Maya was launched by Autodesk Company as a production program in film and video games with special visual effects. Now-a-day it is using by both student and teacher for creating basic and complex animation in their courses and project. Maya is preferred because of its comprehensive tools and command; it has also editors and integrated setting which help you to generate the model easily without any difficulties. It is advantage of Maya that you can create lifelike character and visual effect as natural in it very beautifully. If you are familiar with Maya basic tools and commands, then you can create dream work with the extended features of Maya 2011. This new version of Maya 2011 has wonderful features for character animation and skinning tools modifiers. Because of these advanced features the user can creates the character much faster and it also helps you to improve the production level of characters. These characters are generated for game development and film industries.

You have seen many English movies that are produced under the animation application. In Hollywood there is much trend of 3d movies and it is because that many of 3d movies have won awards. It was some detail about Maya 3d character and 3d modeling but one thing to remember is that all these complex and simple character models are generated through creating icons which are placed on shelf menu. These creating icons cause of building these complex modeling. You can say that shelf menu icons are central unit in modeling of any character. There are dotted lines along with shelf menu which help you to hide or unhide the menu. In this video you are told about some tips and techniques done using shelf menu icons.

Autodesk Maya 2011 is great 3D animation software. Here we shall teach you all the tips and techniques about how to design graphics in this 3D animation program Autodesk Maya 2011.
This free tutorial video series is about how work in the improved edition of the 3D animation software that is Autodesk Maya 2011. You will come to know in this specific free tutorial video about how quickly UV map 3D polygon model in Autodesk Maya 2011 and then importing image to the Mud box and exporting image from the Mud box to Autodesk Maya 2011.

This free tutorial video explains following points in 3D animation software Autodesk Maya 2011:
- essential UV Mapping
- Importing into Mudbox
- essential Mudbox tools
- Exporting from Mudbox plus how to setup it in Maya.

When, you go ahead from basic to advance level in Maya.You will run into the Tools Options. Every tool in Maya version 2010 has many options which help users to set tools according to their needs.

When you enter from the beginner to the learner level in the 3D animating software Autodesk Maya you have now some basic knowledge but still there are many things to know about the Autodesk Maya. You will have to know each and every tool of the Autodesk Maya in order to jump into the next level. Here in this video tutorial you will have a better comprehension about creating a new scene in the Autodesk Maya. This tutorial video is the best way to learn the new scene creation in the Autodesk Maya. You will learn each and every option and setting which you will have to set in the creation of a new scene for beginning with a new job in Maya.

This tutorial video tells how you can use the poly bridge tool in Autodesk Maya 2010. There is an improvement in this version Autodesk Maya. You can do a job in much better way in this version of Maya which Autodesk has launched that is you can choose a set for the particular purpose and only that set of tools and commands will be available in much more details on the side bars and shelf tabs etc. the tool being told here open under the polygon menu set. You can find here all the most helping free tutorial videos on this website and learn Maya in much better way.

Short video tutorials about how to use Maya tools

Here you will find short tutorials about Maya Tools. Autodesk Maya 2010 has a long list of tools which we use during our modeling or animation. We have decided to open this section in which we will make short tutorial. In these video tutorials discuss every possible technique of using tools. These tutorials will help full and time saving for intermediate and advance user, also for beginner or newbie.
Autodesk has launched new version of Maya 2011. There is little bit change in tools and UI too. But still we are using Maya 2010 for these video tutorials. Further we will touch Maya 2011. In this section of Maya video Tutorials we will also include short video tutorials of modeling and animation. We have decided to make short tutorials because we have a lot of visitor who are visiting our site since we have launched our site. Now, we will make some advance tutorials which will be beneficial for advance and intermediate users and also for beginners.