Learn how to bring Mixamo motions into Maya using Animation Layers, for further tweaking efficiency.

You’ll learn how to use the paint-on selection tool as well as how to save and recall selection sets that you may want to use over and over again.

We start this tutorial by opening Steam and downloading Half Life 2 to gain access to the Source SDK.

To get started we download and get familiar with Steam. Also, we set up our project files to keep everything well organized through-out the tutorial.

To get started animating your characters in Maya, you'll need to download a BVH file plugin and a Half-Life 2 exporter.

This chapter shows the different attributes of the Hypershade tool and how they affect lighting, color, transparency, etc.

In this chapter we give a brief overview of the user interface and the many tools that make up Maya.

This introduction to Maya 2011 will get you familiarized with the many tools and buttons that make up the interface.

Taking what you've learned from previous Maya 2011 3D Content Creation tutorials, you'll model a mason jar from scratch.