Technical Tutorial-Using MAYA

  MAYA is a great program for people who want to try 3D animation, but it can be confusing. There are so many things this program can do, it gets overwhelming, confusing, annoying, and straight up stupid. But this tutorial will tell you some of the easiest things you can do in MAYA. 

  This is the top bar. It is the main hub for operations and controls when using MAYA. Right now, it's in the "Polygons" tab. Selecting different tabs will allow you to create different things. After creating objects, you can change them and fit them together to form larger projects. You can also add color to your creations by selecting them, then holding down the right-click and dragging down to "Add favorite material". A box will appear to the right. Keep holding down on the mouse and drag over to select one of the options. The option "lambert" is just a normal color. "Blinn" is a little bit shinier and reflective. "Phong" is for really shiny things. 

  This is what the whole screen looks like. You can adjust it to make your workspace bigger or smaller. The project on the screen now is my semester final. We had to choose a pen from our backpacks, then make it in MAYA. It's still a work in progress, but overall, it's pretty close to being finished. This is incredibly small and insignificant compared to some of the things you can make in MAYA, so go ahead and try it out. You won't be disappointed.