FREE PDF Guide: Maya 3D Primer

"Maya® 3D Primer: Quick Start Guide to Maya for Environment Art"

"Maya 3D Primer" is a FREE Quick Start PDF Guide to begin using Maya for environment art. It contains 200+ pages and features over 85+ tips and how to techniques. If you want to get started with Maya as a beginner - SUBSCRIBE NOW AND GET THIS MASSIVE GUIDE!

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What You Will Learn from "Maya 3D Primer" PDF Guide:

Important 3D principles and concepts most beginners miss
4 Ways to Download Maya (For Indie Devs, Freelancers, Hobbyists and Students)
First time inside Maya - what to do
How to avoid and fix most common beginner mistakes
4 primary modeling methods you need to know about
Overview of 3D asset creation pipeline workflow
Mastering viewport navigation
Understanding Maya's interface in one glance
How to organize and manage your Maya projects
How to view your model Poly Count in the viewport
4 important Maya editors you need to know about
How to reset Maya back to default settings if you mess up the interface and can't get Maya to work
How to create polygon primitives and start modeling
Quick way to find correct XYZ direction to set you up for modeling
Set up your viewport like this for modeling
Learn how to work with objects in Maya - how to edit vertices, edges and faces
How to snap objects to grid, vertices and edges
How to control object's pivot points
The 11 essential modeling tools you need to know to get started modeling
Learn to blockout environments with a geometry modeling basic exercise
What are UVs and what's UV Mapping vs UV Unwrapping vs UVing
Learn how to quickly work within the UV Editor
How to create new materials and assign them to your models
What is 0-1 UV space
Improving your UV workflow with UV Editor view modes
4 different UV projection methods for Unwrapping you will start with
How to tweak your model after you already UVed the mesh
70+ Maya shortcuts for environment art to speed up your workflow in Maya
And much, much more in this 200+ page PDF Guide

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