Master the fundamentals of Maya for game asset creation, from modeling to texturing. Perfect for beginners eager to learn essential techniques in game design.
This course is all about diving into Maya for absolute beginners, focusing on game assets. You'll learn the ropes of modeling, unwrapping, and basic texturing while creating your very own military radio prop. It's a fun way to get started with game design!
Learn the basics of Maya with a focus on game assets! We'll go from the very beginning - to making our first prop!
In this Complete Beginner's course, we cover the absolute basics of getting you started using Maya with a focus on games, starting from the absolute first time opening the software - all the way through modeling, unwrapping, and texturing your first game asset! We'll start off with some basic introductions to the UI and software, and dive right in to many of the common tools you'll need for game asset modeling.
"Learn by doing" as we take you through the complete process of modeling our military style radio prop, unwrap the asset, and cover basic texturing techniques for the asset. If you've ever wanted to learn the important features of Maya for Games, but weren't sure where to go, this course has you covered!
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About the Instructor:
Justin Harrison is a Character and Technical Animator with more than 7 years experience in the game development industry. Currently, he is working for Molten Games in Del Mar, CA on an unannounced title. Previously he has worked for for both Activision and Sony on titles such as The Bourne Conspiracy, Ghostbusters: The Game, as well as Transformers: War for Cybertron to name a few. Justin holds a BFA in Digital Art and Animation from the College for Creative Studies, and has a generalist skill set that ranges from artistic modeling and asset creation, to motion capture and keyframe animation, to technical rigging and character setup.
Learn the basics of Maya from the ground up
Learn the basics of using Maya for making game assets
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3dmotive is High Quality 3d and Game Art Training by Industry Pros! Whether you are brand new to the world of Game Art, 3d, Architecture or Film - or maybe just interested in brushing up your techniques for intermediate or advanced levels of 3d with a focus on video games, 3dmotive is your one-stop-shop for all your 3d and Game...
So far, I'm just in the first video, but it's already been insanely informative. I'm very happy I got this. I was so intimidated when I first tried, but this has made it seem possible to learn.
Excellent overview, perfect pace for the first four of five sections with clarity of concepts.
For me, the UV unwrapping sections ended up as more of an intermediate level exercise-- it was still helpful as an introduction, but I only watched instead of actually performing each of the sections as the pace seemed to quicken considerably.
Still five stars without a doubt, as the author explains why each of the exercises are necessary.
This course is a relatively old course and demos how to use Maya 2012. Still, this course holds up pretty well with most of the essential basics. Not too much has changed, but I will admit that I'm learning how to use the after-2012-Maya tools that make some of the modelling / unwrapping process easier compared to the process shown in this course. The course goes over the basics of all the tools and the interface of Maya. The instructor even demonstrates how to use some of the tools even he admits he doesn't like to use, which is really nice. The course goes over the basic of model creating, UV editing and some texturing. There are files given with the course to do some hands on 3D modelling and follow along with the instructor. Even though this is a great course, I'm only giving it a 4.5/5 because I feel like the instructor goes too fast sometimes with the hands on work. I felt like I was kind of struggling to keep up with his pace as a complete beginner. Still a great course though! I definitely recommend it.
i like the way he teachs. Fast and enough examples
There is a lot of showing me the information to being with, but I am doing very little and therefore I am finding it very difficult to maintain all this information.
I felt that this was more intermediate and less beginner, there were some basics that were glossed over.
However did give me confidence to go ahead and try some stuff in the modelling area
Really easy to follow. But I feel a lot of adjustments were done off camera. Uving sucks we could have use Keyshot or some other utility for this process. For whet ever reason unwrapping I got a lot more items that did not make sense. but this covers a lot of principals of modeling to get a nobbie running in 3D. I still found this course valuable and easy to follow, hence, the five stars. JR
Seems a little hectic at the moment. Would like to dive straight in and open a project.
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Marie B.
the sample object was quite 'complex' for a beginners course, a few hints in advance to not overcomplicate the own sample :D would have been appreciated.. but in fact, an exciting and very good introduction to modelling in Maya. I can't wait to book another 3dmotive course! You're amazing!