Lesson 01
Primitives
This lesson teaches you how to build and transform primitives in 3D space in order to create a rudimentary environment, in which you will set up some animation shown in this book. You will explore the Autodesk® Maya® user interface (UI) as you learn how to build and develop your scene.
In this lesson, you will learn the following:
- How to set a new Maya project
- How to create primitive objects
- How to move objects in 3D space
- How to duplicate objects
- How to change the shape of objects
- How to use the Maya view tools
- How to change the display of your objects
- How to name your objects
- How to save your scene
Setting up Maya software ...
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