From the course: Introduction to 3D

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Maya interface and overview

Maya interface and overview

From the course: Introduction to 3D

Start my 1-month free trial

Maya interface and overview

“

- [Instructor] Now let's get acquainted with Maya. When you first open Maya, it may seem a little bit intimidating, there are a lot of buttons. But if you break it down it is pretty straightforward, so let's just go through the interface so you can understand where everything is. We're going to start along the top. We have a menu system that's probably familiar to most people. So we have a file, an edit menu, allows you to cut, copy, paste. Create, allows you to create all sorts of different types of objects. We have a select menu, allows you to select and deselect, to do some other things. We also have modify, display, and windows. Now once you start going to the right of the windows menu, these menus here will change depending upon what you're doing in Maya. Now that may seem confusing, but all you have to do is understand that this menu here changes these tools, so if you were rendering, you would want these menus…

Contents