Getting Started with Maya

Hi Maya users!

Welcome to Maya getting started series, one of the chief software applications of the world for 3 Dimensional digital animation and visual effects. Maya gives you a complete set of tools for your 3D contents and creative works ranging from modeling, animation, and dynamics through to painting and rendering and so on.

With Maya, you can make and amend 3D models in a diversity of modeling formats and animate your models using Maya’s set of animation tools. Maya in addition makes available a variety of tools to let you to render your animated 3D scenes to attain photo realistic imagery and animated visual effects.
You can generate believable visual simulations with Maya dynamics and n Dynamics tools. Using Maya Fluid Effects, you can simulate and render viscous fluids, atmospheric, pyrotechnic, and ocean effects. Maya nCloth allows you create simulations of fabric and clothing, while Maya n Particles can be employed to simulate a broad choice of effects counting liquids, clouds, smoke, spray, and dust. Other Maya dynamic simulation tools include Maya Fur, Maya Hair, and Maya Artisan brush tools.
The Maya software interface is completely customizable for those users who require the ability to take full advantage of their output. Maya lets users to make bigger their functionality inside Maya by providing right of entry to MEL (Maya Embedded Language). With MEL, you may customize the user interface or write scripts and macros. As well, a full Application Programmers Interface (API) is obtainable to improve the control and functionality of Maya. Maya also offers a Python Maya API for those users wishing to employ it.
The content formation command of Maya is given to users in an included software application that is designed to improve user output and effortlessness of use.