Buy and Download - Lynda.com Modo 701 Essential Training with Ellery Connell

2013
Lynda.com
Ellery Connell
05:20:00
English

While product designers have been using Modo for years, it never really caught on with VFX artists or character animators. However, when The Foundry and Luxology joined forces, Modo 701 was born—a high-caliber, end-to-end solution for 3D modeling and rendering. Find out how to use Modo 701 to bring your 3D project to life in this course with animator Ellery Connell. Learn to use its polygonal and subdivision modeling tools, sculpt and retopologize meshes, and build materials that give your surfaces realistic detail. Then Ellery walks through its lighting and animation modules. The course also covers dynamics, particles, and rendering, giving you the skills to start modeling everything from product visualizations to game characters with Modo 701.

Topics include:
Navigating 3D space in Modo
Working with primitives
Modeling polygons
Managing topology
Modeling with SubDs
Sculpting meshes
Shading and painting with textures
Working with Global Illumination and object-based lighting
Animating with constraints and bones
Tagging dynamic objects
Building particle simulations
Adjusting your render settings

Introduction 1m 22s
Welcome 49s
Using the exercise files 33s
1. 3D in Modo 37m 13s
Basics of the Modo user interface 4m 22s
Customizing the interface 2m 43s
Navigating 3D space in Modo 2m 6s
Using the Work Plane 3m 10s
Using transform tools 3m 22s
Understanding Action Centers 5m 18s
Understanding falloffs 9m 18s
Understanding the Tool Pipe 3m 21s
Using items, components, and meshes 3m 33s
2. Modeling Concepts 49m 2s
Exploring geometric primitives 6m 38s
Creating free-form primitives 7m 24s
Making selections 6m 7s
Using basic polygonal editing tools 5m 38s
Creating custom modeling tools 4m 30s
Manipulating organic objects 4m 45s
Working with mesh subdivision 3m 19s
Modeling with object duplication 5m 35s
Understanding replicators 5m 6s
3. Modeling with SubDs 29m 14s
Introducing subdivision surfaces 3m 5s
Comparing SubDs and PSubs 2m 35s
Creating details in SubD models 4m 52s
Creating creases and sharp edges in SubDs 8m 12s
Building complex surfaces with SubDs 8m 11s
Understanding the drawbacks and issues with SubDs 2m 19s
4. Sculpting and Retopology 30m 50s
Using multiresolution meshes 2m 23s
Understanding sculpting tools 4m 14s
Using sculpting brushes 5m 52s
Implementing masks and Image Ink 5m 37s
Creating basic retopology 3m 13s
Using advanced retopology options 3m 34s
Baking additional details to a retopologized mesh 5m 57s
5. Materials 1h 8m
Understanding shaders, materials, and textures 2m 51s
Introducing the Shader Tree 3m 2s
Understanding Material Ref settings 6m 35s
Understanding Material Trans settings 8m 24s
Utilizing procedural textures 7m 0s
The basics of creating UV maps 7m 7s
Using advanced UV techniques 6m 42s
Understanding image-based textures 5m 59s
Painting textures 4m 14s
Making advanced use of the Shader Tree 7m 27s
Creating complex single-layer materials 5m 13s
Designing complex multilayer materials 4m 4s
6. Lighting 31m 32s
Understanding lighting in 3D space 1m 57s
Using direct lights 5m 59s
Understanding global illumination (GI) 2m 45s
Working with object-based lighting 2m 36s
Lighting with HDRIs 3m 59s
Using Physical Sun and Sky 3m 50s
Baking illumination 6m 45s
Understanding GI considerations 3m 41s
7. Animation 36m 20s
Understanding animation in Modo 1m 12s
Creating keyframes 5m 36s
Using the Graph Editor 5m 23s
Animating with constraints 5m 53s
Animating with bones and joints 4m 10s
Weighting objects 4m 9s
Implementing inverse kinematics 4m 18s
Introducing dynamics 2m 48s
Introducing particles 2m 51s
8. Rendering 37m 28s
Understanding rendering in Modo 4m 19s
Adjusting basic render settings 4m 29s
Adjusting GI quality 6m 59s
Using the preview render 4m 42s
Using camera render options 5m 1s
Adding render outputs 6m 30s
Working with render passes 5m 28s
Conclusion 45s
Next steps 45s

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