• Official Syllabus

• Grading

• Previous Animations

• Project Notes

• Capstone rubrics

• CSE 682-0010
  LEC 11808
  MW 1:30-3:18
  DL 317
• Syllabus

Course Info

• Schedule
• Group Info

• Rube Goldberg

• Maya software
  • 10 copies available in CL112D (also 5 copies of Premier are available).
  • Autodesk's Education Community download center
  • OSU's Wired Out (the Tech Store)
• Using Maya
  • The Art of maya (pdf)
  • User interface
    • Autodesk Maya Training
    • notes on the Maya User Interface; screen shot ( ppt, pdf )
    • notes on Maya essentials
  • for some online Maya resources, check out highend3d.com
  • Internal structure
    • notes on the important concepts in Maya
    • Notes on internal structure ( ppt, pdf)
  • Technical groups
    • Winter 2011
    • Winter 2010
    • Winter 2009
  • Links to Maya tutorials and other information
  • Generi rigged character (zip file)
• MEL: Maya's scripting language
  • Google presentation on MEL (pdf)
  • notes on MEL (pdf)
  • sample MEL scripts
  • Mel and Expressions (pdf)
  • see Alan Price's notes on MEL and expressions for his ACCAD course
• Python scripting
  • Duke Art course tutorial
  • Autodesk University: Introduction to Python Programming with Maya ( url w/ video, pdf )
  • SourceForge Python/Maya: Introductory tutorial
• C++ API
  • notes (pdf). NOTE: this is for a previous version of Maya and I think the procedure has changed for current Maya releases.
  • makeSphere C++ program - all it does is 'make a sphere' - the graphics equivalent of 'hello world'
  • accessVertices C++ program - iterates through all the vertices of a selected polygonal mesh and multiplies the x-coordinate by 20

How many people does it take to make a movie?