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In Maya 2009 New Features, George Maestri demonstrates several breakthrough updates in the latest version of this 3D modeling, rendering, and animation tool. He explores the upgrades to the interface and covers soft selection and other modeling tools. George then delves into more complex new features, including the Asset Manager for organizing objects and nodes within a scene; animation layering to blend, merge, group, reorder, override, and add to preceding layers; Maya Muscle, for creating lifelike skin motion; and nParticles, a new particle system. Exercise files accompany the course.

Course Maya 2009 New Features Author George Maestri SKU ISBN Release Date 2008-12-11 Duration 1.40 hrs / 29 tutorials Work files Yes Price $ 29.95 Retail price $ 59.95 Language Tags Maya, New Features

1. Working with the New Interface and Selection Tools Using the new Panel toolbar 03:03 Using the improved selection tools 03:30 Working with the new soft selection tools 02:45 Making selections with Drag Select 01:47 Making multi-component selections 01:28 Selecting portions of edge and face loops 01:28 2. Organizing with Maya Assets Creating assets 04:47 Editing assets 02:55 Modifying asset attributes 03:09 3. Creating Maya Muscles Introducing the Maya Muscle system 02:32 Setting up a muscle system 05:40 Using Muscle Creator to create and edit muscles 07:29 Using Muscle Builder to sculpt deformable muscles 04:49 Modifying muscle bulge and jiggle using Muscle parameters 04:25 Sculpting muscle shapes 03:21

Painting muscle weights 02:13 4. Working with nParticles Introducing nParticles 01:27 Creating emitters 06:31 Working with particle attributes 07:18 Adding forces to particle systems 05:29 Creating particle collisions 03:56 Creating collision events 03:47 5. Animating with Animation Layers Working in the animation layer interface 05:19 Creating animation layers 04:35 Editing animation layers 01:40 Exporting animation layers 01:55 Conclusion Goodbye 00:15