How to Cheat in Maya 2012: Tools and Techniques for Character Animation - Softcover

Luhta, Eric; Roy, Kenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240816986 ISBN 13: 9780240816982

Verlag: Taylor & Francis, 2011

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Finally a Maya book for animators! Maya is one of the top 2 software tools available today for animation with 600,000 registered users. Eric Luhta (professional animator) offers walk-throughs of battle-tested essential techniques that will save you time and frustration. Revised for latest release of Maya, "How to Cheat in Maya" provides classic character animation techniques within a Maya framework.

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Eric Luhta is a professional animator whose recent credits include Bioshock 2, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Horton Hears A Who!, and numerous television commercials. Eric has extensive experience with Autodesk's Maya, including teaching it, as an instructor for the Maya Training Program at AnimationMentor.com. He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and 3 computers.

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The Maya guide for animators, How to Cheat in Maya 2012 presents everything you need to know about character animation in Maya. Fully updated for the latest revision of Maya, this book provides you with complete, step-by-step walkthroughs of essential animation techniques to increase your efficiency and speed. This is an animator’s workflow in book form, written by professional animators—not a software book with a few animation pointers thrown in.

In addition to all the gold-mine coverage and interviews with expert animators from the previous edition, How to Cheat in Maya 2012 also features a new in-depth chapter on the principles of animation, updated information on camera settings and animation using Maya’s new Camera Sequencer tool, the ins and outs of the brand new Editable Motion Trails tool, new techniques for working with characters in multi-shot animation tests and short films, a new cycles chapter covering actions like flying and walks, time-saving scripts, and advanced tricks with the new Graph Editor. The proven "How to Cheat" series gets you up to speed quickly, and in a way that’s fun.

How to Cheat in Maya 2012 gives you access to a powerful website (http://www.howtocheatinmaya.com) that includes:

• All exercise/example scene files
• Video tutorials to help you apply cutting-edge, professional techniques to your own animations
• Animation files with new cheats
• All materials from the previous edition of the book

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0240816986
• ISBN 13: 9780240816982
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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