TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meade,Tom
AU  - Arima,Shinsaku
TI  - Maya 8 : :  the complete reference / 
SN  - 0071485961 (set)
U1  - 006.696   22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York : 
PB  -  McGraw-Hill, 
KW  - Maya (Computer file)
KW  - CIT
KW  - Three-dimensional display systems
KW  - Cartoon characters
N1  - Includes index; Introduction to Maya -- Chapter 1 Core Concepts -- Chapter 2 The Maya UI (3D Modeling) -- Chapter 3 Polygonal Modeling -- Chapter 4 Organic Modeling (modeling a head) -- Chapter 5 NURBS basics -- Chapter 6 Hard Surface Modeling with NURBS (Modeling an Airplane) -- Chapter 7 Preparing Models for animation (Character Setup) -- Chapter 8 Introduction to deformers -- Chapter 9 Skin Deformers (joints) -- Chapter 10 Additional Deformers -- Chapter 11 Connecting Nodes -- Chapter 12 Character Controls -- Chapter 13 MEL Scripting -- Chapter 14 Full Body IK (Animation) -- Chapter 15 Animation Basics -- Chapter 16 Character Animation -- Chapter 17 Animation Pipeline (Using Motion Capture) (Texturing Lighting and Rendering) -- Chapter 18 Texture and Lighting Basics -- Chapter 19 Texturing in practice (Texture Hard Surface Object) (Texture Organic Model (Head) -- Chapter 20 Maya paint -- Chapter 21 Lighting (Types of lights) (Lighting Indoor Scenes) (Lighting) (Particles, Emitters, and Fields) -- Chapter 22 Particles and Fields -- Chapter 23 Advanced Particle Systems and effects -- Chapter 24 Rigid and Sorf Body Dynamics -- Chapter 25 Maya Hair -- Chapter 26 Maya Cloth (Post Production) -- Chapter 27 Rendering for Post-Production -- Chapter 28 Compositing in Post-Prod (Case Study) -- Chapter 29 The making of the Worm
N2  - Written by the Maya experts who create special effects for today' s blockbuster moviesHere is a thorough update of our critically acclaimed Maya 6 book, complete with spectacular new examples and tutorials on the new features in Maya 8. In this book, special-effects gurus explain how to use this state-of-the-art software to produce brilliant, believable content for film and TV, video games, Web design, and print.Maya 8: The Complete Reference explains the entire production pipeline from easy-to-follow tutorials that will help you master modeling, texturing, animation, rendering, postproduction, and much more
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