Introducing Maya 5

3D for Beginners

Dariush Derakhshani

360 pages, parution le 06/11/2003

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Résumé

Alias' Academy Award® winning Maya 3D animation and effects software leads the industry in technological innovation. Film and video artists, computer game developers, and design professionals rely on Maya to create brilliant digital imagery, animation, and visual effects. Now you can enter this exciting, imaginative world and learn to build, render, and animate your own digital characters and scenes.

Brought to you from Maya Press, a publishing partnership between Sybex and Alias, Introducing Maya 5: 3D for Beginners is the ideal initiation to 3D and Maya. This easy-to-grasp tutorial, written explicitly for the Maya novice, offers up a practical and fun approach to learning Maya's core features. Clear-cut, engaging lessons let you try out these features using working files provided on the CD. The CD and full-color insert also provide plenty of instructional and finished art.

Enter a New Dimension

Get a solid grasp of the core Maya and 3D
Learn to navigate the Maya interface
Experiment with Maya modeling
Explore the basics of NURBS, polygons, and subdivision surfaces
Learn the nuances of shading and texturing
Try your hand at animation
Get a feel for Maya lighting, rendering, and dynamics

The enclosed CD features images, movies, and scene files that let you view material from the book right on your own computer. Includes Maya Personal Learning Edition version 5 software!

Introduction
Introduction to Computer Graphics and 3D
The Maya Interface
Your First Maya Animation
Modeling with NURBS
Modeling with Polygons
Further Modeling Topics
Maya Shading and Texturing
Introduction to Animation
Further Animation Topics
Maya Lighting
Maya Rendering
Maya Dynamics
Index

L'auteur - Dariush Derakhshani

Dariush Derakhshani is an award-winning animator currently working on national TV commercials and music videos and teaching Maya and animation classes in Los Angeles. He has won the Bronze Plaque from the Columbus Film Festival and shares accolades from the London International Advertising Festival and the AICP. Dariush, a contributing author to Sybex's Maya® 5 Savvy and Maya: Secrets of the Pros, received a masters degree in Animation from USC Film School.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Sybex
Auteur(s)	Dariush Derakhshani
Parution	06/11/2003
Nb. de pages	360
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	815g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780782142396