Certificate in Maya and 3-D Studio Max (CM3D)

1. Maya : Interface Introduction

2. Maya: Animation in Maya

• Previewing animation, Playback
• Ghosting animated objects
• Motion Trails, Playblast, Muting animation
• Adding sound to your animation, Importing sound, Baking simulations
• Animation Snapshot and Animated Sweep
• Sound File, Start Time, Playblast, Working Units (Time)
• Timeline, Playback Start/End, Animation Start/End, Height, Key Ticks, Timecode
• Snapping, Timecode Offset, Playback (Update View), Active
• Repeat on Hold, Repeat Size, Playblast
• Use contiguous audio files with animation
• Keys clipboard, Driven keys, Breakdowns, Inbetweens
• Nonlinear animation, The Trax Editor
• Character Mapper, Visor, Outliner, Clip Library, Create clips

3. Maya: Using Skeletons

• Using skeletons
• Forward Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, Blending 1K and FK
• Skinning your character, Smooth Skinning, Rigid Skinning, Indirect skinning
• Creating deformation effects, Deformers as modeling tools
• Point constraints, Orient constraints, Parent constraints, Scale constraints
• Character sets, Skeletons, Skeleton components, Joints and bones
• Create a joint chain with an IK handle, Label the skeleton's joints
• Skinning, Deformable objects and skin objects
• Double transformation effects, Point tweaking skinned objects
• Smooth skin point weights, Weighting based on skeleton hierarchy

4. Maya: Dynamics

• Particles
• Emittersm, Create emitters, Sprites
• Spheres, To set Spheres render type, Blobby surface, Fields, Stand-alone fields
• Volume fields, Air field, Effects, Smoke effects, Animating with dynamics
• Dynamic relationship editor

5. 3-D Studio Max

• Create Objects
• Lights and Cameras, Materials and Effects, Keyframe Animation
• Procedural Simulations, Constraints and Controllers
• Animation Modifiers, Camera Animation, Rendering
• The Viewports, Animation playback controls, Keyframe animation controls
• Time slider, Track bar, Title bar, Menu bar, Tab Panel, Main Toolbar, Undo and Redo
• Link Tools, Selection Tools, Crossing/Window Selection
• Manipulate Mode, Select and Transform Tools, Reference Coordinate System
• Axis constraints toolbar, Array Flyout, Named Selection Sets
• Mirror, Align Flyout, Track View-Curve Editor, Schematic View
• Material Editor, Rendering Tools, Customizing the User Interface
• Modeling the Planets
• Bouncing a Ball
• Creating a Leg with Bones, Skin and Flex Modifiers
• Using Particle Effects to Model Smoke, Water, and More
• Adding Camera Shake, Using Camera Match, Preparing the Scene, Basic Steps
• Placing 3D Camera Points, Creating Stand-in Geometry, Placing CamPoints
• Setting up a rendering background
• Assigning 2D Camera Screen Points, Assigning the first screen point
• Using Camera Tracker
• Using the RAM Player
• Saving your work, Creating the matching camera
• Move Smoothing and Compositing