Autodesk Maya is not software it’s a complete 3d package. I learn Maya with some amazing Maya Tutorials.
Today I share some great Maya courses that will sharpen your Maya skills. Some courses are premium but affordable.
Let’s dive right in.
1. Exterior Environment Modeling
This is a simple tutorial for the environment but it is for intermediate artists not for beginners.
This is a simple village modeling tutorial to improve your 3d modeling skill.
2. Realistic Bed Modeling
In this tutorial, Artist uses Maya with a Marvelous designer to create a realistic bed.
Maya is used for modeling and Marvelous designer is used for realistic cloth simulation.
3. Black Widow: 3D Portrait
This tutorial is only for advanced users and is only for a deep passionate 3d character artist.
Before watching this, you first know face anatomy to easily understand this tutorial.
This free tutorial is also divided into two-part. So you can easily understand this class.
4. Carpet Rug
In this tutorial, the artist creates a carpet rug with Maya and Mental Ray and a little bit of Mel Scripting.
They use very simple techniques to create realistic carpets.
5. Exterior Night Lighting Tutorial
Maya has great lighting tools. But for beginner artists have the complexity to set the lighting for Realistic results.
One more reason for Bad lighting is Bad teachers and the worst centers.
So This Maya tutorial comes from AutoDesk and it’s a great tutorial to understand lighting and improve your lighting work.
6. Realistic Glass Render
Artist, They still used Mental Ray and do not upgrade to V-Ray or Arnold due to Low Budget.
You can also create a realistic Glass Render with Mia Material in Mental Ray. But for this tutorial, you need Maya 2016 or the latest version.
7. Texturing in Maya
Texturing in Maya is not easy like Substance Painter. If you want a faster and easy texture process, you can use Substance Painter.
But if you are just started texturing, You can practice texturing in your favorite 3d software to understand the texturing process.
Later on, You can move to Substance or any other PBR Texturing Software.
8. Posh Living Room Scene
In this free Maya tutorial, the artist creates a posh living room in Maya.
This is a step-by-step tutorial and this course is divided into two parts. it’s for beginners and very lengthy tutorials.
So you need to have patience while watching this amazing tutorial.
9. Realistic Environment Modeling
Realistic Environment in Maya is another great tutorial by CreativeBloq.
I have already told you that environment is just a game of Proportion.
Once you understand the Proportion game, you can easily create any type of environment. In this tutorial, artists share some tips to create a cool environment.
10. Cheez Platter
Cheez Platter , when I saw this awesome tutorial and final render, I am loving it.
Artists create very realistic render and provide a very simple guide to understand by any level of artist.
The artist divide this tutorial into several parts to easily understand his guide
11. Tips N Tricks
This is not a tutorial. But These Maya tips are necessary for every Artist for Speeding your workflow.
Maya has a lot of bugs and a lot of tips. So CreativeBloq does an awesome job by sharing these tips.
12. Game Character Creation Series
In this game character series, artists do a very great job to publish this tutorial. This Maya course is very easy for everyone.
But Why easy, Because the artist divided this Maya course into 10 parts. So the learner skips the part that they already know or don’t want to learn the part.
Here is a course breakdown.
- High-Resolution Modeling
- Low-Resolution Modeling
- UV Unwrapping
- Texture Baking
- Skelton Process
- Basic Rigging
- Facial Rigging
- Blend Shapes
- Hair Rigging and LOD
13. The idea of Rolls Royce
Gallery Award Winner Khaled Alkayed share his idea of Rolls Royce on 3D Total. He is an amazing artist, You believe it or not.
But when you see her tutorials, you are amazed. He shares the complete process of how he made an award-winning Rolls Royce.
14. Making Zhou Zhuang
“ Zhou Zhuang “ name and image are interesting when I listen to the name first, I am curious about and find good tutorials about this on 3D Total.
But this tutorial is not a beginner and not a step-by-step. This class is for intermediate and Advanced 3D artists.
15. Futuristic Weapon Making
This is a very old tutorial for weapon modeling and texturing.
Textures are made in Photoshop, But at this time, you can use Substance Painter to create realistic texture in less time.
But it’s a great tutorial for an artist who does not know about PBR. This course is divided into several parts such as Modeling, Texturing, Composition.
