Introduction

Autodesk Maya

What is Autodesk Maya(Maya)?

Autodesk Maya is a 3D animation software application developed by Autodesk that enables professionals who work with animating film, television programs, visual effects, and video games to create highly professional 3D animations. On my personal view of Maya, it has most of the tools, components and features for creating good 3D animation. On my first time using Maya, I was confuse because there were lots of tool that I don’t know of its function. It takes lots of time and practice in order to be able to make animations using Maya.

Basic of Maya

Transformation tools

-Tranformationtools are for adjusting object quicker just by clicking the icon. These icon are the most use in Maya

Select tool
 - Just like the name, this tool is for selecting an object or multiple object.

Lasso tool
-  it also use to selecting object but by using lasso. This is more useful for selecting multiple object in an area.

Move tool
- For moving the selecting object in any direction

Rotate tool
- For rotating selected object in any direction

Scale tool
- Scaling  the selected object to make it smaller or bigger

Soft Modification tool
- Allows modification of the object with falloff

Show Manipulator tool
- Show the manipulator, allowing you to adjust construction history.

Maya Components

I did some research on Maya components. These are some of the component:

Fur

It is for large area coverage of short hairs and hair-like materials. It can be used to simulate short fur-like objects, such as grass. In contrast to Maya Hair, the Fur module makes no attempt to prevent hair-to-hair collisions.

nHair

it is capable of simulating forces acting on long hair and per-hair collisions.

nCloth

nCloth provides detailed control of cloth and material simulations.

nParticle

nParticle is for simulating a wide range of complex 3D effects, including liquids, clouds, smoke, spray, and dust.