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Training Documents

Pharmacy Animation Project Class Syllabus - 77 KB

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The class syllabus for the Maya training course at URI. Self taught animators may use this file as a guideline as to how they should progress.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Introduction to Maya Interface - 177 KB

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Navigating through Maya and an overview of the 3D creation workflow. This file includes instructions on creating a simple animation in a very short amount of time.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

File Management in Maya - 61 KB

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Setting up, backing up, and opening a project.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Shortcut Keys - 42 KB

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Print this file and keep as a quick reference to speed your workflow.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Basic Skills & Polygon Modeling - 70 KB

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Fundamental Maya skills and introduction to polygon modeling.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Polygon Modeling I - 58 KB

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Overview of tools used to create and manipulate polygons.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Polygon Modeling II - 68 KB

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More polygon creation and manipulation tools. Also information of using Poly Proxy tool for modeling smooth organic shapes.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Poly Proxy Organic Modeling -52 KB

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Just the information on the use of the Poly Proxy plugin.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

PDB File Conversion - 76 KB

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How to convert a PDB file to a Maya Object
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Creating CPK Molecules in Maya - 1 KB

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This file should be used in conjunction with the PDB File Conversion text. It details a more precise procedure for creating CPK style molecules in Maya with consistent results.
Copyright © 2004 University of Rhode Island

Animation in Maya - 51 KB

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Overview of tools used to create animations in Maya.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Basic Materials, Light and Rending - 95 KB

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How to assign materials (color and texture properties, etc.) to an object, light a scene properly, and render (make final product) an image or a sequence of images (animation).
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Skeletons - 61 KB

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Using forward and inverse kinematics with skeletons to simplify animation, binding, rigid skinning, smooth skinning, and other techniques and tools related to skeletons.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Dynamics and Particles - 94 KB

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Active and passive rigid bodies, force fields, particles, emitters, and particle rendering.
Copyright © 2004 Digication

Importing a Protein (Ribbon) into Maya - 2300 KB

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Copyright © 2004 University of Rhode Island

Creating Stereo Animation in Maya - 838 KB

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How to create stereo image pairs without the Maya Bonus tools pack. The resulting left and right eye image sequences may then be processed in Aftereffects to create "eye-popping" stereo animations on the 3D Projection System
Copyright © 2004 University of Rhode Island

Video Tutorials

Video Tutorial Database

A compilation of video tutorials available to students at the animation lab.(Requires Login and Password)

Nate and Nelson's Video Tutorials

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Downloads

Stereo Turret - 86 KB

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Script to create a dual camera setup in Maya for the purposes of creating stereo image pairs.
Copyright © 2003 Alexei Plotnikov, Neurok Optics

Fresnel Shader - 4kb

Mel Script Script that automatically creates a fresnel sampler node + ramp in order to easily apply to shaders.

The Shaker- 8KB

Mel script that adds randomization to key frames which allows for more realistic camera movements.