hey how are you doing my name is inies aleya and i'm a visual effects artist in today's
video i want to talk about autodesk maya maya is an industry-leading 3d vfx tool that allows
you to work in 3d on game development on vfx architectural visualizations and much much more
but in my opinion it's most famous for its animation tools and all the options that you
have in there to create efficient and professional looking animations within the software because
maya is being used in the professional industry for over 24 years and that's basically the biggest
reason why it's an industry-leading software so every single studio that you will go at you will
always find someone using maya in there and in most cases most people will be using maya so if
you end up learning maya you will have great odds to find a job or find freelance work to
collaborate with on other projects with other people but now let's talk about what autodesk
maya really is and what you can expect when you start learning it i'm going to focus on visual
effects because that's what this channel is about but as i said you can use it for game development
architectural visualizations and much much more but in this video i'm going to concentrate on the
visual effects aspect so maya may be the most legendary 3d software out there at this moment
so that means it has a big audience and that also means that you can find a lot of education for it
when you're trying to start so that's also a great consideration to take when you want to learn a new
software is there enough education for it and also is there enough education in a higher level
because if you look at other software you will also find great tutorials but not by
industry professionals and s maya has been used in the industry by disney marvel and so many more
and because maya has been used in the industry for feature film productions or game development
from famous movies and famous games you are going to find industry professionals teaching you the
software so now you are sure you're learning the right things and you will be able to find a job
in this industry using this tool and yeah that's something that you definitely need to keep in mind
so what is a 3d software what is maya and how do you get started so let's say that we
want to create an animation that's one of the biggest strengths in maya but before we start
on an animation we need to have a model we need to create something in order to animate it and maya
is also one of the best modeling tools out there so a lot of people use maya to model extremely
difficult models maya has a lot of workflows and ways to create really nice looking models organic
models you have so many ways on creating your models and that allows you to be very creative and
efficient maya is a really powerful modeling tool that's why a lot of people choose this software to
model their characters or buildings or structures all in maya because it has so many tools to offer
to create your objects once you have modeled your character it's time to move into texturing
and lighting your model or actually go into animation but usually i start with the texturing
and the look and feel so i know that my model is a final look and then you also have the second most
important thing in maya and that's its animation strength it has so many options for animation
that it's currently the industry industry-leading tool for animation movies so whether you want to
create realistic looking visual effects or you want to have cartoon animation movies which maya
has been used for a ton of times you will find that maya is great for animation and it just
works so efficiently when you're trying to animate something i found that it's really intuitive and i
can just quickly change everything on my model for example i tried to have this dinosaur animated i
actually imported this dinosaur 3d model together with a rig that is already optimized for maya and
this allows me to animate this dinosaur in no time you won't be able to open up this rig in any other
software so that's why i really enjoy maya because it has so many models rigs and education out there
that are optimized for this software so that's already a great way not to lose precious time
for visual effects maya is also a great choice because it also comes with its own simulation
software in there so if you want to create realistic smoke fire or liquid effects you can use
bifrost which is in maya and allows you to do this without any additional plugins you can also create
realistic looking renders which is also a really important part if you want to integrate your 3dv
effects in your live action footage you will need a render engine that is physically accurate and
allows you to recreate the realistic world as is and gives you as much options to modify it exactly
how you want and maya comes with the arnold render engine the arnold render engine is currently the
most industry standard render engine in the movie industry this because it gets you really
accurate and realistic looking results and it also allows you to modify a ton of other things
it also allows you to export every single layer differently for example you can export your color
of your object your reflection your refraction your shadows and a bunch of other stuff that you
can all export separately and then you can combine all these different elements to make up your model
in the compositing software of choice the reason why people end up doing this is to modify their
renders after they have already exported their entire scene sometimes you made a mistake or
sometimes you want to change a color or sometimes a reflection is a little bit too intense and you
want to lower that but you don't want to re-render your entire scene again so then you can use these
multi-passes from the arnold render engine to really dial every single thing separately
down for example if you want a red car to become a yellow car you can do so without affecting all
the rest and just with a click of a button after you've already rendered everything out another
great benefit that i found in maya is that it's really sturdy and it has been around for 24 years
so that's a proof that it's a sturdy and great software to choose from and especially because
it's been used in the industry for so long a lot of people have become used to this software so why
wouldn't you join them i found that if i import scenes with large polygon cons that means a very
dense object i didn't get as much jitter and lag it's really efficient and really works well with
high density polygon models so this is great for the visual effects industry because we often want
high detailed models for our close-ups and these usually make your scene much more complicated
and therefore slower and because it's such a known software it also has so many plugins that
work with it so it allows you to create literally anything when it comes to vfx for example everyone
can model everyone can texture and light and render out their scene but not everyone can
create extremely unique and yeah destructive effects that yeah make up a really complex shot
and just wows the audience and that's what amazes me all the particle stuff all the simulation stuff
destruction stuff these things are usually a lot harder than just modeling and making up your scene
and that's something that maya is also very known for if you are thinking about learning
a 3d software it's up to you to know what you want exactly because it really depends on what
you want to use this software for so think for yourself do you want to become a vfx artist
or do you just want to become a solid animator and be specialized in just that one point or you just
want to be a specialist in rendering this is all possible for me i'm a generalist i know a little
bit of everything and i can come up with a really cool result from a to z so from filming something
to the final result with visual effects but this doesn't allow me to do stuff in a short amount
of time so maybe you want to join a team where you are specialized in the animation process
you get the model and you get started on the animation maybe that's something for you maybe
you want to create architectural visibilizations and you don't want to end up in visual effects
maybe game development is really something for you and if these things are all something for you maya
is a great choice because because 4v effects in the film industry it's been the number one
leading software for over a decade and also for game development it's been used a ton of times
right now but that is a little bit more complex i don't have experience for the game development i
hear it's a lot of coding and a lot of scripting so it's a little bit more complicated i'm a fan
of visual effects and the creative aspect so yeah i'm definitely planning on learning maya a little
bit more i have been using it way way in the past i forgot most of it but i always remember
that this is a tool that i should learn so if you want to learn this as well definitely go and
check out the link in the description below where you can download maya's free trial for 30 days
go and play around with it i definitely encourage you to do so because this is currently a very
famous 3d software choice to be able to join in any vfx or cg team so if you want to get a
chance to join a professional team definitely take your chance at this free trial with a link in the
description and i'll see you in the next one i hope you enjoyed this video if you did give this
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