In Autodesk Maya, what is the difference between Forward Kinematics (FK) and Inverse Kinematics (IK)?

When navigating to

Attributes Editor > Camera Attributes > Controls dropdown

for a camera, which of these camera types would be visible within the dropdown menu?

Fill in the blank: To open the attribute editor, you must use the keyboard shortcut ____________.

What is the name of the material within the Attributes Editor of this material?

Within the screenshot on the left, which is the safe action gate?

You wish to set up and configure a new Maya project on a shared network drive to be used by a small team.

In Maya, what would you open to create and configure a new project?

Which file is required in your Maya project directory in order for Maya to recognize the project?

Which of these file names utilize the Maya ASCII format?

In the Viewport, you wish to change the grid so that grid lines appear every 10 units.

You can find these settings by going where?

An artist is creating an interior scene and wants to change their scene's working units from centimeters to feet.

In the Preferences window, they can find this setting in which category?

If a 3D artist wishes to make 3 copies of a cube, each 6.5 units apart on the X-axis, what parameters might need to change when he or she navigates to Edit > Duplicate Special, and clicking on the window on the right?

You wish to unparent polySurface4 from the Lamp group node in the hierarchy shown below. With polySurface4 selected, how would you perform this unparent operation? (Choose 2)

Fill in the blank: When changing the pivot point of a cube to its bottom face, one must press the D key and pressing the ___ key (snap to vertex) to snap the pivot point to the middle of the bottom face.

Mr. Daly encompassed his spherical model with a cube by accident (OH NO!) and can't see the sphere within the cube! What key should Mr. Daly use to enable wireframe mode to view the cube?

Under which viewport dropdown can you find the option to enable/disable shadows?

True or False: Interactive creation can be enabled for both polygon primitives and NURBS primitives.

True or False: To view the total polygon count in a scene, one must navigate to Display >> Heads Up Display >> Check Poly Count.

The two capsules below have identical geometry. What operation(s) must you perform on the left capsule so that it looks like the capsule on the right without increasing its geometry?

You have converted a video into a sequence of .PNG image files to use as an animation reference. To create an animated image plane, you import the first image into the viewport using View >> Image plane >> Import image.

As you scrub through the animation timeline, you realize that the image plane is not updating to the matching frame of your video.

What option should you turn on in the attribute editor to enable the playback of your images?

Fill in the blank: You can press the ___ key to enable/disable Soft Selection, or while holding that key down, you can click and drag to change the Falloff Radius.

In Autodesk Maya 2024, you have imported a high-resolution character model from a sculpting program. You need to manually retopologize the model to a game-resolution poly count.

Which tool allows you to manually draw topology on top of live surfaces (pictured below)?

Based on the image on the left, what type of UV mapping projection is being applied to the trash can?

A texture designer merged these three UV planes into one. What operation did the designer use to achieve this solution?

The below trash can's UVs have been adequately cut and unfolded.

After selecting all of the UV shells, which command would you perform to automatically place all of the shells within the 0 to 1 space of the first UV tile?

A Model has been UV unwrapped. Areas tinted in blue indicate where the UVs are what? (Hint: Areas in red indicate stretching, and areas in white indicate optimal UVs with minimal distortion.)

What type of texture map is shown in this image?

What is a Bind Pose?

When rendering a video in Autodesk Arnold, motion blur quality can only be improved by increasing which type of sample count?

If a user wants to orient all the left leg joints with X as the primary axis and Y as the secondary axis, what menu should that user navigate to?

How many total faces are present in the viewport?

A 3D modeler realized the primitive's pivot point is not at the center of the mesh! What is the most efficient method to put the pivot point back to its center?

When navigating to Shadows > Raytrace Shadow Attributes in the Attributes Editor for a spotlight, what is the value for the Ray Depth Limit?

You are trying to zero out the rotation values of all of the cubes in a scene.

True or False: You cannot change attributes on multiple objects at the same time, so you must zero out the rotation of one object at a time.

Which Viewport dropdown would you use to import an image plane as the background of your current view?

True or False: You can assign different materials to individual polygons on an object.

An artist is trying to paint skin weight on his rig. However, each time he finishes painting on one joint and moves to the next one, he notices that weights appear on random parts of the mesh. What practice would prevent this from happening generally?

You are trying to playblast your animation. You have the playblast set to a high resolution and your quality setting is set to 100, but your playblast still comes out blurry. Which of the settings above is causing the playblast to be so blurry?

The Attach to Motion Path tool can only be applied to curves created with which curve tool?

Which of these 2 keys currently has broken tangents?

In order to be able to lock or free the length of tangents, tangents must be set to what?

The ambient light shown above is not bright enough in the final render. Which setting can be changed on the ambient light to make the scene brighter?

Starting with the 2017 release of Autodesk Maya, the program has this 3D rendering application included with the 3D computer animation software.

You wish to render your scene at a 1920 x 1080 resolution. Where would you go to find this setting?

Which of these menus in the Modeling Toolkit enables symmetry editing in the object's Z-axis?

Other than extruding with the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + E, which of these options in the Modeling Toolkit can achieve a similar solution?

Which of the following materials is a Lambert?

For an object that has a Phong material, an artist navigated to Graph > Input and Output Connections in the Hypershade window. What is the name of the node connected to the Normal Camera input of the material?

Fill in the blank: To create an IK handle, one must navigate to the __________ dropdown.

What type of constraint has been applied to AffectedCube2 on Stage_2?

A parent constraint has been applied to AffectedCube1 on Stage_1. AffectedCube1 has been weighted more to pCube5. What is the weight value assigned to pCube5?

What is the focal length of this camera?

What animation principle does this motion graph convey?

Similar to symbol modification in Adobe Animate, this mode in Autodesk Maya 2024 allows you to edit faces, edges, and vertices within that mesh.

In Source Filmmaker or in the Doom or Quake level editor, you can grab individual points of a 3D model and move them. How can you do this in Autodesk Maya?

In Toon Boom Harmony and in Adobe Animate, the feature on the left is prominent in Autodesk Maya as well. What is this feature?

In Adobe Photoshop or in Adobe Illustrator, you can enable pressure sensitivity for the drawing tools in that program. In Autodesk Maya's Paint Effects tool, how can you enable pressure sensitivity?

In Adobe Animate, two keyframes, the first at frame 0 and the other at frame 50, respectively, are in the timeline. When a user moves the second keyframe to frame 100, the animation is slower. is this true for animated objects on the Autodesk Maya timeline?

Which of the following BEST describes the Blend Shape deformer?

What is the syntax to add a single-line comment in a MEL script?

Which of the following is a way to control deformations using a Smooth Bind?

To composite two layers together you would use-

A suitable method to have the spaceship move along the green line shown in the image is:

The ViewCube is an on-screen 3D navigation element that does which of the following? (Choose two.)

Which of the following is true of the Specular Color Attribute in a Blinn Shader?

Which light(s) can be positioned using Look Through Selected Camera?

What does the nConstraint Membership Tool for nCloth allows users to do?

Which file format lets you exchange complex data between Maya and other software while preserving the data's overall behavior?

In Autodesk Maya, what does "Sampling" mean?

The shading network in a Normal 2DTexture Map is made up of which of the following?

Which of the following is NOT a Glow type with the Optical FX attribute?

When choosing an NISC Video Image preset, in addition to image width and height, which other setting is changed?

Which of the following is the button for displaying the Safe Action in Autodesk Maya?

The objects in the left are in their regular forms. Which of these Boolean operations represents a difference operation on both objects?

What is the keyboard shortcut to bevel a cube primitive in Autodesk Maya?

What score are you getting on this certification exam?