Welcome to 3D Design Basics - WS2020

Welcome to the 3D Design Basics course at HS-Augsburg! You can find all lessons and topics in the navigation column to the left. We try to give you an abbreviated overview on how Autodesk Maya works and we want to create our first 3D scenes together.

While we try to cover most functions of Maya we need, we won’t be able to do it’s massive toolset justice. If you want to learn more, always check out the Official Autodesk Maya Manual

This documentation is split into three parts. Part one, ‘Using Maya’ focuses on teaching you the skills to use Maya. Part two focuses on basic design rules and guidelines while part three contains your assignments that let you try, learn and excercise your newly learned skills.

Using Maya:

• Workspaces
• Interface Overview
• Working With Primitives
• Basic 3D Modeling
• Modeling Techniques for Design
• Modeling Techniques for Production
• Surfacing
• UVs, Layout and Creation
• Lights in Maya
• Rigging for Animation

Design for 3D:

• Introduction to 3D
• Sketchbooks and Thumbnails
• Overview of the 3D Pipeline
• Basic Design and Composition Principles
• Gestalt Principles
• Lighting

Assignments:

• Assignment 1 - Future City Scene
• Assignment 2 - Floating Objects
• Assignment 3 - Sci-fi Crate Concepts
• Assignment 4 - Robot Concept