Learning Autodesk® Maya® 2013

"Hello!
What Is Maya?
How to Use the Project Files
Introducing Maya
The Nickel Tour: User Interface Layout
Getting Around in Maya
Maya Objects and Hierarchy
Exposing Maya Windows
Customizing Maya
Polygonal Modeling
Vertices, Edges, and Faces
Creating Polygon Primitives
Tool Settings
Basic Modeling Operations: Dividing Geometry
Basic Modeling Operations: Extending Geometry
Modeling with Multiple Objects
Subdivision Surface Modeling
SubD Primitives in Maya
Improving on Maya's Native SubDs
Creating Hard Surfaces with SubDs
SubDs at Render Time
SubDs in mental ray
NURBS Modeling
Introduction to NURBS
NURBS Primitives
NURBS Modeling: Revolve and Loft
NURBS Modeling: Extrude and Birail
Basic Maya Shading
Intro and Hypershade Shakedown
Basic Shaders: The Anisotropic, Ramp, and Surface Shaders
Texture Nodes and Bump Maps
Shading Networks
Using the Substance Texture
Introducing UV Mapping
Working with UVs and UV Snapshots
6.8 video
Basic Maya Lighting
Three-Point Lighting
Maya Lights Overview
Manipulating and Animating Lights
Rendering Shadows
Light Linking
Basic Lighting Effects
Basic Maya Rendering
Creating and Manipulating Cameras
Outputting Renders
Render Settings: Quality and Motion Blur
IPR Rendering
Raytracing: Reflections, Refractions, and Shadows
Controlling Object Render Stats
Batch Rendering a Sequence
Rendering in Layers
Compositing Render Layers and Creating a Shadow Pass
Basic Animation
The Basics of Animating in 3D
Keyframe Basics
The Graph Editor
Creating Skeletons and Constraints
Using Set Driven Key
The Connection Editor
The Expression Editor
Skin Binding
Mental Ray Shading and Lighting
Introducing mental ray
Mental Ray Area Light and Decay Rates
The Mia and Car Paint Shaders
Using the Physical Sun and Sky System
Indirect Lighting with mental ray
Important mental ray Render Settings
Introducing Final Gather
Controlling Final Gather
HDRI Fundamentals
Using an HDRI with mental ray (Part 1)
Using an HDRI with mental ray (Part 2)"