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What’s Maya ?

In short terms, Maya is a professional 3D animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering toolset, designed for creating realistic characters and blockbuster-worthy effects. This is the software we will use throughout the production for modeling, assigning textures, set dressing, rigging and animation.

Introduction

When opening Maya with Synk, a pipeline shelf is added at the top.

The Pipeline shelf contains My Tasks, Scenes, Tools, a link to the confluence documentation and a link to your user folder on the server.

Open

• My Tasks

• Scenes

• Tools

Preferences

User preferences are kept on a network location, which enables you switching workstations without losing your preferences.

Important: Remember that this behavior of user preferences is only in place when using the pipeline and ftrack!