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Table Of Contents

Contents
Overview
- Introduction
- About the Getting Started lessons
- Before you begin
- Installing Maya
- Conventions used in the lessons
- Using the lesson files
- Using the Maya Help
- Additional learning resources
- Restoring default user settings
Maya Basics
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: The Maya user interface
- Lesson 2: Creating, manipulating, and viewing objects
- Lesson 3: Viewing the Maya 3D scene
- Lesson 4: Components and attributes
Polygonal Modeling
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lesson
- Lesson 1: Modeling a polygonal mesh
- Lesson 2: Sculpting a polygon mesh
NURBS Modeling
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Revolving a curve to create a surface
- Lesson 2: Sculpting a NURBS surface
- Lesson 3: Lofting curves to create a surface
Subdivision Surfaces
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lesson
- Lesson 1: Modeling a subdivision surface
Animation
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Keyframes and the Graph Editor
- Lesson 2: Set Driven Key
- Lesson 3: Path animation
- Lesson 4: Nonlinear animation with Trax
- Lesson 5: Inverse kinematics
Character Setup
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Skeletons and kinematics
- Lesson 2: Smooth skinning
- Lesson 3: Cluster and blend shape deformers
Polygon Texturing
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lesson
- Lesson 1: UV texture mapping
- Lesson 2: UV unfolding
- Lesson 3: Normal mapping
Rendering
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Rendering a scene
- Lesson 2: Shading surfaces
- Lesson 3: Lights, shadows, and cameras
- Lesson 4: Global Illumination
- Lesson 5: Caustics
Dynamics
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Particles, emitters, and fields
- Lesson 2: Rigid bodies and constraints
Painting
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Painting in 2D using Paint Effects
- Lesson 2: Painting in 3D using Paint Effects
- Lesson 3: Painting textures on surfaces
Expressions
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Creating a simple expression
- Lesson 2: Conditional expressions
- Lesson 3: Controlling particle attributes
Scripting in Maya
- Introduction
- Some basic concepts
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Commands in MEL
- Lesson 2: Saving scripts to the Shelf
- Lesson 3: Using Variables in MEL
- Lesson 4: User interface creation and procedures
- Lesson 5: Using Python in Maya
Assets
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Setting up an asset
- Lesson 2: Using assets in a scene
Hair
- Introduction
- About hair simulation
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Creating a basic hairstyle
- Lesson 2: Creating a dynamic non-hair simulation
Fluid Effects
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Creating a dynamic 2D fluid effect
- Lesson 2: Creating a non-dynamic 3D fluid effect
- Lesson 3: Creating a dynamic 3D effect
- Lesson 4: Creating an ocean effect
Fur
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Assigning a fur description
- Lesson 2: Rendering fur
nCloth
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Creating nCloth collisions
- Lesson 2: Creating nCloth constraints
- Lesson 3: Creating nCloth Clothing
nParticles
- Introduction
- Preparing for the tutorials
- Lesson 1: Creating nParticles
- Lesson 2: Creating a smoke simulation with nParticles
- Lesson 3: Creating a liquid simulation with nParticles
Live
- Introduction
- About Live
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson setup
- Lesson 1: Track and solve
- Lesson 2: Solving with survey data
Index

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