Maya Modelling
❖ Moving Objects in the 3D Space
❖ Maya View Tools
❖ Layouts, Saved Layouts
❖ Channel Box and Manipulators
❖ Grouping and Parenting
❖ Spline Modeling
Rendering Overview
❖ Shader Networks
❖ Shading Groups
❖ Materials & Lights
Lighting
❖ Type of lights-usage of each, techniques for each
❖ Light Linking
❖ Light Fog
❖ Intensity Curves
Shadows- Depth map.
Motion Blur
Rendering Performance
❖ Selective Ray tracing
❖ Multithreaded tile-based batch renderer concepts
❖ Renderer
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
Organic Modeling
❖ Rebuilding surfaces
❖ Editing Control Vertices (CV)
❖ NURBS Boolean
❖ Apply subtraction, intersect and union Operations across multiple NURBS surfaces
❖ Round
❖ Create rounded bevels of constant radius on any NURBS object
❖ Surface Offset
❖ Create new surfaces, offset from original specific value.
❖ Working with trimmed or untrimmed surfaces
❖ Enhanced Extrude
Maya Artisan
❖ Artisan’s natural brush interface to interactivity sculpt and Paint attributes.
Deformation Tools
❖ Lattices
❖ Sculpt Object
❖ Wires
Dynamics
❖ Rigid Body Dynamics
❖ Realistic high speed simulation of multiple rigid objects

Software Particle Rendering
Hardware Rendering
Maya Paint Effects using 3D
studio Paint
❖ Powerful Painting Techniques
❖ Create jungles of trees and plants
❖ Flowing hair
❖ Flickering flames
❖ And many more
❖ Paint Effects brushes
❖ Natural Media Brushes
❖ Effects Brushes
❖ Brush Attributes
❖ Rendering Paint Effects
Character Animation
❖ Pose Based Characters
❖ Skeletons and Inverse Kinematics (IK)
❖ Skinning
Maya Cloth
❖ Create any Fashion in any Fabric
❖ Animate any Fabric object
❖ Unique Solver
❖ Integration with Maya

Maya Fur
❖ Artisan User Interface
❖ Using Artisan to paint fur
❖ Using the Artisan brush to comb the
hair
❖ Multiple Fur Type
❖ Using Multiple fur types
❖ Assigning Attributes to fur
❖ Applying Texture on the fur
❖ Animating Fur
❖ Fur Rendering