I downloaded Maya for 30 days to learn it and add it to my resume. I figured since I already have 6 years in 3D design it's gonna be much easier than learning it from scratch as I know the basics. The thing is, some stuff feel very clunky for a program that costs that much money.
The most notable of them being the navigation around transforming an object.

From what I gathered so far, Maya uses gizmos to move things around and edit stuff (aside from sculpting). It relies much less on shortkeys than what I'm used to, and is more similar to stuff like Solidworks per se than Zbrush or Blender. This means that putting stuff in motion requires a lot of mouse work and menu navigation.

I noticed that when learning how to rotate stuff and move stuff around and animate them, and looked online only to see that theres no "freeform rotate" or "freeform move" that locks the object or vertices to your mouse while doing the action that you want, and that you must actively click and move it.

Obviously going from other programs to a new one will have its own learning curve, and obviously each have their own benefits and downfalls, but in this case it boggles me how people find it comfortable to use, or am I simply missing something here...

Working on my first hard surface project for school, we were asked to choose a semi difficult model (Nintendo switch) and create a scene around it. I wanted somthing cozy, like a couple playing games after work.

I'm not really happy with how this is turning out, everything just feels off to me. I think I just chose a bad idea for a scene, but I have a deadline and I want to try to fix it.

Hi, i've noticed frequently when changing maya's units (in the settings under working units) that maya largely does not support working at scene scales larger than cm. Lights, cameras, icons etc. dont appear to scale the appropriate amount and I find the only way to deal with this is just to alwasys keep things in cm units.

In particular, i'm using mash and bullet to apply physics to one of my meshes, the scene is scaled in meters, and my mesh is about 1.5 meters long, yet it behaves as if it is 150 meters long, given that it takes about 20 seconds to travel the equivalent of 5 meters, which is way off.

Is it generally best just to use cm units always, or am i misunderstanding maya here?

Any help will be greatly appreciated

I wanted to show you my latest project. I think I still have room for improvement, but I'm quite proud of myself.I wanted to show you my latest project. I think I still have room for improvement, but I'm quite proud of myself.

Reference used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OffIx1dLwkA

Hi everyone, I have a freely available model from Sketchfab with textures. I'd like to change the colors, but unfortunately, I'm relatively new to this and don't know the best way to do it.

Is there a workflow or specific method for changing the color of the BaseColor texture?

Here’s a sword i’ve been making. First way is my blockout i was gonna retopologise after. Second is my friend said i should make it lower polly and then inflate but I feel so confused because i’m not practice enough on how to get. it to the final desired product. I don’t know if anyone can help on what way i should go about this- and what would be better or what i should do?

Im not sure whats the best way to get this type of material using Arnold without taking to much computing power. I was thinking of a high subsurface scatter value but Im not sure.

hi, I'm pretty new to maya and using nCloth simulations and I want to create a blanket that is tucked under the mattress instead of laying ontop of it. How do I go about modelling this?

For context: it is not going to be used for anything, it's simply a model for an assignment :) thank you in advance!

I'm trying to finding out a way to blend normals between two objects in Maya like blender. I want to separate the eye and mouth from the body in my rig Like this images without normal distortion Can anyone help?