Introduction of Autodesk Maya, Basic Interface of Maya

■ Understanding the Maya interface ■ Setting up files and Maya projects ■ Configuring viewports ■ Customizing the interface ■ Navigating the Maya workspace ■ Using the hotbox and marking menus ■ Selecting objects ■ Using the Move tool ■ Rotating and scaling objects ■ Working with pivots ■ Understanding the Channel Box ■ The Attribute Editor

Maya Scenes ■ Organizing Maya Scenes ■ Working with the Outliner ■ Dealing with hierarchies ■ Object groups ■ Exploring Hypergraph ■ Hiding and showing objects ■ Working with layers ■ Working with selection masks

Working with Polygons ■ Creating Polygonal Models ■ Differences between NURBS and polys ■ Selecting polygonal components ■ Using Soft Select and reflection ■ Sculpting with the Sculpt tool ■ The Combine and Separate commands ■ Working with subdivision surfaces

Working with Meshes ■ Working with edge loops ■ Using Edge Flow for smooth geometry ■ Reorienting geometry using Spin Edge ■ Drawing detail with the Connect tool ■ Mirroring geometry ■ Modeling with nonlinear deformers ■ Modeling with lattices

NURBS-based Modelling ■ An Introduction to NURBS modeling and editing ■ Using NURBS primitives ■ The NURBS curve tools ■ Using NURBS Revolve

Cleaning up NURBS ■ Refining NURBS Models ■ Extracting NURBS curves from surfaces ■ Open/ Close curves and surfaces ■ Creating curves on a surface ■ Projecting curves on surfaces ■ Trimming NURBS surfaces ■ Using fillets to connect surfaces ■ Converting NURBS to polygons

Using Materials ■ Creating Materials ■ Overview of Maya renderers ■ The basics of materials ■ Creating and applying maps ■ Using bitmaps as texture ■ Working with the Hypershade window ■ Using the Ramp material ■ Displacement and bump maps ■ Mental ray materials

Using Textures ■ Applying Textures ■ Texture mapping ■ Projecting textures on surfaces ■ Applying multiple materials ■ UV mapping ■ The UV Texture Editor

Rendering your Scene ■ Render Settings ■ Lights and lighting types ■ Rendering shadows ■ Camera basics ■ Depth of field ■ Motion Blur ■ Reflections and refractions ■ Matching lights and shadows to images ■ Batch rendering

Scooter modeling using polygon

unwrapping and texturing Scooter

Adding materials to the scooter and rendering using lights