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Free Workshop: Autodesk Maya for Beginners

by | Jan 8, 2025

In this free workshop, Senior Animator Paul Allen goes over some of the basics of the software Autodesk Maya.

Topics covered include:

  • Interface overview
  • Object creation
  • Transform tools – including Move, Rotate, Scale, Quick tool settings
  • Timeline and keyframing basics
  • Graph Editor introduction
  • And much more!

Paul also takes questions from attendees to the live-recorded event.

Watch the full workshop above.

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About Paul Allen

Paul Allen has been a professional animator since 1997 and is currently a senior animator at id Software, known for the DOOM video game franchise, and Xbox Game Studios. He started his career in television and was a character animation supervisor for the Nickelodeon classic, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Paul has been a mentor in the Animation Mentor Character Animation Program since 2006.

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