Maya is also becoming more widely used in the video game industry to create visual effects for games such as Call of Duty and Halo. Since its original release, Maya has become widely used in the film industry to create graphics for Academy Award winning films such as Rango and Hugo. acquired Maya and renamed it to 'Autodesk Maya'.

Maya 1.0 was originally developed and released in 1998 by Alias Wavefront and seven years later in 2005, Autodesk, Inc. What is Autodesk Maya? (description provided by Edulearn website)Īutodesk Maya is an industry leading 3D animation software application developed by Autodesk that enables video professionals who work with animated film, television programs, visual effects, and video games to create highly professional three-dimensional (3D) cinematic animations. The following information is a combination of resources provided on the internet (citations provided) as well as my personal course notes on 3D Modeling in Maya. Class Assignment: experiment with the manipulation of the polygon primitives, have fun, and develop skills and confidence Demonstrations: accessing viewports, creating polygon primitives, moving scaling, rotating, making selections, extrusion Moodboards as part of concept development.

Basic Poly Manipulation: extrusion techniques.

Understanding basic perspective and orthographic views in Maya.

Moving, scaling, rotating, making a selection.

Anatomy of a Polygon - vertices, edges and faces.

Camera Manipulation - 'zoom', pan, rotating the camera, toggle between viewports.

Lecture/ Class Discussion: Getting Started in Maya discussion of Syllabus and upcoming Assignments/ Projects Goals for Week 1, Tuesday August 27th and Thursday August 29th

Maya modeling software