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| Mastering Maya the Fundamentals | 
 enlarge | From: 3D BUZZ INC.
Category: Software
Buy New: $119.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 12428
Format: Dvd-rom
Media: DVD-ROM
UPC: 689076890960
ASIN: B000PKZUA0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New in package
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| Features:
| • | 82 hours of content, covering nearly 400 separate video lectures! | | • | Easy-to-follow lecture makes Maya accessible to the complete beginner! | | • | Complete three professional-quality projects from start to finish! | | • | Learn how to create 3D animations at your own pace from the comfort of your own home! | | • | Created using Maya version 6.5. Note: Versions 8+ have a slightly different user interface! |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This is quite simply the most comprehensive set of Maya training DVDs available, and exclusively created by 3D Buzz. It has been carefully structured to transform even the complete beginner into an intermediate to advanced Maya user. Covering three projects from start to finish, 'Mastering Maya: The Fundamentals' is your key to becoming a true Maya master. From beginner to expert, this single product will push your education further than any other Maya training available today. BONUS CONTENT - Advanced TechniquesThis highly technical section will also discuss the variety of utility nodes found within Maya, a part of the application that was designed to allow various controls of shading and texturing networks. Through a series of detailed lectures, you will see how these nodes can also be applied in a variety of other circumstances, allowing you to bypass a great deal of overhead on your computer as you make adjustments to any aspect of your scene, from controlling motion on objects to crating floor-contact systems for walking characters and so much more! * These videos were created using Maya 6.5. We cannot officially support versions higher than Maya 6.5 with this product.These videos are provided under a non-transferable license and cannot be resold or redistributed.These videos are presented on a DVD-ROM that is NOT viewable in your home entertainment DVD player!The videos must be played on a home computer and require a media player software that supports the XviD codec, which must be installed to watch the videos.Each video on the discs is encoded with a faint non-obtrusive watermark containing your name and address. These videos may be followed using the trial version of the software, known as the Maya Personal Learning Edition (PLE). However, there are slight differences between the PLE and the commercial version used in the videos. These inconsistencies do not detract from the learning experience. We Do Not Ship to PO Boxes or Universities.
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| Customer Reviews:
The Best Maya/3D Training Resource on the Market? July 23, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This has been a hot issue with a lot of 3D Training material out there. Who has the best learning method and the most efficient approach. Some claimed to be the best when their videos are nothing but creating a cube, showing the extrude tool, extruding a few times, then saying "Continue to extrude and..." then a fade out to a highly detailed Gollum face - with no direction and no instructions on the workflow and the purpose of the tools.
I've been following 3DBuzz for a while. I loved their free learning videos that they had (and still have) on their Website. When they announced their masteringMaya: The Fundamentals class and the DVD and we had to pay for it, a lot of 3DBuzz fans were a little uncomfortable with it. Heck, some said that they'll just download the free VTMs (Video Training Modules) and get the same thing... those people were proven wrong very quickly.
Soon after the first class (out of three) started , it then became apparent that the masteringMaya: The Fundamentals was at a whole new level of what 3DBuzz had done in the past. They were covering a very complex application and workflow through video, from beginner to the required skills needed to be PROFICIENT with the application. That's what Fundamentals mean. It's not a beginner course, nor is it an advanced course. It gets you up to speed of whatever level of skills you have to a proficient user of Maya.
Here's a little overview of the training. It starts with an introduction of what is Maya, 2D vs 3D, and then a pretty detailed overview of the Maya interface. There are three projects with an extra batch of advanced architecture lessons between Project 1 and 2. Project 1 is the Talented Ball. It's a new approach to the classic "Bouncing Ball" as this ball not only bounces in the scene, but actually bounces on stage through a door with a dynamic curtain rig (meaning the curtains open with a natural sway), up to a stool and a microphone in this fully textured and light scene. It's then the students responsibility to make the ball do anything that the student may want, singing, dancing, magic, bending a spoon... Then Project 2 is "The Abduction". In short, it's an Alien in a ship coming to earth to come to abduct a special victim. The third Project is the zenith of any project a "beginning" student can ever think of doing. "When Mechs Attack". A fully rigged mechnical Mech in a snow wasteland leaving foot prints in the snow. Every project is covered in details from storyboard to production. Not only will Jason and Zak walk you through to production phases, but they'll cover in details the workflow and the tools that you'll be using, and unlike a lot of 3D Training materials, they'll even cover the purpose and some workflow details. They'll teach you why you're using a certain tool for a certain situtation, while still giving the students a lot of creative freedom.
With 82 hours of video lectures, you're assured a quality and highly detailed 3D Training targetted towards total-newbies to Maya and 3D, beginners, and even somewhat experienced Maya users. Even some advanced users have stated that they learned a lot with the masteringMaya: The Fundamentals. 3D World magazine debated that masteringMaya: The Fundamentals may be the all-time best 3D Training material ever released, rated a 9/10 as 3D World Magazine reserves the perfect score for a totally innovative and new approach to training--Video Training has been here for years, 3DBuzz just perfected it.
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After you've completed this training, or if you're very experienced, be sure to check out 3DBuzz's masteringMaya: Advanced Modelling.
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