[TeamTreeHouse] 3D Art with Maya LT

163-minute Game Development Course

About this Course

If you are interested in creating 3D assets for games, and have never used 3D creation software before, this is a great place to start. This course explores the 3D art production pipeline as we model, texture, and export a game model into the Unity game engine. We’ll be working with Maya, the premiere 3D software package from Autodesk to develop a 3D game model using 2D concept images as a starting point. This course will explore useful polygonal modeling tools to establish the basic form of our prop, applying color and using texture maps to suggest different materials and surface properties. Learn to organize the Maya scene file, and export the final prop into Unity so that it can be integrated into a game. By the end of this course, you will have an arsenal of great modeling tools at your disposal that you can use to create assets based on your own designs.

What you’ll learn

• Working with Primitives
• Box Modeling Techniques
• Working with Colors and Textures
• Exporting Assets into Unity

Getting Started in Maya LT
Download Maya and become familiar with its user interface and primitive object creation and manipulation tools.

Working with Primitives
Download Maya and become familiar with its user interface and primitive object creation and manipulation tools.

Box Modeling Techniques
Begin working with box modeling techniques to construct the body of this prop.

Optimizing the Model
Learn techniques for reducing poly count, and continue exploring Maya’s extensive polygonal toolset.

Adding Surface Detail
Learn how to add color and suggest surface detail by working with materials and applying a texture to a game model.

Scene File Organization and Clean-up
Learn techniques for keeping your scene file organized and free of topology errors.

Exporting the Models to Unity
Confirm that the mesh surface reacts to lighting properly, and export the final mesh into the Unity game engine.

Created By Jason Baskin
Duration 163m

Size: 643.56 MB

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