Internship
- DMP website ~ http://parasol.tamu.edu/dmp/
- CRA-W DMP website ~ http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/dmp/index.php
Carnegie Mellon University
- CMU Graphics ~ http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/
- CMU Robotics ~ http://www.ri.cmu.edu/
- Motion Capture Lab ~ http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/
Housing
- Craigslist ~ http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/sub
A very good place to look for apartments in Pittsburgh. - HousingMaps ~ http://www.housingmaps.com/
Craigslist-GoogleMaps combo site! - FrontListings ~ http://frontlistings.com/
Another place to look for housing (generally, rent is more expensive than on craigslist) - The first weeks at Carnegie Mellon University ~ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~barbic/cmu-start.html
A guide Written by a CMU PhD student for new students to help them settle into life in Pittsburgh
Maya Resources
Maya (software)Developed by Alias Systems Corporation, now owned by Autodesk
Latest release 2008 (9.0) / September 2007
OS Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Genre 3D computer graphics
Website www.autodesk.com/maya
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(software)
- Art of Maya ~ http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/art_of_maya.pdf
An all-encompassing overview of Maya all in one PDF file provided by Autodesk. - Maya Tutorials Database ~ http://www.learning-maya.com/23-0-modeling-tutorials.html
An excellent website with very helpful and easy-to-follow tutorials. (Unfortunately, some of the links are broken). Check out their Spline IK setup in Maya http://www.learning-maya.com/index.php?article_id=267&id=492 - Maya manual by D. Lavender ~ http://books.google.com/books?id=Z1cRWS3_XRIC
Gives you a brief intoduction to Maya and its basics. - Maya Resources ~ http://www.darklynx.com/webpages/resource/maya/comp_maya.htm
A very brief overview of the various Maya tools. - Character Rigging In Maya (Tutorials) ~ http://en.9jcg.com/comm_pages/blog_topic_clist-id-8.htm
- Learn Maya 8.5, Part 1 ~ http://youtube.com/watch?v=qmBs0yNKVkQ
A more visual introduction to Maya (although a little bit outdated). Part 1 is an overview of what this YouTube project by Robert Consoli is about. The rest of the tutorials actually show how to work in Maya. - Using Maya: Character Setup ~ http://caad.arch.ethz.ch/info/maya/manual/UserGuide/CharSetup/
The website is apparently based on the book, which "describes the Animation menu set's Deform, Skeleton, Skin, Constrain, and Character menus. " - Weighting Lattice Points ~ http://www.network54.com/Forum/28678/message/951335159/
- Maya 3D Tutorials: motion path ~ http://e3d.uv.ro/tutorials/maya/animation/animation191.php
- General advice for Maya ~ http://www.techiwarehouse.com/cms/engine.php?page_id=5ec2b170
A really great website with great tips from a professional