Model a House in Maya, For Beginners

Show notes: Model your first scene. Create a house, road, tree, anything you can imagine. Have fun with Maya. Create a new project. Use the scale tool. Shortcut hot keys. the QWERTY keys. Toolbar. Change the display. Camera attribute editor. Near clip plane and far clip plane. Channel box. Why objects disappear from view. Scale tool. R for scale tool. Create a roof. Move tool. Chimney. W for move tool. Make a door. View panels. Perspective view. Find what works best for you. Shape a walkway. What is in the channel box? Changing rotate from channel box. Make a road. Entry level Maya. Model a fence. Window. Frame the object you are working on. Make a fence post. Using basic shapes to make more complex shapes. Sections of a fence. Good for students. Maya walk through tour. Save file. Underscore on naming titles.

Basic Introduction to Creating an Outdoor Scene in Maya

Show notes: Using primitives to model in Maya. Using the cone primitive. Scale. Duplicate. Group objects. Setting the ground plane. How to zoom in on the object you want to work on. Modeling a scene. Make landscape. Outdoor scene. Modeling land elements. Starting to add colors. Intro to common attributes to materials. Name your materials. Name your colors. How to temporarily get rid of the manipulator handle to get it out of the way (press [q].) Tips on moving around the scene. These videos are entry level and designed to make it easy and fun to start learning Maya. They provide the most basic, over-all knowledge to be added to as the student progresses.