In this course we will cover tools and techniques for curve-based facial rigging in Maya.

PoserFusion plug-ins are perfect for industrial and architectural design, pre-visualization, theatrical set design, gaming prototype development, storyboarding, illustration and animation. PoserFusion will enable you to add 3D Poser characters to any project, saving you time and resources. The family of PoserFusion plug-ins transform Poser Pro 2012 into a character animation solution, creating a pipeline that will transport Poser scenes into 3ds Max, Maya, CINEMA 4D and LightWave. PoserFusion will allow you to host and render full Poser scenes, including all their 3D elements such as clothing and hair within these powerful pro applications. Integrate either static or animated Poser figures with Vertex Weight Map rigging and dynamics that are fully textured and posable, with full morph targets for facial expression and body sculpting morphs.

Create audience excitement and interactive experiences. Learn practical workflows to making stereoscopic 3D imagery with Maya 2009 and gain total control over the camera, characters, and environments to create one of the most powerful effects in cinema. Contains over 2 hours of project-based training and step-by-step examples for any artist.

Created by experienced animator Jason Schleifer, this series is your solution to creating the most effective and usable animation rigs whether you are starting out or have been building rigs for years. Created for every level rigger, this course will teach you how to analyze a situation and come up with a solution that will solve the problem for the animator. You will learn to balance functionality, speed, and technique. In short, Autodesk Maya Techniques - Animator Friendly Rigging will provide you with a solid workflow and rules to follow to ensure a proper animation rig for almost any situation.

In this course we will use Maya to create a game-type, low-resolution character from a highly detailed ZBrush model.

Autodesk Maya 2011 software features powerful new tools for helping create and repurpose character animation: enhanced skinning capabilities and non destructive live motion retargeting. Its new 3D Editorial timeline helps accelerate pre-visualization and virtual movie-making workflows, while an invigorated user interface helps improve artists efficiency and creativity. Maya 2011 addresses todays demanding production requirements with its high-performance viewport display of large scenes, integrated color management, scene segmentation, improved rotoscoping, and new UI toolkit. With support for 64-bit as Windows operating systems, Maya is now more accessible than ever, offering artists an end-to-end creative workflow at exceptional value.

In this course we will cover many of the methods for working between ZBrush 4 and Maya.

Here’s the first update for Autodesk Maya 2011.

Here’s the first update for Autodesk Maya 2011. Autodesk Maya 2011 software features powerful new tools for helping create and repurpose character animation: enhanced skinning capabilities and non-destructive live motion retargeting. Its new 3D Editorial timeline helps accelerate pre-visualization and virtual movie-making workflows, while an invigorated user interface helps improve artists efficiency and creativity.

Autodesk Maya 3D animation software delivers an end-to-end creative workflow with comprehensive tools for animation, modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, matchmoving, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform. Whether you work in film, games, television, advertising, publishing, or graphic design, Maya offers state-of-the-art toolsets, combined into a single affordable offering designed to help meet todays demanding production requirements. Autodesk Maya 2012 delivers new toolsets for previsualization and game prototyping, extended simulation capabilities, and improved pipeline integration.

Autodesk Maya offers a skilled cross cutting of the creative process with a complete set of tools for 3D animation, modeling, simulations, and visual effects, rendering, compositing and motion tracking based on easily extensible platform. All of these capabilities in a single application of exceptional value for specialists in computer graphics. The new version improved user interface, procedures, character animation and interaction with the viewport, adds new features 3D editing, built in color management.