本教程是由SimplyMaya机构出品的Maya完整机器人建模动画教程，时长：6小时1分，教程使用软件：Maya，大小：1.63 GB，AVI视频格式，语言：英语。

Maya 是目前世界上最为优秀的三维动画的制作软件之一，主要是为了影视应用而研发的，所以在出世后不久就在《精灵鼠小弟》、《恐龙》等这些大片中一展身手。除了影视方面的应用外Maya在三维动画制作，影视广告设计，多媒体制作甚至游戏制作领域都有很出色的表现。初识Maya 是目前世界上最为优秀的三维动画的制作软件之一，它是Alias|Wavefront公司在论坛1998年才推出的三维制作软件。虽然相对于其他老牌三维制作软件来说Maya还是一个新生儿，但Maya凭借其强大的功能，友好的用户界面和丰富的视觉效果，一经推出就引起了动画和影视界的广泛关注，成为顶级的三维动画制作软件。

Simply Maya The Complete Mech Modeling & Animation Project

In this complete project we create the Mech Warrior robot model which you can see above, and continue with the rigging and animation where we make him walk and do a ball pick up and throw.

We start by creating a project folder and set up image planes and following our references we start blocking out the base shape of the model. This tutorial mainly shows a NURBS & polygon workflow, with some subdivision modeling for the finer details. NURBS are typically used in hard surface modeling and this tutorial teaches you a lot of good techniques for how to work with this geometry type in Maya.

We build up our model quickly and use tools like extrude, scale, cut face, extract, booleans and split poly. You’ll also see how to move and insert pivot points for different parts of the robot when duplicating geometry which is done a lot in hard surface modeling to generate the mesh in a quick and efficient way. We create polygon hands and guns, and take a look at how to clean up and delete unnecessary geometry on a model which could otherwise cause problems later during the rigging process.

With the modeling done we move on to rigging and animation of the Mech Warrior. During the rigging process you’ll learn how to rig with bones and we create the individual joints that make up the full skeleton. We size and mirror the joints and adjust rr-sc.com the orientation in Maya’s Hypergraph, parent and bind the skeleton to the skin before we set up foot and hand controls for this character. You’ll see how to test different parts of the rig as well move along, work with locators and create IK handles in Maya for depth control to get realistic foot rolls and finger curl, fist and spread. We also use the Hypergraph to build hierarchies for the IK handles and move on to animation.

These lessons in the tutorial will show how to create character sets in Maya and use SDK’s to drive the attributes. We start by blocking out a walk animation using the autokey function and graph editor and fine tune it as we move along, and also add a ball pick up and throw. You’ll learn how to play back your animations, loose up movement in a character animation to make it more realistic and work with the dope sheet.

The Mech Warrior tutorial comes with the fully rigged character if you are only interested in the animation lessons and can be found with lesson 7.