Autodesk^® Maya ^® 2009, commonly termed as Maya is high end 3-D revolutionary software that stands alone among the other 3-D software packages with its breath taking capabilities. Maya owes high priority among top production companies, gaming industries and with much more media assets from the time it’s been released. With cutting edge 3-D tools for modeling, texturing, rigging and animation, visual effects it brings in the realistic and unmatched digital imagery to the creators.

Chapter 1: Author Mentoring

• Lesson 1.1: Audience for this course
• Lesson 1.2: Employment Opportunities & Job Roles
• Lesson 1.3: Pre-requisite Knowledge and Skills

Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Maya

• Lesson 2.1: History of Maya
• Lesson 2.2: What is Maya?
• Lesson 2.3: Why you Learn Maya?
• Lesson 2.4: Course Objective
• Lesson 2.5: Checklist for Installation

Chapter 3: Elements of Maya

• Lesson 3.1: Modelling in Maya
• Lesson 3.2: Texturing in Maya
• Lesson 3.3: Lighting in Maya
• Lesson 3.4: Animation in Maya

Chapter 4: Introduction to Maya

• Lesson 4.1: How to Open Maya 2009?
• Lesson 4.2: Where to Save a File?
• Lesson 4.3: How to Create Project?
• Lesson 4.4: Saving Scene in Project

Chapter 5: Understanding Maya Interface

• Lesson 5.1: Maya’s Interface
• Lesson 5.2: Interface Elements and Tear off Menus
• Lesson 5.3: User Interface Elements - Status Line
• Lesson 5.4: User Interface Elements - The Shelf
• Lesson 5.5: Customizing Shelf
• Lesson 5.6: Remaining Interface Elements
• Lesson 5.7: 3-D Co-Ordinates
• Lesson 5.8: Using the Three Point Mouse
• Lesson 5.9: View Port Navigation
• Lesson 5.10: View Cube
• Lesson 5.11: Customizing Workspace

Chapter 6: Working with Maya Objects

• Lesson 6.1: An Overview of Maya Objects
• Lesson 6.2 : Creating Primitives
• Lesson 6.3 : Viewing Objects
• Lesson 6.4 : Translating objects
• Lesson 6.5 : Transforming Objects - Rotate and Scale
• Lesson 6.6 : Channel Box
• Lesson 6.7 : Modifying Objects with Channel Box
• Lesson 6.8 : Organizing Objects with Layers
• Lesson 6.9 : Manipulating Objects through Layer Editor
• Lesson 6.10 : Attribute Editor
• Lesson 6.11 : Creating Objects with History
• Lesson 6.12 : Manipulating Pivots

Chapter 7 : Working with Groups and Hierarchies

• Lesson 7.1 : Duplicating Objects
• Lesson 7.2 : Transforming Duplicates
• Lesson 7.3 : Grouping Objects
• Lesson 7.4 : Parenting Objects
• Lesson 7.5 : Naming and Renaming Objects
• Lesson 7.6 : Hypergraph: Hierarchy and Connections
• Lesson 7.7 : Hot Box Controls
• Lesson 7.8 : Marking Menus

Chapter 8 : All about Polygons

• Lesson 8.1 : Creating Polygon Primitives
• Lesson 8.2 : Working with Poly Components
• Lesson 8.3 : Create Polygon tool, Combine, Separate and Booleans
• Lesson 8.4 : Mirroring Geometries
• Lesson 8.5 : Working with Polygonal Edges
• Lesson 8.6 : Adding Divisions to Faces
• Lesson 8.7 : Working with Polygonal Faces
• Lesson 8.8 : Attaching and Detaching Poly Components
• Lesson 8.9 : Filling and Beveling Polygons

Chapter 9 : Intro to Curves

• Lesson 9.1 : An Overview of NURBS
• Lesson 9.2 : Creating Curves with Degrees
• Lesson 9.3 : Seams and Spans
• Lesson 9.4 : Forms of Curves
• Lesson 9.5 : Working with Curves
• Lesson 9.6 : Align, Attach Curves
• Lesson 9.7 : Cut, Cluster Curves

Chapter 10 : Working with Surfaces

• Lesson 10.1 : Profile and Path curves
• Lesson 10.2 : Revolving Surfaces
• Lesson 10.3 : Filling Boundary Curves with Surfaces
• Lesson 10.4 : Bevel and Bevel Plus
• Lesson 10.5 : All about NURBS Surfaces
• Lesson 10.6 : NURBS Object Parameterization
• Lesson 10.7 : Manipulating NURBS Objects
• Lesson 10.8 : Filling Surfaces
• Lesson 10.9 : Trimming Surfaces

Chapter 11 : Texturing

• Lesson 11.1 : An Overview of Shaders
• Lesson 11.2 : The Hypershade Editor Window
• Lesson 11.3 : Working with the Hypershade Editor Window
• Lesson 11.4 : Working with the Shaders
• Lesson 11.5 : Common Material Attributes of the Shaders
• Lesson 11.6 : Unique Properties of Anisotropic, Lambert Shaders
• Lesson 11.7 : Unique properties of Blinn, Phong, Phong-E
• Lesson 11.8 : Coloring Objects with 2-D Textures
• Lesson 11.9 : Working with 2-D Texture Nodes
• Lesson 11.10 : Bump Mapping
• Lesson 11.11 : Coloring Objects with 3-D Textures
• Lesson 11.12 : Projecting 3-D Textures over Objects
• Lesson 11.13 : Mapping Textures with U.V Texture Editor

Chapter 12 : Lighting

• Lesson 12.1 : Introduction to Lights
• Lesson 12.2 : Behaviour of Lights
• Lesson 12.3 : Common Properties of Lights
• 12.4 : Unique Properties of Point and Ambience Lights
• Lesson 12.5 : Unique Properties of Directional and Area Light
• Lesson 12.6 : Working with the Volume Light
• Lesson 12.7 : Working with the Spot Light
• Lesson 12.8 : Amazing Spot Light
• Lesson 12.9 : Working with the Areas of Spotlight
• Lesson 12.10 : Working with Shadows
• Lesson 12.11 : Optical FX
• Lesson 12.12 : Creating Fogs with Light
• Lesson 12.13 : Light Image
• Lesson 12.14: Light Linking/Light Breaking

Chapter 13: Animation

• Lesson 13.1: Time Line essentials and Range Slider
• Lesson 13.2: Setting Keys
• Lesson 13.3: Playback Controls
• Lesson 13.4: Working with Animation Preferences
• Lesson 13.5: Editing Keys in Time Line
• Lesson 13.6: Introduction to Graph Editor
• Lesson 13.7: Working with F-Curves and its Tangents
• Lesson 13.8: Looping Animations
• Lesson 13.9: Ghosting and Creating Motion Trail
• Lesson 13.10: Creating Character Sets for Non-Linear Animation
• Lesson 13.11: Working with Animation Clips
• Lesson 13.12: Timing with Dope Sheet
• Lesson 13.13: Play Blasting Animations

Chapter 14: Rendering

• Lesson 14.1: Changing Renderers in Maya
• Lesson 14.2: An Overview of Raytrace
• Lesson 14.3: Mental Ray Rendering
• Lesson 14.4: Rendering with Global Illumination
• Lesson 14.5: Moving with Cameras
• Lesson 14.6: Cameras and its Attributes
• Lesson 14.7: Depth of Field
• Lesson 14.8: Motion Blur