quickly into Maya's most important features to help you start using MayaÂ Â Â Â
Â Â Â without wasting much of your time, then we are going to learn how to create short projects and 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.
Â Last Updates:
Creating Landscape using xGen
Bifrost
Skirt 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 Effect
Particle Expressions (New section)
Newton and Radial Fields (Fields and solvers Section).
Drag FieldÂ (Fields and solvers Section).
Air field (Fields and solvers Section).

Student Review:Â Terence Kent
Â Â Â "Excellent course about the different fluids and rigid body dynamics in Maya.
Â Â Â Â 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 IÂ created 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.
Bifrost
and 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 Maya
Anyone wants to learn how to create some effects like smoke and fire etc..

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Hello my name is Raffi Bedross and like teaching and help my students.I have 17 year of experience in visual 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.My goal is not just teach you but also having fun while you learn .----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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