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Maya Modelling

• Creating primitive objects
• Moving Objects in the 3D Space
• Maya View Tools
• Layouts, Saved Layouts
• Channel Box and Manipulators
• Grouping and Parenting
• Spline Modelling
• About Nurbs (Non-uniform rational B-spline)
• Creating Curve and Surfaces
• Attaching and closing Surfaces
• Duplicating curves
• Lofting and revolving surfaces
• Procedural Modeling and more...

Invigorator

• Importing Adobe Illustrator files into Maya for text and Logo treatments. 

Rendering Overview

• What is rendering
• How Maya renders
• Shader Networks
• Shading Groups
• Materials
• Lights
• Maya architecture
• Nodes and Attributes
• Hyper Graph
• IPR (Interactive Photo realistic Rendering)

Lighting:

• Type of lights – Usage, Techniques
• Light Linking
• New linking to Objects workflow
• Reason for light linking – matching live footage lighting
• Light attributes (Adjusting, manipulators)

Motion Blur:

• OptiFX Techniques and Tips
• Occlusion – as applies to light glow
• Auto – exposure – as applies to Shader Glow.

Shadows:

• Depth map
• What, When and Why to use
•  Reuse / Share depth maps
•  Ray traced
•  What, When and why to use
•  Shadow Techniques (For realism and optimization)
•  Adding hard or soft shadows to a scene
•  Shafts of Light – light fog
•  Trouble – shooting section for shadow problems
• Shadow linking
• Control which objects cast shadows
  

Rendering Performance:

• Selective Ray tracing
• Multithreaded tile – based batch renderer concepts
• Renderer

Generalized Constraints:

• Comprehensive assortment of constraints

Maya Fusion LE:

• For image file translations, and getting content to and from videotape

Organic Modeling:

• Rebuilding surfaces
• Editing Control Vertices (CV)
• NURBS Boolean
• Apply subtraction, intersect and union Operations across multiple NURBS surfaces and more...

General Animation:

• Powerful Keyframing Tools
• Keyframing
• First Cut, copy and paste of animated objects in the timeline
• Animation playblast for rapid review of complex scenes
• Path Animation
• Animate an object along a curve or surface Edit path or other animation parameters during playback;
• Set Driven Key
• Establish Relationships where one action automatically drives another
• Dope sheet
• Rapid and intuitive global editing of keyframe timing. Channel Box and more...
• Channel Box
• Quickly edit an Object’s attributes, one or more fields at a time.
• Graph Editor.