16. Standing Beauty Making
I already tell that female modeling is hard because of Beauty and smoothness. In this class, the artist shares his experience, how he makes an awesome standing beauty.
You like the image, but achieving the image output is harder and you need to lot of practice for achieving this result
17. Swimsuit Female Modeling
CG Arena publishes a lot of awesome CG tutorials. Pick one tutorial from thousand of amazing Maya tutorials is hard.
In this class, the artist shares his secret, how he made a swimsuit babe model. But it no shortcuts here, you need to practice to achieve amazing results.
18. Free Maya Course
CG Spectrum does a really good job of providing a free Maya course for beginners. In this course, you will learn Modeling.
You just need to sign up to access this free maya course. This is a great website, you can find many useful tutorials for free.
Course Detail:-
- Navigating
- Creation and Manipulation Object
- Selection and Hidden
- Attribute Editor
- Modeling Tools
- Basic Sword Creating
- Create LightSaber
19.Mastering in Hard Surface Modeling
Hard Surface Modeling takes more time especially when you work for good topology if you are doing it manually.
But the smart artist does not waste time because they know the many scripts available on the CG Marketplace for free.
These scripts do the task automatically. In this course, the Instructor tells you some awesome Maya scripts and tools for faster workflow.
This course is completely free. After Watching this course, you are a pro in Hard Surface modeling.
20. UV Mapping Character
Maya is a great software for character modeling and UV Mapping. It has several useful tools for making a character.
In this tutorial, You will completely understand to create a nice and clean UV or any character or creature.
21. Motorcycle Modeling Techniques
This is another great hard surface Tutorial by FlippedNormal.
In this tutorial, the artist creates a Motorcycle in Maya which is great for hard surface artists.
If you are a vehicle artist or want to become a vehicle artist in a famous studio then you must watch this course.
22. Realistic Character Modeling
If you want to be a character artist but don’t find a course in your budget then this is a perfect course for you.
If you struggle in character modeling, then you must watch this course. This class is within your Budget.
This course is created for the beginner student who wants to learn a complete pipeline.
course detail
- Sculpting Realistic Face
- Realistic Skin Detail
- Creating Hair, Beard, and Eyebrow
- Sculpt Realistic Cloth
- Shoe Modeling
- Head and Hand Anatomy
- Hard Surface Gun Modeling
- Production Advice
23. Introduction to Maya
In this Maya Introduction Course, you will learn the complete introduction of Maya with solid tips and tricks that speed up your workflow.
This course is great for any newbie artist who wants to learn Maya, and the guide is very easy and step-by-step.
In this course, the artist creates a Spartan Helmet model from scratch.
24. Complete Animation Course
This is a complete Maya Animation Course for Beginners taught by Hollywood professionals. They teach you animation from scratch.
Course Details:-
- Rigging Characters
- Animating with keyframes
- Motion Graphic Animation (MASH) toolkit
- Simulating dynamic effects and more.
25. Retopology Game Character
Once you finished your High-Resolution sculpting in Zbrush or Mudbox, Now you need to retopology your sculpted models.
Maya and TopoGun both are great retopology tools, But I recommend Maya for flexibility, you can use any tools that suit your workflow.
In this course, the Instructor retopology full character for games.
26. Realtime Hair Creation
Hair creation is the toughest part for 3d character artists. I saw many tutorials about hair creation but no one satisfies me.
They provide an outdated and useless tutorial. After a lot of searching, I found a great real-time hair creation tutorial
course breakdown.
- 1 Gathering Reference
- 2 Game Theory/ Card Creation
- 3 Making the Asset: Base Layer
- 4: Mid Layer Making
- 5: Top Layer Making
- 6: Finalize Assets and Put it in Unreal Engine.
27. Rigging Tutorial
Rigging is Boring for me but it is interesting for passionate rigging artists. If you want to make a carrier as a rigging artist then this course help you.
For Animation, Rigging is necessary.
28. Gun Modeling for Games
This course is designed for beginners. Gun modeling is not complicated like Character or Environment.
But Realistic and Effective gun modeling for games needs more time and skills.
If you are a weapon and Props artist or Passionate about Making weapons and Props, You must watch this course.
Now It’s Over To You
I share some of the best Autodesk Maya Tutorials, now i want to know which tutorial you like.
If you wanna share something or ask, use the comment section.
Originally published at https://cgia3d.com on December 11, 2021.
