New to Maya... any advice?

[3DGE]

Hello folks,

after having played with Blender for years and having a good knowlede of it, I came to the point where I have to move to more "professional" software (I'm opening my own 3D animation / VFX studio). So here I am, with Maya 5.0 Unlimited installed and no real knowledge of where to start.

I tried looking for beginner tutorials, but all I've found is question-specific stuff. What I'm looking for tho, is a nice introductory tutorial. You know, like click this, add a cube, resize it, add a lamp, change it's settings, render, bla bla bla... I need to a walkthrough!

Any hint on where to start? Any good newbie tuts? :)


Thanks for your help,

Seb

[deadplant155]

hey there, congrats. big jump from blender to maya. about a 7000 dollar jump i believe. hope everything works out for your new company. i just got maya about a month ago myself, and i had sorta the same problem. unfortunately, i wasn't able to find anything quite like that. the version i got came with these little introductory videos to teach you the super bare bones basics, like you said, making primitives and basic navigation stuff, but i don't know if you got that or if that's really what you need. people here are pretty good about helpin out, but again, it's just question specific. the other thing is alias' website has some resources, but you've probably already been there. hope that helps.

-loren

[deadplant155]

sorry, forgot to mention in that ridiculously long message, but have you checked out the tutorials on 3dtotal.com under maya? there's one or two that are good for starters there.

[3DGE]

Thanks deadplant155!

Yeah, it's a big jump from Blender to Maya... however I'm still trying to find my way with the PLE... I'm gonna buy the retail version only once I'll know at least ENOUGH. 7000 bucks is a lot, but please don't ask me how much I'll spend for my BOXX workstations :) And don't ask me where I found all that money... it's not my fault if my grandma died and left me an apartment I just sold and got enough money to play with CG professionally... uh, I said it :)))

Anyway, looks like I'm dumb or too sleepy... but I really can't figure out why I didn't check out the 3dtotal tutorials. I found some nice ones that should help me find my way through Maya...

Thanks again!

Seb