The Greatness of Maya

# 1 07-11-2007 , 05:38 PM

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Hi everyone. I am very much a newbie on Maya. I have just installed the program and looked around a little.
Everything looks overwhelming, I have no idea were to start or anything. Does anyone have any tips or some tutorial pages for a newbie such as me?
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# 2 07-11-2007 , 05:54 PM

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Theres alwasy the help files, theres some great tutorials in there, also on start up theres some little videos that are worth watching just to get you going.

Then theres always the free tutorials on here, the cartoon dog and the free human model that will get you going.

Hope toy see some of your works on here!

Good luck and have fun!

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# 3 07-11-2007 , 06:11 PM

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Ah yeah, that’s right. Thanks gster.
Love the controls in this program, doesn't take to much time to master. But though, Maya seams pretty complex. How long will it take to lets say make a decent human head?

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# 4 07-11-2007 , 06:34 PM

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hmmm, thats a big question, if youve got some anatomy/art experiance of drawing then it would make it easier.

I remember that I tried a head no long after I started and it was horrible! I left it for a while modleing "solid" objects getting used to topology and constructing clean meshes before attempting making a realistic head.

You need to understand topology nad edge loops etc as well as having a clean, organised mesh, not to mention UV mapping and texturing when it comes to that. As it helps if you wanted to animate it. Theres lots of help on the net with regards to topology (have a look in the WIP thread theres a topology thread there) and tutorials on modelign a head.

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# 5 07-11-2007 , 06:54 PM

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Yeah I have some experience with both drawing and modeling. (Been playing with free 3d software for a couple of years).
But is it possible to learn the basics of Maya in about 6 months?

Yeah I've been looking around the forum. There is some pretty amazing stuff there. It is mad what you can do now days.

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# 6 07-11-2007 , 07:47 PM

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Yep,I learnt the basics of maya, including modelling, texturing, rendering, animation and some basic particle stuff over the space of a couple of months, using mostly the help files and the freebie tutorials dotted around the web.

As long as you stick with it you should be fine, especially as you have experience with other 3d software, by the way, which software have you used before?

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# 7 07-11-2007 , 07:54 PM

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Okay, that’s great. Going to apply for a school in 6 months were I need a basic knowledge of modeling. Just so it's not impossible to learn it in such a short time. I am pretty dedicated so it will probably go fine.

The software I used was "Anim8or" not the best 3d program ever but it's lot of fun.

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# 8 08-11-2007 , 12:00 AM

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Yea there was someone on SM that learned maya pretty well in 6 months... forgot his name.

but anyways when i started about 1.7 years ago i took this tutoral that help my modeling a ton https://www.simplymaya.com/movie_page...tml?tut_id=129

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# 9 08-11-2007 , 12:52 AM

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you culd get a ton of help usg a search engine

hi fellow mayan,
tis good you are showing such big interest in maya. i'm just a newbie like you, only perhaps i've been studying it for just about a year now. but i keep learning so many new things everyday that i still consider myself a newbie (an old newbie perhaps).

well, i think that you could get to a lot of maya tutorial sites if you used a search engine such as google, and then you typed in a phrase like "maya tutorials", "free maya books", or something.
that way, you get to choose from a host of different learning materials available.
using search engines have really helped me along the way to learning maya till now,

needless to say that i seem to be having my first difficulty finding a structural analysis plugin for maya right now(cs-fem or any other plugin for that purpose) using a search engine. i get the results alright from the search, but it seems the follow up links do not work any longer.

if you finish using the search engine for your searches, you could try to help me on my search as well....an old newbie like me could also use some help from other newbies or advanced maya learners as well, you know.

anyway, you could email me at any time, and if i have found any useful help tutorials, i would let you know. the address is jacobtwumasi@yahoo.com.

good luck...maya is great indeed. that i can say for cetain!!

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