Useful Documents

• You may find this Beginner’s Guide useful as we introduce various material. It could help you get up to speed in Maya.
• For more information on shaders, read over this sample. The full book, The Art of Maya, is available in the Randall Library.
• Here is a good tutorial by Alias on using envSky in Maya to create skies. There is also a .zip file with example material. (Look for similar functionality under Mental Ray, too).
• Poetics by Aristotle.

Story/boarding materials:

• Shot-list template, courtesy of Scribd.com.
• Storyboard template.
• Single Frame 16:9 storyboard template.
• Famous Artists Course excerpt on composition, courtesy of ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive.

A website that has many of Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic sequences.