Introduction To Maya - 1

Introduction To Maya Interface:

• Types of Viewports:
• Front
• Side
• Top
• Perspective
• Note: The 1st 3 Viewports are also known as Orthographic View
• Basic Polygon Tools:
• Cylinder
• Torus
• Sphere
• Cube
• Use of Boolean Tool – Union, Difference & Intersection.

Research: Ways to create Object (With/Without Interactive Creation)

• Interactive Creation – helps to create an object (Polygon, Nurbs or Sub-divs) from scratch
• Non Interactive Creation – gives a ready-made object in the viewport at 0,0,0.

Important Notes:

• Hold V to snap the object to vertices.
• Hold X to snap the object to the grid
• Shift+D duplicates the object with the offset.
• Press W for Translating an object
• Press R for Scaling an object
• Press E for Rotating an object
• Press Q to just select the object.
• Press F to zoom in on an object/edge/vertices/face
• Press Insert to shift the pivot of an object.
• Press P  to Parent – Child objects. (see Advance Maya – Rigging Notes)
• Press S to set Key for animation
• Preferences option can be used to adjust the playback time of the Time Slider.
• Component Mode is same as selecting Vertices of an object.

Exercise 2:

Create a Toy Train using the Basic Polygon Tools.
Animate it to make it move.

MAYA Project Name: Exercise 2

File Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?1nub16gsl8expp7

Tools Used:

• Polygon Tools
• Boolean – Difference
• Bevel
• Smooth Polygon