Lynda - VFX Techniques Space Scene 01 Maya Animation and Dynamic Simulation

Duration: 3h 8m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 960?540 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 1ch

Genre: eLearning | Jan 31 2014 | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

Take a journey to another world with Lee Lanier and learn how to animate and render a professional-looking space scene with Maya. In this course the first in a two-part series Lee provides you with two prebuilt models a spaceship and an asteroid which youll keyframe to create a near-miss meeting in an orbit around an alien planet. Youll also add cameras light your scene and set up render layers and mental ray render passes to give the animation color and depth. Last Lee shows you how to focus the ships laser beam on the asteroid shattering its surface with a dynamic simulation and kicking up clouds of space dust with nParticles and then render your results.

Topics include:

Animating the spaceship and asteroid

Animating cameras to follow the action

Setting key and fill lights

Creating layers for the sun stars and planet

Setting up shadow and lighting layers

Creating mental ray render passes

Exploding geometry in a dynamic simulation

Attaching nParticle emitter to bodies

Batch rendering render layers

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