Motion Design School – Maya Modeling Essentials (FULL) Free Download

Modeling Essentials
in Autodesk Maya

A structured online course on basic Maya modeling tools and Substance Painter texturing workflow from CG industry veterans. Start your 3D artist’s career NOW!

Modeling is an essential part of the 3D industry. You can not imagine any animated movie or video game without 3D models. Characters, props, environment, almost every idea needs to be represented as a 3D model either fully or partially. 3D is a versatile tool that will come in handy for any contemporary artist. But where to start? It`s much better to begin your 3D artist’s journey from tweaking some polygons and getting knowledge about 3D in a nutshell. In this course you will start from creating a simple model of a longboard in Maya and then learn how to texture it in Substance Painter right away. After that, we’ll show you the ropes on a simple example. There is a real challenge for you: you will need to create full a 3D hard surface character from our animated movie that we’ve made for this course!

Course Curriculum

The course is designed to effectively introduce you to the basic stages of working with 3D modelling, even if you have never done this before.

Section #1

Intro

Interface navigation and standard Maya tools.

Section #2

Modeling Basics

Maya basic modeling tools.
Learning the polygonal modeling process on the examples of simple objects.

Section #3

Hardsurface Modeling

Creating a longboard model. Mastering creating the correct topology.

creating a basic object form;
objects grouping;
adding details to a grid for smoothing;
creating the final geometry.

Section #4

UV Unwrap

Creating a UV map of a model in Maya. Preparing a model for texturing.

Section #5

Texturing

Creating textures. Basic rendering in Substance Painter.

Section #6

Introduction to advanced modeling

creating the base concept, development of the idea;
pre-modeling preparation;
preparation of references;
working out the masses and proportions.

Section #7

Increasing the geometry detailing

work with deformers;
Boolean operations. Pros and cons;
work with KitBash;
creating a simple animation for checking the model functionality.

Section #8

Mesh modeling using clones

What mesh is and how to use it for modeling covered on the example of the robot’s spine and eyes.
Finishing up the scene.

Section #9

Preparing UV for the final model

Subdivision of geometry into logical groups;
Creating UVs;
UV packing using UDIM.

Section #10

Introduction to Substance Painter

Key aspects of texturing for PBR shading;
Textures baking;
Texturing methods of complex objects.

Section #11

Preparing the scene for presentation

camera and animation;
creating an expressive pose;
final shaders setup;
color and light as a composition method;
introduction to Arnold renderer.

Frequently asked questions

Just fine! This course will be very useful for newcomers who want to start their career in CG.

We`ll work with the following software:

No, there’s no need, as all the software you need has a student license or trials.

Up to 1 month. This is an online course so you can take your time with lessons and practice tasks.

If no presale or discount activities are happening, you can contact us to receive a $50-off coupon. We provide coupons for countries with not-so-good exchange rates and for students.

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If you’re disappointed for whatever reason, you’ll get every cent back within 14 days after the purchase. Whether you select to complete the purchase in a single or in several payments.

Note that it only applies to purchases without a discount. So if you would like to use a discount coupon or complete a purchase of several products with a discount, you will be not eligible for the refund.

Yes, all the artwork you create on the course belongs to you. You can share and tweet and dribbble whatever animation you create. We would be grateful if you mention our school while sharing, we have @motiondesignschool accounts almost on every network.

This course has subtitles, which makes the content easier for understanding and lets you check the unknown words in the dictionary, if needed.