Private Autodesk Maya training tailored to your team

Interface, navigation and project management

• Understand workspaces and main menus
• Navigate cameras and views
• Create and set a Maya project
• Use Outliner and Channel Box
• Manage transforms and pivots
• Adopt file and naming conventions

Essential polygon modeling

• Create primitives and basic shapes
• Use extrude, bevel and insert edge loop
• Work in vertex, edge and face modes
• Use symmetry and duplicate
• Control proportions with references
• Build a clean editable object

Topology, subdivision and model finishing

• Understand edge flow and mesh density
• Use subdivision in a controlled way
• Fix normals and problematic geometry
• Create detail without unnecessary complexity
• Prepare topology for deformation
• Clean the model before texturing

UVs and texture preparation

• Understand projections and UV shells
• Create seams and unwrap
• Optimize UV orientation and space
• Avoid visible stretching
• Prepare multiple materials or UDIMs when needed
• Export a clean UV layout

Materials, textures and Arnold lighting

• Create Standard Surface materials
• Connect colour, roughness and normal textures
• Use Hypershade efficiently
• Create simple studio lighting
• Use HDRI and Skydome
• Validate materials with Arnold RenderView

Basic rigging and controls

• Understand joints and hierarchies
• Create a simple joint chain
• Bind a mesh with skinning
• Correct basic skin weights
• Create simple controls
• Test deformations before animation

Animation, keyframes and Graph Editor

• Create and edit keyframes
• Understand timing, spacing and interpolation
• Use Graph Editor
• Create simple cycles
• Animate objects and cameras
• Clean up animation for delivery

Cameras, Arnold rendering and output

• Create and frame cameras
• Manage focal length and depth of field
• Configure Arnold sampling
• Reduce noise and render time
• Set Render Settings and resolution
• Export clean images or sequences

Basic simulation and visual effects

• Understand available effects options
• Create a simple cloth or dynamics simulation
• Cache a simulation
• Adjust collisions and main parameters
• Integrate an effect into a scene
• Avoid unnecessarily complex simulations

Pipeline, USD, exchange and optimization

• Organize scenes, references and assets
• Import and export FBX or common formats
• Understand USD use in a pipeline
• Clean history and unnecessary data
• Reduce weight and dependencies
• Prepare a documented handoff without custom scripting

Interface, navigation and project management

Essential polygon modeling

Topology, subdivision and model finishing

UVs and texture preparation

Materials, textures and Arnold lighting

Basic rigging and controls

UVs and texture preparation

Materials, textures and Arnold lighting

Cameras, Arnold rendering and output

Basic simulation and visual effects