- Paperback: 1840 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (20 Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0470474432
- ISBN-13: 978-0470474433
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 19.8 x 10.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 746,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Your one–stop resource for getting up to speed on Autodesk Maya 2009
The Learning Autodesk Maya 2009 Collection is your key to unlocking the power of Autodesk Maya. The official training guides in this special collection cover all stages of the Maya 3D production pipeline from start to finish. Each book includes step–by–step lessons using real–world production files and a DVD packed with free 3D models from TurboSquid, plus instructor–led videos, and much more.
Learning Autodesk Maya 2009 | Foundation
With this book, you will
- Get a project–based introduction to Maya 2009 with artwork from the feature film Delgo
- Explore the Maya user interface and 3D workspace
- Build a character with polygons and create organic structures with NURBS
- Learn to use Trax, animation layers, forward and inverse kinematics, and Paint Effects
- Set cameras and lights, and create and apply shaders and textures
- Discover rendering techniques, particles, dynamics, Maya Embedded Language (MEL), and Autodesk Toxik
Learning Autodesk Maya 2009 | The Modeling & Animation Handbook
With this book, you will:
- Get hands–on instruction to production–quality modeling and animation using artwork from the animated short Theme Planet
- Model with polygons and NURBS
- Work with skeletons, joint orientation, and inverse kinematics
- Set up a leg, arm, and spine, and create constraints
- Skin your characters and work with blend shapes
- Create a run cycle and keyframed animation and animate a complete scene
Learning Autodesk Maya 2009 | The Special Effects Handbook
With this book, you will:
- Get step–by–step lessons on the final stages of production using artwork from the animated short Theme Planet
- Understand shading, lighting, shadows, and cameras
- Learn rendering with mental ray, hardware, and vector renderers
- Work with caustics, Global Illumination, Final Gathering, and HDRI
- Work with rigid body and particle dynamics and MEL for particle expressions
- Understand particle instancing
- Learn about fluids, fluid collisions, and open water effects
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
First of great delivery for the Xmas rush and price was good.
The books are very well written and has a good DVD to help along aide the books if need be. As I'm starting in the 3D work I wanted a book that wod teach me the basics before I do some personal 3D project, the books goes over all the basic in the first couple of lesson then starts to teach you the amazing thing you can do with maya and once you've finished the first book you've got the second and third books to teach animation and the special effect. All in all very good books for people who want to start in the 3D world that are using maya.
The books are very well written and has a good DVD to help along aide the books if need be. As I'm starting in the 3D work I wanted a book that wod teach me the basics before I do some personal 3D project, the books goes over all the basic in the first couple of lesson then starts to teach you the amazing thing you can do with maya and once you've finished the first book you've got the second and third books to teach animation and the special effect. All in all very good books for people who want to start in the 3D world that are using maya.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
not the best books at all to learn
24 April 2009
I feel sorry for anyone who has not worked in Maya before that gets these books. Having gone through two of them, I find myself hurling the book against the wall more and more. Steps are not detailed at all. Explanations will be tweak the vertices until you get a shape like this...Sorry, but that type of short hand does not help when trying to match a 2D image with a 3D model, not to mention they state to use certain views, which is impossible to match the required shape using the specified views. You just end up reading the steps, then opening up their files to inspect how they made the shape. Also note the instructor videos are about 3 minutes long and do not really help at all.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Great Books
9 Mar 2009
These are some great books, I wish i didn't have to of waited for 3 months to get them to me. The books themselves are great teaching resources. But the box they come in which seems to be why it took so long for the set to come out. Is very poor worksmanship and product design. I've had my books since Friday, and the moment i took them out of the box all 3 books fell through the back part of the box and ripped it, makeing it useless to hold the books together, as a set. Other than that great set of books shouldn't of taken 3 months after the singles came out though, just to make a crappy box.
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