#FREE Creating Cityscapes in Maya #3D + Animation #Maya

Follow along with Adam Crespi as he designs, models, and renders a detailed cityscape with Maya. After gathering reference materials, Adam designs the basic structure and components of the city in Adobe Illustrator, generating reusable symbols to represent trees, lights, and buildings. With the plan in hand, Adam dives into Maya, creating proxy objects as he lays out the city to scale. Each element is then set up as a reference object and duplicated throughout the scene, using containers and mental ray Proxy objects. The final chapter shows you how to add a matte-painting background to your scene and check the composite in Nuke. Adam also includes a bonus movie featuring a real-world example project: a simulation of a crane moving on a studio backlot.

LEVEL –  Intermediate

COURSE TOPICS:

Conceptualizing the city
Planning the city in Illustrator
Drawing buildings
Laying out the city grid and buildings
Creating tree and lighting elements
Building a reference structure
Creating referenced objects
Exporting layer markers for compositing

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Instructor’s Welcome Note:

– Hi, I’m Adam Crespi. And welcome to Creating Cityscapes in Autodesk Maya. In this course, we’ll look at the planning, design, and reference for a city. I’ll start by showing you how to gather reference, and analyze the different conditions we see in existing cities to form our new ones. Then, we’ll use Adobe Illustrator to plan out our city, making a series of symbols that we can then make a city plan and know what we need to build in 3D. We’ll see how to create references in Maya.
We’ll also look at containerizing assets, and, finally, using a mental ray proxy. Once we have our city together, we’ll take a rough version into Nuke and make sure that the 3D camera moves and matte planes we’ll create match up with the rendering, testing out our compositing and matte painting. We’ll be covering all these features plus plenty of other tools and techniques. Now, let’s get started with Creating Cityscapes in Autodesk Maya.

 

 

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