Class Description
Maya 3D animation software offers a comprehensive creative feature set for 3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, rendering, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform.
Maya has next-generation display technology, accelerated modeling workflows, and tools for handling complex data.Maya® 3D animation is used by all major Animated Film Production studios such as Blue Sky, Disney-Pixar, Dreamworks, Universal, 2Oth Century Fox and has been used to produce the greatest 3D Animated Films of all time. Come learn on the software that professionals use! The course will introduce you the basics for 3D computer animation. Ever wonder how your favorite 3D Animated Movies are made ? Find out and learn why 3D is the NEXT BIG thing in Animation!
Mediums & Media/Programs Used
- Graphic Pen
- Digital Tablet
- Maya 3D
Subject Covered
- Computer Literacy
- 12 Principles of Animation
- Rigging
INSTRUCTORS
Joe Zaffuto
3D Animation / 2D Animation & Gaming Instructor
Joe Zaffuto is a graduate of Ringling College of Art & Design, receiving a BFA in Computer Animation in 1999. I then obtained a MFA Degree specializing in Modeling from The Academy of Art University of San Francisco.
With over 14 years that span over a plethora of different projects from college instruction, movies, television, and video games. My true passion is for lighting, and art direction, but I also love to instruct, inspire and lead.
Amanda Moldovan
Digital & Traditional Instructor
Amanda Moldovan is a skilled animator, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and professional weirdo. In school, she crawled her way through the jungles of the amazon to get her BFA in Animation. Being a University of Central Florida student taught her what it was like to work in a studio environment and create a short animated film. Since then she has had animation jobs around the US, started her own art business, directed a short, and worked as a painting instructor.
In her first job as an instructor she taught people of all ages how to get creative and pick up a brush. She has animated on short films, music videos, video games, YouTube series, and Television shows. She also is an avid member of Women in Animation, where she was lucky enough to be in a mentorship group under a head of animation at Pixar. Her hobbies include Dungeons and Dragons, rock and roll, and re watching old Muppet show episodes. Raised in the state of Florida (home of the mouse himself), she found herself inspired by the world around her and began to create. The world hasn’t been the same since.
Monica Rodriguez
Digital & Traditional Instructor
Monica Rodriguez is a freelance animator and digital artist skilled in digital 2D animation, character design, 3D character animation, storyboarding, compositing, and video editing. Programs she works with are Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Animate, Premiere Pro, Audition, Toon Boom Harmony, Storyboard Pro, and Autodesk Maya.
Graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with an MFA in Animation and has worked on short films and promotional videos with many creative collaborators. She eagerly delves into storytelling or character performance, and not only loves to teach the craft but likes to learn from others experiences as well.
