Introducing Autodesk Maya is the official guide to the most popular and complex 3D application on the market. Building from the ground up, this book combines straightforward text with practical examples that make it easy to absorb the basics and start designing and animating your own digital models and scenes.

The tutorials offer realistic challenges and clear explanations, laid out in fun, step-by-step lessons that help you gain confidence and learn by doing. You’ll delve into CG and 3D core concepts and production workflows, then get right to work designing an animation of the solar system as you learn the interface and basic tools. As your modeling skills grow, you’ll build a steam locomotive, a starfish, a table lamp, and much more as you learn to rig your model for animation, create fabric motion with nCloth, and add the lighting and effects that bring your scenes to life.

The companion website features downloadable project files that help you see how the pros do it, and the book includes real-world examples from talented users who were beginners just like you. If you want to work like the pros, Introducing Autodesk Maya is the perfect primer for getting started. Dariush Derakhshani. Start modeling right away with this hands-on guide to learning Autodesk Maya Introducing Autodesk Maya is the official guide to the most popular and complex 3D application on the market.

Master the Maya interface, menus, and plug-ins Begin building simple animations right away Explore modeling, rendering, animation, and cloth motion Add lighting, rendering, dynamics, simulations, and effects If you want to work like the pros, Introducing Autodesk Maya is the perfect primer for getting started.

Jumping into Basic Animation Headfirst. Beginning Polygonal Modeling. Practical Experience. Introduction to Animation. More Animation. Autodesk Maya Lighting. Autodesk Maya Rendering.

Autodesk Maya Dynamics and Effects. Wiley End User License Agreement. Dariush is coauthor of the Autodesk 3ds Max series of books. Introduction to Computer Graphics and 3D.

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Dariush is coauthor of the Autodesk 3ds Max series of books. Start modeling right away with this hands-on guide to learning Autodesk Maya Introducing Autodesk Maya is the official guide to the most popular and complex 3D application on the market. Master the Maya interface, menus, and plug-ins Begin building simple animations right away Explore modeling, rendering, animation, and cloth motion Add lighting, rendering, dynamics, simulations, and effects If you want to work like the pros, Introducing Autodesk Maya is the perfect primer for getting started.

Smartphones and tablets. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are. Start your free trial. Book description Start modeling right away with this hands-on guide to learning Autodesk Maya Introducing Autodesk Maya is the official guide to the most popular and complex 3D application on the market. Master the Maya interface, menus, and plug-ins Begin building simple animations right away Explore modeling, rendering, animation, and cloth motion Add lighting, rendering, dynamics, simulations, and effects If you want to work like the pros, Introducing Autodesk Maya is the perfect primer for getting started.

Show and hide more. Very useful book for a beginner xDD. Despite having access to Lynda. I am moving from 3DS Max to Maya and I wanted a book to gel the core concepts of modeling and shading, as well as animating, rigging, constraints Other than changes from to Maya, primarily a change in renderer Mental Ray to Arnold , as well as MASH unlikely to be covered in an intro book , this book applies well to Maya I found the book very practical, with interesting projects that could be completed in a reasonable amount of time, and reinforced key concepts.

I would recommend this book for anyone new to Maya or moving from another 3D software package. I would have given this book a 5 star rating, but the picture quality in the text is poor. This is likely a combination of the printing, as well as image contrast and magnification.

Some of the topics are complex e. UV Mapping, rigging and poor images make the topic more difficult to follow. There had at one time been videos online to demonstrate the content, but only a few can still be found on YouTube. My only other comment relates to efficiency. I wondered why the author created a “virtual studio” of planes for modeling, instead of using the built in image plane functionality.

With the image planes you simply import an image for top, front, side views and move them back in their respective planes. Instead he has you build this from scratch. In the same vein, short-cut key creation could have been introduced for some common repetitive menu tasks such as center pivot, delete history, freeze transformations.

In summary, this is a very well written book and I would highly recommend it, despite its being outdated for the version of Maya. As far as I can tell, it was updated for more than a decade of revisions since , and its content appears to have greatly benefited from both revisions as well as the authors own extensive experience. It would be a shame if Sybex and Autodesk let this book fall into “out of print,” even when online tutorials have largely taken over.

If they do print a sequel in the future, I would recommend they improve the printed image quality which by the way, was just as poor in the Kindle versions of their Mastering Maya book. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Back to top. Get to Know Us. Item Information Condition:. Brand New Brand New. Approximately EUR Add to cart.

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