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CAA Careers: 8 ultra-useful Maya tips for beginners - in under 4 minutes!

Ok, so I know that none of you are strictly Maya beginners anymore, but here is a useful little video produced by David Mattock, of Full Rotation Design and Animation, that covers some of the basics - here's what is featured! TIP 01 :  Focus the camera on one area   | Video timecode: 0.05 TIP 02 :  Snapping like a pro    | Video timecode: 0.22 TIP 03 :  Move multiple keyframes   | Video timecode: 0.54 TIP 04 :  Move the pivot point    | Video timecode: 1.15 TIP 05 :  Soft selection   | Video timecode: 1.36 TIP 06 :  Duplicate special    | Video timecode: 1.53 TIP 07 :  Texture to polys    | Video timecode: 2.24 TIP 08 :  Combine two objects & Bridging     | Video timecode: 2.58 Watch the video HERE You can find out more about Full Rotation HERE

Unreal engine

Now I want to try out Unreal Engine 3 and I know that it is free to use, but I had a little problem before downloading it from the official page. There are still some necessary licensing things to do, so I was asked to give all of my details and I received this report: "We would love to help but we have a policy not to discuss terms for Unreal Engine 3 source code licenses with potential licensees e-mailing with public ISP email addresses or free email service (hotmail, yahoo, qmail, virgin.net, etc). We can only deal with established, properly registered companies that have their own domain name and e-mail services." The main question is what do I have to do to get that engine? Would our university's email work on this? I tried to send myself email from yahoo account before trying it out on the unreal page, but it didn't worked out. My interest in it grew rapidly after watching some videos of what it can do and how it pretty much works. If anybody els...