Maya was launched by Autodesk Company as a production program in film and video games with special visual effects. Now-a-day it is using by both student and teacher for creating basic and complex animation in their courses and project. Maya is preferred because of its comprehensive tools and command; it has also editors and integrated setting which help you to generate the model easily without any difficulties. It is advantage of Maya that you can create lifelike character and visual effect as natural in it very beautifully. If you are familiar with Maya basic tools and commands, then you can create dream work with the extended features of Maya 2011. This new version of Maya 2011 has wonderful features for character animation and skinning tools modifiers. Because of these advanced features the user can creates the character much faster and it also helps you to improve the production level of characters. These characters are generated for game development and film industries.
You have seen many English movies that are produced under the animation application. In Hollywood there is much trend of 3d movies and it is because that many of 3d movies have won awards. It was some detail about Maya 3d character and 3d modeling but one thing to remember is that all these complex and simple character models are generated through creating icons which are placed on shelf menu. These creating icons cause of building these complex modeling. You can say that shelf menu icons are central unit in modeling of any character. There are dotted lines along with shelf menu which help you to hide or unhide the menu. In this video you are told about some tips and techniques done using shelf menu icons.
