In this course we will cover tools and techniques for curve-based facial rigging in Maya.

PoserFusion plug-ins are perfect for industrial and architectural design, pre-visualization, theatrical set design, gaming prototype development, storyboarding, illustration and animation. PoserFusion will enable you to add 3D Poser characters to any project, saving you time and resources. The family of PoserFusion plug-ins transform Poser Pro 2012 into a character animation solution, creating a pipeline that will transport Poser scenes into 3ds Max, Maya, CINEMA 4D and LightWave. PoserFusion will allow you to host and render full Poser scenes, including all their 3D elements such as clothing and hair within these powerful pro applications. Integrate either static or animated Poser figures with Vertex Weight Map rigging and dynamics that are fully textured and posable, with full morph targets for facial expression and body sculpting morphs.

Voice-O-Matic is an easy-to-use plug-in which automates the lip synch process for your animated CG characters directly in your favorite 3D software. Simply feed a recorded audio file to Voice-O-Matic and it will automatically generate timing and lip position data for your characters.

In this course we will learn various animation tips and tricks to make more appealing character animation

Set in the exotic terrain of the Yucatan Peninsula, Lost Treasure Of The Maya is an action/adventure film that manifests all the qualities that make for an entertaining and captivating film. The fast-pace style makes for a surprise at every turn, while the charisma and chemistry of the main characters create a romantic subplot. The story begins when evil tomb-raiders rob precious Mayan artifacts and soon face their most difficult opponent an unpredictable, rugged, ex-military operative who discovers his true self after ending 5 years in hiding...

Maya 2011 Lighting and Rendering in mental ray with Eric Keller shows how to master practical mental ray techniques for rendering models created in Maya. This course walks through the most efficient and innovative mental ray techniques, including direct versus indirect lighting methods, creating different types of shadows, using the new ShadowMap camera, and reusing shadow and final gathering maps. A chapter on optimizing render times and enhancing render quality is also included. Exercise files are included with the course.

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Autodesk Maya 2011 software features powerful new tools for helping create and repurpose character animation: enhanced skinning capabilities and non destructive live motion retargeting. Its new 3D Editorial timeline helps accelerate previsualization and virtual moviemaking workflows, while an invigorated user interface helps improve artists efficiency and creativity. Maya 2011 addresses todays demanding production requirements with its highperformance viewport display of large scenes, integrated color management, scene segmentation improved rotoscoping, and new UI toolkit. With support for 64bit as Windows operating systems, Maya is now more accessible than ever, offering artists an endtoend creative workflow at exceptional value

Maya 2011: Creating Textures and Shaders with Eric Keller shows how to create textures and materials, and then apply them to models to render realistic surfaces. The course covers working with the mental ray shading nodes, including the mental images architectural node, subsurface scattering nodes, occlusion, and car paint shaders, as well as how to incorporate these nodes into shading networks using the Hypershade editor. It also explores using textures, Maya software nodes, normal maps, and displacement maps for adding detail to models. Exercise files accompany the course.

Author George Maestri explores the significant and robust feature set in Maya 2011 that add functionality for its 3D workflows in Maya 2011 New Features. This course covers the addition of Bezier curves for NURBS modelers, the Connect Component and Spin Edge tools in the polygonal modeling mode, and rigging tools for character animation. Enhancements to rendering and special effects are also reviewed. Exercise files accompany the course.

Here’s the first update for Autodesk Maya 2011. Autodesk Maya 2011 software features powerful new tools for helping create and repurpose character animation: enhanced skinning capabilities and non-destructive live motion retargeting. Its new 3D Editorial timeline helps accelerate pre-visualization and virtual movie-making workflows, while an invigorated user interface helps improve artists efficiency and creativity. Maya 2011 addresses today s demanding production requirements with its high-performance viewport display of large scenes, integrated color management, scene segmentation, improved rotoscoping, and new UI toolkit. With support for 64-bit as Windows operating systems, Maya is now more accessible than ever, offering artists an end-to-end creative workflow at exceptional value.

Autodesk Maya offers a cross-cutting experts of the creative process with a complete set of tools for 3D animation, modeling, simulations, and visual effects, rendering, compositing and motion tracking based on easily expandable platform. All of these capabilities in a single application of exceptional value for specialists in computer graphics. Maya 2011 can now run on 64-bit platform, Mac OS ® X. The new version improved user interface, procedures, character animation and interaction with the viewport, adds new features 3D editing, built-in color management.

Description: Embark on a thrilling adventure into the depths of the South American jungle and discover the ancient secret of the Mayan! When British scientist Sarah Oldman finds out that her uncle disappeared in South America, she understands that his disappearance is related to the search of an ancient Mayan artifact. Sarah Oldman investigation leads to the abandoned village of Maya, which may be the key in the search for the artifact.

Discover over 9 hours of project-based training to learn the fundamentals of modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, dynamics, lighting, and rendering in Maya. Taught by four Digital-Tutors instructors, each teaching their core areas of expertise to provide an essential guide to utilizing the powerful tools available in Maya. Ideal for new and beginning artists.

In this collection of lessons we will learn about a wide variety of useful Hypershade rendering nodes. These lessons include using the Displacement node to create displacementmapping effects, using the Layered Texture node to create complex multilayered textures, using the Optical FX node to add realistic lens flares to Maya lights, using the different Switch Utility nodes in order to add realistic variation between many objects using the same shading network, plus several other useful Hypershade nodes.

This training will be covering how to generate fluid simulations from scratch and all of the key attributes in the fluid shape node A few things that we will learn in this course will include dynamic simulation settings, adjusting temperature and fuel, converting the fluid simulation into geometry and working with the shading attributes to name a few. This course is perfect for beginning artist who are new to Maya and Fluids as well as seasoned Maya artists looking for an explanation of what a particular attribute does.

In this series of lessons we're going to take a look at the basics of working with UVs in Maya.

UVs and UV layouts are important aspects of creating textures for our 3d models. They let us tell Maya how to apply the 2d images we create. Having a good uv layout can really make a difference in speeding up texture creation and optimizing your results.

In this series of lessons we will explore a variety of techniques for creating realistic lighting which can also convey a sense of mood and atmosphere within Maya.

Throughout these lessons we will learn how to use lights and shading network modifications to create the appearance of real light sources, as well as using lights to call attention to particular areas of our scene. This course will be placing emphasis on efficient rendering practices, and some guidelines that you can use in your day-to-day work to help your renders proceed as quickly as possible. We will also take some time to learn how volume primitives and 3D textures in Maya can be used to create complex volumetric effects within our scene.

This training series looks at the multiple tools within Maya 2011 and an example of how to use them. Maya is a vast program that covers a great amount of workflows from 3D modeling to full blown animation, but it's the tools that bind you and your imagination to the program. This training helps new artists who have never used Maya all the way up to the Maya pros. Also included are some workflows that take you through the steps necessary to create a fully textured model within the software. So sit back and enjoy the one program everyone that has ever played video games wanted to learn.