Product Description

Here is a comprehensive, hands-on, media tutorial on Maya, the world's leading professional 3-D animation software. Written by a certified instructor, this complete package allows even a novice animator to acquire the professional skills needed to break into the booming professional market. An accompanying CD containing 18 elaborate workshops allows users to learn by actually doing rather than just reading. The CD contains 18 step-by-step workshops, each focusing on an essential animation skill. It offers a rigorous tutorial that allows beginners to create simple animations and progress to sophisticated projects. It teaches how to animate complex furred or clothed characters, and create fluid dynamics animations. It offers tips on how to export to Shockwave, and textures, and includes online upgrades and additional workshops.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1380443 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 750 pages

From the Back Cover
MASTER THE 3-D ANIMATION SOFTWARE THAT'S
REVOLUTIONIZING THE INDUSTRY!

CD-ROM CONTAINS 18 IN-DEPTH WORKSHOPS
FOR HANDS-ON LEARNING

Computer graphics animation is one of the fastest-growing career fields in Hollywood and beyond. Maya skills are an absolute necessity to break into this booming profession. There's no better way to learn this door-opening software tool than the Maya Ultimate Workshop, a rigorous multimedia tutorial that provides the step-by-step guidance needed to go from creating simple animations to sophisticated professional-level projects quickly, easily, and at your own pace.

Written by an internationally-recognized certified Maya instructor, this complete learning package features a CD-ROM with 18 in-depth workshops, each illustrating an essential technique discussed in the text - everything from basic polygon assembly to sophisticated characters and fluid dynamics. Coverage includes:
-Both Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited
-Complete coverage of Maya 5
-Exporting to Shockwave
-Animating complex furred or clothed characters
-Fluid dynamics animation
-Rendering with mental ray for Maya
-Making a Flash image with vector rendering
-Animating characters with and without skin
-Keyframe and non-linear animations
-Modeling in polygons, NURBS and Subdivision Surfaces
-Rendering with complex shaders
-Applying textures
-Programming Maya in MEL (Maya Embedded Language) and using Expressions
-Dynamics with Rigid Bodies and particles animations
-Online updates and additional workshops to keep you abreast of the latest developments and techniques
-And much more

There is no better career investment for anyone who wants to enter the lucrative computer graphics animation field than the Maya Ultimate Workshop.

About the Author
Luc Petitot is a certified Maya instructor who currently teaches classes in French, English, Flemish Dutch and Portuguese. He is also active in the production field as a director or consultant. Mr. Petitot has more than fifteen years' experience in the computer animation field and resides near Brussels, Belgium.