1. What is Animation Production?
2. A brief History of Animation
3. Understanding the animation production pipeline
4. Art appreciation

1. Overview of Maya interface, Menus and Shelves, Channel box, Attribute editor
2. Perspective orthographic views
3. Customising the interface
4. Creating and saving the project
5. Viewport navigation and transformation tools
6. Using NURBS primitives
7. Importing references and model sheet
8. Creating curves
9. Generating surfaces from curves
10. Understanding seams and tessellation
11. Rebuilding surfaces and Moving the seam
12. Types of fillets and their applications

1. Polygon Primitives and Components
2. NURBS v/s Polygon
3. Modeling Tool Kit
4. Box modeling approach
5. Planar and Non-planar Polygons

1. Polygon Surface Normals
2. Topology, Edge loops and rings
3. Two-manifold and Non-manifold geometry
4. Advanced modeling tools
5. Understanding prop references and model sheets
6. Researching about the functions of the prop
7. Blocking the prop with polygon primitives
8. Refining and detailing the model

1. Understanding the layout
2. Researching and collecting other references
3. Blocking the environment with polygon primitives
4. Refining and adding details
5. Using deformers to create models
6. Modeling terrain with polygon sculpting
7. Modeling vegetation
8. Consideration level of detail (LOD)

1. Understanding the vehicle blueprint
2. Researching and collecting additional references
3. Blocking the vehicle with polygon primitives
4. Refining and adding details
5. Using deformers to create models
6. Topology, Edge loops and rings
7. Modeling the interior of the vehicle
8. Optimising the model for production

1. Organic v/s in-organic modeling
2. Principles of Character modeling
3. Importance of a strong silhouette
4. Edge flow for character modeling
5. Modeling semi-realistic characters
6. Modeling character accessories
7. Modeling the costume
8. Modeling stylized characters for film and cinematics

1. Concept of Digital Sculpting
2. What are pixels?
3. Introduction to ZBrush interface
4. Customising the interface layout
5. Understanding subtools
6. Creating and saving a file, zTool and zProject
7. Sculpting basics
8. Commonly used brushes for sculpting

1. Loading reference images
2. Sculpting with standard brushes
3. Using alphas for sculpting
4. Using spotlight
5. Using 3D layers for sculpting
6. Dynamic subdivision
7. Understanding polygroups
8. Primitives a polymesh

1. What is Retopology?
2. The need for Retopology
3. Auto Retopology in ZBrush
4. Custom Retopology in ZBrush
5. Retopology tools in Maya
6. Projecting the details

1. Using Live boolean
2. Using shadowbox
3. Blocking and sculpting the model
4. Adding details with alpha brushes
5. Adding details with spotlight
6. Mesh extract
7. Dynamesh
8. Remeshing
9. Masking and polygroups

1. Customising the brush settings
2. Creating and using custom brushes and alphas
3. Using zSpheres to create armature
4. Adaptive skinning
5. Sculpting details with dynamic subdivision
6. Blocking and Detailing the model
7. Using fibermesh
8. Posing the model

1. What is kitbashing?
2. Creating and using custom brushes and alphas
3. Mesh insert
4. Large-scale model details
5. Building and using a custom parts library
6. Adding greebles to Maya’s content browser
7. Assembling the details
8. Dynamesh and Retopology

1. Collecting references
2. Understanding the form and function
3. Blocking the model
4. Detailing the model
5. Using MASH in Maya
6. Using arraymesh in ZBrush
7. Modeling using deformers
8. Using rigging techniques to integrate the parts

1. Collecting reference images
2. Blocking the environment model
3. Detailing the environment model
4. Adding damage and distress
5. Working on vegetation
6. Sculpting terrain details
7. Putting it all together

1. What are UVs?
2. Unwrapping the UVs of a model
3. Understanding Texel density
4. Efficient UV layout strategies
5. Exporting UV layouts
6. Texture painting basics in Photoshop
7. Integrating Photoshop and Maya
8. Baking texture maps
9. Working with bump, normal, specular and reflection maps

1. Preparing the files for rendering
2. Hardware, software and vector rendering
3. Camera setup for rendering
4. Diagnosing quality of render
5. Color management
6. Rendering stills
7. Render layers and passes
8. Batch render: Rendering image sequences
9. Working with fCheck utility

1. Identifying an area of interest
2. Planning a demo reel
3. Creating an art portfolio/demo reel/showreel
4. Do’s and Dont’s in a demo reel
5. Exporting the demo reel
6. Creating an art station profile to showcase portfolio

1. Prop Modeling
2. Vehicle Modeling
3. Environment Modeling
4. Character Modeling