Training

Maya Tutorials

These tutorials introduce various different functional areas of Autodesk® Maya®,  Autodesk® MatchMover™ and Maya Composite in a set of lessons. The lessons are accompanied by scene files that you can use to learn at your own pace. View the PDF files and download the necessary lesson data files.

Maya 2010

Getting Started with Maya 2010 (pdf - 27224Kb)
Getting Started 2010 Lesson Files (zip - 72665Kb)
Maya Live 2010 Lesson Data (zip - 201654Kb)

Maya 2008

Getting Started with Maya introduces the different areas of Maya (Complete and Unlimited) in a set of brief lessons. View the PDF files and download the necessary lesson files.

Getting Started with Maya 2008 (pdf - 13468Kb)
Getting Started with Maya Unlimited 2008 (pdf - 6046Kb)
Getting Started 2008 Lesson Files (zip - 14249Kb)
Maya Live 2008 Lesson Data (zip - 200610Kb)

Maya Composite

The Maya Composite tutorials introduce you to the application UI and basic workflows, including creating a composition, importing footage, using hotkeys, adding tools, connecting passes and renders, and compositing renders. In addition, these tutorials cover blend modes, color correction and fine tuning results. View the PDF file and download the necessary lesson data files.

Composite Tutorials (pdf - 15706Kb)
Image Data (zip - 15317Kb)
Render Data (zip - 110285Kb)

Maya MatchMover Tutorials

Learn to perform basic matchmoving techniques which includes loading images sequences, tracking a sequence, and then exporting the tracked rendered 3D data to file that can be used in 3D animation and compositing programs. You will also learn how to create a track manually using supervised tracking and set up survey points. View the PDF file and download the necessary lesson data files.

MatchMover Tutorials (pdf - 3484Kb)
MatchMover Lesson Files (zip - 75789Kb)

Note: The Getting Started with Maya lesson files are installed in your Maya directory when you install Maya. Alternately, you can download the lesson files from here. The lesson files for Maya Live are provided as a separate download.