Teaching Autodesk Maya in the classroom
I was one of the first Autodesk 3D Studio Max dealers in the world about 20 years ago. There were a group of three of us who either flu or drove up to Sausalito California to go through training and becoming authorized dealer.
It was a pivotal part of my life for it put me in the direction into computer graphics and digital editing. I started my teaching career about 10 years ago. And for the last for five years I've been trying to bring this product's into my classroom and into my school.
I started my own digital arts – computer science club this year. We have been working with Autodesk one 123-D design, Maya, and now Fusion 360, and it looks like I will not be teaching my first Computer graphics - Digital arts class starting in September,
We now have our Maker bot replicator to printer going and we have printed over 40 students designs in our classroom.
The key to teaching your students Autodesk Maya is to start an early age as possible for them to acquire the basics. Do not get hung up on how hard the product looks or how hard the interface appears to be. Just like math we do not start students at calculus, it takes them five years and five different subjects to get to calculus.
That is the same philosophy to teach Maya or any other high-end computer graphics software package. And I guarantee you since I have doing this for almost 30 years younger students will pick up this package much faster than any adults will.
The key to this, but any other task in life, is the take the first step and get started. The first few steps may be hard but it will get easier as you keep pushing forward
I started my own digital arts – computer science club this year. We have been working with Autodesk one 123-D design, Maya, and now Fusion 360, and it looks like I will not be teaching my first Computer graphics - Digital arts class starting in September,
We now have our Maker bot replicator to printer going and we have printed over 40 students designs in our classroom.
The key to teaching your students Autodesk Maya is to start an early age as possible for them to acquire the basics. Do not get hung up on how hard the product looks or how hard the interface appears to be. Just like math we do not start students at calculus, it takes them five years and five different subjects to get to calculus.
That is the same philosophy to teach Maya or any other high-end computer graphics software package. And I guarantee you since I have doing this for almost 30 years younger students will pick up this package much faster than any adults will.
The key to this, but any other task in life, is the take the first step and get started. The first few steps may be hard but it will get easier as you keep pushing forward
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