I believe that if you can say beautiful. You can create beautiful. Every person is artist.On that note Let’s start Maya and Create some thing with out thinking that it be in real life just design and design until you feel that now its looking good. Let’s Start Maya, start from being familiar with the software and while we are learning lets create some thing also for getting the knowledge and the information of the Maya. Idea to start is creating a room lamp.

INTRODUCTION

First thing to do just open the software after the installation form the desk top. When you open the Maya the main screen you will see is this.

The main options are you already familiars are same as in most software’s like File, Edit, Window and Help but some are change.

File is the menu from where you open, Close or save you file and Edit is the Redo, Undo and Copy Past stuff. Help is the place you get help about the software.

The other tools including the File, Edit, Window and help are use for the modeling by whom we will model the table lamp. On next under the menu bar as you open the Maya first time on your computer you will see that you have written Animation.

This is the penal we use most when you start creation.

For now just for to know how it works just left click by the muse on the tiny button on right side of the Animation. Inside this you may find 6 more options Polygon, Surfacing, Dynamics, Rendering, nDynamics and Customize. When you select any of these you may notice that the menu bar change all the times when you select any of them.It just because of that Maya is big software and it’s holding a lot of tools the menu bar is just not enough to hold all of them. That’s why this is converted in theses categories the tools just appear in the menu bar which are related to the option you select. As now animation is selected you have all animation option in the tool bar when you select the polygons you will have the polygonal options in the tool bar.

As we are just starting the modeling in the Maya and I said before that we will learn the Maya doing modeling because we are just on start. Form this pull down menu we select the polygons menu.

So we will get the polygon tools comes out in menu bar which will helps us to create the object from the basic in Maya.

In front of the polygons menu we have new, open and save option icons. So we don’t have to go in file we can just open and save our file from here. Right after this we have some selection tools.

These are the tools use to select the object by different ways. Which Called selection masks. After that as we see there are some icon with the picture of magnet. These are the snap options. These are use in movement when we move the object and also use in draw the line. After that we have some rendering option which are use for the rendering the seen after that we have access to X Y Z axis and then we have three most important icon we play with the most the Attribute editor, Show or hide the tool settings and Channel box we will use this also when we model our lamp.

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