Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Placing 3D Models in the Scene 1

A course by John Bashyam , Digital Artist and Director

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About the video: Placing 3D Models in the Scene 1

Overview

“The third step will be to import and place the 3D donuts and helicopters on the scene.”

In this video lesson John Bashyam addresses the topic: Placing 3D Models in the Scene 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects. Learn the VFX pipeline from start to finish, and create a realistic video with surreal elements by rendering and compositing objects into live action footage.

Partial transcription of the video

“So now that we've done the layout and scene scale in Maya, we'll learn how to populate our scene by placing our 3D objects of donuts and helicopters. All right, so now that we've gone ahead and put in all of our tracking data in the scene and made sure everything's lined up And There's no issues there. We've set the scale. we're ready to go ahead and import our 3D models. You can just use the models that I've provided as part of this course. or you can download your own online on various stock 3D model websites. Since I'm not going to be covering modeling in this, I'll quickly just kind of ...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to VFX in Maya and After Effects

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (41)
2521 students
5 units
30 lessons (7h 5m)
7 downloads

Category
3D & Animation
Software
Adobe After Effects, Maya
Areas
3D, 3D Animation, 3D Modeling, Animation, Audiovisual Post-production, Character Animation, Film, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX, Video Editing

John Bashyam

A course by John Bashyam

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Digital Artist and Director

John Bashyam is a digital artist, director, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in film and animation, he went on to co-found Warm & Fuzzy, an animation, visual effects, and design studio with offices in LA and Colorado.

His studio is on the cutting edge of digital technology, servicing some of the top brands in the world, including Nike, adidas, New Balance, Honda, Budweiser, Reddit, Facebook, NBC, Apple, Disney, and Lululemon, among others. He’s also worked on films like Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant Man, Ghostbusters, The Finest Hours, The Shallows, The Walk, and Unbroken, and as a visual effects artist at Coachella for artists like The Weeknd, Muse, ACDC, Guns N’ Roses, Skrillex, Kaskade, Zedd, Kid Cudi, and many more.