Modo 2019 Essential Training

Course details

MODO offers artists a powerful 3D platform for modeling, rendering, texturing, and animating. MODO is popular amongst pre-visualization artists and in feature film art departments due to its efficient and intuitive modeling and rendering features. This essential training brings you up to speed with the basics of using MODO providing a solid foundation for further study, including such topics as modeling, texture mapping, shading, rigging, and more. Join instructor Richard Yot as he introduces concepts that make MODO different from other 3D tools as well as workflows for modeling, lighting, and rendering beautiful 3D objects.

Learning objectives
3D workflow
MODO fundamentals
What makes MODO unique
Customizing the interface
Modeling tools
Procedural modeling
UV mapping
Shading and texturing
Lighting and rendering
Rigging

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Modo 2019 essentials

1. Modo Introduction

02 - Overview of the Modo interface
03 - The Modo layout
04 - Using tools in Modo
05 - Items vs. components

2. 3D Workflow Quick Start

06 - Creating a speaker 1 - Building the enclosure
07 - Creating a speaker 2 - Modeling the holes
08 - Creating a speaker 3 - Modeling the mesh details, part 1
09 - Creating a speaker 4 - Modelling the mesh details, part 2
10 - Creating a speaker 5 - Assigning materials
11 - Creating a speaker 6 - Lighting and materials
12 - Creating a speaker 7 - Final render

3. Concepts - What Makes Modo Different

13 - The Work Plane
14 - Action centers
15 - Falloffs
16 - Constraints
17 - Sculpting and painting tools

4. Modeling Tools

18 - Destructive vs. nondestructive
19 - Edge flow
20 - Adding edges and cutting
21 - Extruding and beveling
22 - Deformations
23 - Curves
24 - Backdrop items
25 - Duplication
26 - Selections

5. Procedural Modeling

27 - The mesh operations stack
28 - Merge Meshes
29 - Curve Fill
30 - Curve sweep
31 - Creating a spring
32 - MeshFusion

6. UV Mapping

33 - Understanding UV mapping workflow
34 - Unwrap and pack
35 - Projections
36 - Rectangle, cut, move, and sew
37 - Cut Map
38 - UV Relax tool

7. Shading and Texturing

39 - The Shader Tree, applying materials, and polygon tags
40 - Item masks and overrides
41 - Selecting materials
42 - PBR vs. Principled shader
43 - Mapping basics - Diffuse and bump
44 - Mapping walkthrough
45 - Procedural textures
46 - Displacement and normal maps
47 - Duplicating and instancing
48 - Preset Browser

8. Lighting and Rendering

49 - Understanding lighting and rendering
50 - CG lights
51 - HDR lighting
52 - Camera parameters
53 - Preview renderer
54 - Bucket rendering
55 - Render passes
56 - Advanced compositing techniques

9. Rigging

57 - Overview of the rigging process
58 - Locators
59 - Hierarchies
60 - Assigning commands
61 - User channels and the Schematic view
62 - Bones and deformers

10. Duplication

63 - Instances
64 - Replicators
65 - Deferred meshes

11. Customizing the Interface

66 - Slash and burn, collapsible panels, and color coding
67 - Workbench

12. Project-Based Section

68 - Setting up the project
69 - Creating the side panel
70 - Continuing the side panel
71 - Finishing the side panel
72 - Creating the control panel
73 - UV unwrapping the control panel
74 - Texturing the control panel
75 - Creating the rear of the control panel
76 - Creating the key bed
77 - Modeling the keyboard template
78 - Creating the black keys
79 - Creating the white keys
80 - Editing the white keys
81 - Duplicating the white keys
82 - Creating the dials
83 - Duplicating the dials
84 - Creating the switches
85 - Modeling the LED
86 - Assigning materials
87 - Setting up the camera and lighting
88 - Creating the wood texture
89 - Texturing the dials
90 - Texturing the LED
91 - Final shading and rendering

Conclusion

92 - Next steps