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Autodesk Maya 2013 Essentials - Softcover

Naas, Paul

 
9781118167748: Autodesk Maya 2013 Essentials
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1118167740 ISBN 13: 9781118167748
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2012

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Recommnded text for those preparing for the Maya Associate exam

Maya, the industry-leading 3D animation and effects software used in movies, games, cartoons, and commercials, is challenging to learn. This full-color guide features approachable, hands-on exercises and additional task-based tutorials that allow new users to quickly become productive with the program and familiar with its workflow in a professional environment. You'll learn the basics of modeling, texturing, animating, and lighting; explore different parts of the production pipeline; and practice on some real-world projects.

  • Maya is the 3D animation and effects software used in the film, game, and advertising industries; it's a complex program and this book gives beginners essential training in Maya basics
  • This book is an Autodesk Official Training Guide, recommended for students planning to take the Maya Associate exam
  • Provides task-based tutorials and hands-on exercises to get you up to speed and introduce you to production workflows
  • Teaches the basics of modeling, texturing, animating, and lighting
  • Helps you create simple animations, model with polygons, and add detail with blend shapes and surfaces
  • Starting and ending files for the exercises and additional learning tutorials are available online

Autodesk Maya Essentials provides beginners with a solid foundation in Maya 3D software.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paul Naas is a professional animator and educator. He runs the Multimedia and Computer Graphics Program at Cañada College in Redwood City, California, and has done animation work for companies such as Disney, Cisco, bZillions/C2 Gaming, and the Children's Discovery Museum. He is also a professional cartoon artist. He has a Master of Fine Arts in animation from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.

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Learn Autodesk Maya Quickly and Easily

This Autodesk Official Training Guide teaches you the fundamentals of Autodesk Maya. Through step-by-step tutorials, full-color illustrations, and fun, hands-on exercises, this practical book gets you up to speed on modeling, texturing, animating, lighting, and other core Maya topics. Whether you're a beginning animator or just updating your skills on the latest version of the software, this task-based book provides the solid grounding you need.

Learn these Autodesk Maya essentialsand more:

  • The Maya 2013 interface, menus, and tools

  • Simple animationset keyframes, adjust tangents, and more

  • Modeling with polygonsbodies, faces, and cleanup before rigging

  • Adding character with blend shapes and surfaces

  • Building bone structure, adding joints, and weighting joints

  • Rigging, animating, and lighting basics

  • How to render and composite a shot

  • The hows and whys of certain techniques and decisions

Explore vertex weighting to create smooth joint bends

Learn step-by-step how to animate your character

This striking Essentials book features:

  • Chapter-opening learning objectives

  • Step-by-step tutorials

  • Four-color screenshots and illustrations

  • Essentials and Beyondsummaries and additional suggested exercises

  • Downloadable exercise files

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Verlag
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1118167740
ISBN 13 
9781118167748
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
284
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