Alias|Wavefront's Maya is the Academy Award winning, premier tool for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering, used by top film houses such as Industrial, Light & Magic, Pixar, and Disney to create 3D animation and special effects. This practical, full-color Maya Press title—produced by the software's creators—is the first Maya 5 book available.

Artists, students, educators, and hobbyists will appreciate this book's comprehensible coverage of 3D and Maya basics. A tested tutorial, Learning Maya 5: Foundation includes more than 20 project-focused lessons that afford hands-on experience with Maya's key tools.

The DVD includes component files plus Beginning Maya ($29.99 US value), a 60-minute introduction to Maya 5, designed to get users up-to-speed quickly on Maya fundamentals. This multi-region DVD offers language tracks in English, French, German, Japanese and Korean.

Contents

• Learning Maya : Foundation
• Understanding Maya
• Lesson 1: Bouncing a ball
• Lesson 2: Adding Character
• Lesson 3: Rendering
• Lesson 4: Particles
• Lesson 5: Working with Maya
• Lesson 6: The Dependency graph
• Lesson 7: Curves and Surfaces
• Lesson 8: Organic Modeling
• Lesson 9: Animation
• Lesson 10: Secondary Animation
• Lesson 11: Rendering
• Lesson 12: Polygonal Spaceship
• Lesson 13: Nurbs Spaceship
• Lesson 14: Animating the Ships
• Lesson 15: Visual Effects
• Lesson 16: Primitive Man
• Lesson 17: Character Control
• Lesson 18: Animating a Walk Cycle
• Lesson 19: Non-linear Animation
• Lesson 20: Building Salty
• Lesson 21: Addind Facial Details
• Lesson 22: Animating Salty
• Lesson 23: Building the Set
• Lesson 24: Texture Mapping
• Lesson 25: Blinking using Mel