Free Practice Questions for ACU Maya

UI & Scene Management

Navigating the interface and viewports, selecting and transforming objects, repositioning pivots, and organizing scenes with the Outliner, groups, display layers, and the Channel Box and Attribute Editor.

Modeling

Polygon and NURBS modeling, primitives, EP/CV curve tools, extrude, bevel, insert edge loop, combine and merge, smooth mesh preview, normals, and modeling aids such as snapping and image planes.

Cameras

Perspective versus orthographic cameras, focal length, near and far clip planes, resolution and film gates, and framing shots for render output.

Lighting

Directional, point, spot, area, ambient, and volume lights, intensity and decay rate, look-through placement, and depth map versus raytraced shadows.

Materials & Shading (incl. UVs)

Lambert, Blinn, Phong, and aiStandardSurface materials, the Hypershade and shading groups, color and bump mapping, transparency and incandescence, and UV cut, sew, unfold, and layout.

Rigging

Building a skeleton with the Joint tool, binding skin, editing skin weights to fix deformation, and forward versus inverse kinematics fundamentals.

Animation

Setting keyframes, using the Time Slider and Range Slider, editing animation curves and tangents in the Graph Editor for easing, motion paths, and real-time playback and playblasts.

Rendering

Render Settings, the Arnold renderer, output resolution and sampling, the Render View and render regions, batch rendering, alpha-capable file formats, and render passes (AOVs).