From the course: Moving from Blender to Maya: Learn a Layered Animation Workflow
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Discovering Maya
From the course: Moving from Blender to Maya: Learn a Layered Animation Workflow
Discovering Maya
(smooth music) - Welcome to Maya. This is the interface when you first launch it, you might actually have the home screen, which would look like this. If you hit escape, it'll pop you into the rest of the application. But just to point this out, this also has a lot of useful information, under getting started, there's various tours and tutorials. If you've never used a 3D application, if Maya's actually your first and you have no Blender experience for example, or Unreal, this will actually show you how to move through the application, how to move a 3D camera, things like that, which is kind of cool. Most people dunno this is here. You'll notice that I'm using Maya 2023 0.3.1 specific version of 2023. It doesn't really matter, especially for animation. This is what you should see. I'm at the default layout. Default settings, I've changed nothing yet. And let's do a quick tour. On the left is your outliner. This little button will open and collapse it. On the right is your channel box,…