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18 years ago
Ive been thinking about doing something like this for a while. In the coming semester its likely that Ill be helping teach a course in 3d animation, that being the case I'd like to test my ability to instruct others in the same fashion that Ill be expected to. Plus I'm curious to see if theres any interest in it.
I'm thinking of giving lessons in Maya to anyone who is interested in learning it, provided enough people are interested to make it worth spending the time. Im looking for a group of between 3 and 5 people, But theres wiggle room in those numbers. The lessons themselves will take place through VNC with voice through either Skype or Ventrilo, depending on how many people want in. So, you'll be able to actually watch my screen and ask questions and the like. At the same time I think people would be able to start they're own VNC server so I can check out their work if theres a problem, but thats optional and I certainly don't expect everyone to be running a VNC server.
Anyway, so if you ever wanted to learn modelling or 3d animation, heres your chance. I cant say for certain how long each lesson will run, But I think its safe to assume somewhere in "several hours" range. We would start off with a general introduction to Maya and a brief overview of its main components, then jump into basic modelling and animation. From there we'd go into basic character modelling, UV mapping, texturing, and simple rigging, etc, etc. Of course we can scale the difficulty if things are a bit too simple or too hard. This will all span over several lessons over several days, maybe weeks, It depends on how well I teach. I also cant absolutely guarantee a perfectly regular schedule since I work odd hours sometimes, But they'll probably take place after 5pm Eastern Time when I get off from work, though we can try to schedule around everyones available times..
Anyway, it should be interesting at the very least, so If you're reading this and you're interested, lemme know.
The only things you'll need for this are VNC client, Skype (or Ventrilo, whichever one we have to use), a Microphone obviously, Maya PLE (which is available here:
http://www.autodesk.com/maya-trial ), and the ability to not fall asleep when I inevitably start droning on about IK handles.
We need more renders here, people.
I'm thinking of giving lessons in Maya to anyone who is interested in learning it, provided enough people are interested to make it worth spending the time. Im looking for a group of between 3 and 5 people, But theres wiggle room in those numbers. The lessons themselves will take place through VNC with voice through either Skype or Ventrilo, depending on how many people want in. So, you'll be able to actually watch my screen and ask questions and the like. At the same time I think people would be able to start they're own VNC server so I can check out their work if theres a problem, but thats optional and I certainly don't expect everyone to be running a VNC server.
Anyway, so if you ever wanted to learn modelling or 3d animation, heres your chance. I cant say for certain how long each lesson will run, But I think its safe to assume somewhere in "several hours" range. We would start off with a general introduction to Maya and a brief overview of its main components, then jump into basic modelling and animation. From there we'd go into basic character modelling, UV mapping, texturing, and simple rigging, etc, etc. Of course we can scale the difficulty if things are a bit too simple or too hard. This will all span over several lessons over several days, maybe weeks, It depends on how well I teach. I also cant absolutely guarantee a perfectly regular schedule since I work odd hours sometimes, But they'll probably take place after 5pm Eastern Time when I get off from work, though we can try to schedule around everyones available times..
Anyway, it should be interesting at the very least, so If you're reading this and you're interested, lemme know.
The only things you'll need for this are VNC client, Skype (or Ventrilo, whichever one we have to use), a Microphone obviously, Maya PLE (which is available here:
http://www.autodesk.com/maya-trial ), and the ability to not fall asleep when I inevitably start droning on about IK handles.
We need more renders here, people.
I have Maya 7.0.1, and a year into my college at Computer Animation; Maya is the software of our choice, so things like UVs, rigs, hypershade, hypergraph, are all pretty familiar. I'd be interested, though I have college work to do of my own; though I could gladly helpwhen I can. either questions about current CA colleges, teaching, exercises, etc. if you get into more intermediate lessons i may try to drop in