Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide - Softcover

Keller, Eric

 
9780470111338: Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide
Softcover
ISBN 10: 047011133X ISBN 13: 9780470111338
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 2007

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Create Dazzling Maya Visual Effects Out of Thin Air
 

If you need to create stunning effects on a tight deadline for finicky clients and demanding art directors, this book is for you. Go from Post-it Notes to positively dazzling with the unique insights and practical advice in this innovative guide from a working professional Maya artist. Need to create plasmatic energy by lunch? Animate a field of sprouting daisies before tomorrow's meeting? Fashion a force field by Friday? With Maya's flexible toolset and the unique tutorials in this book, you'll learn how to solve real-world problems, improvise, and finish your professional assignments on time and with flair.
* Animate a zombie hand transformation, UFO glow, and streaking energy with textures
* Make a tentacle shake and slither using expressions and joints
* Use Paint Effects to create twitching nerves and bacterial hair
* Split crystals with Rigid Body Dynamics
* Animate a collapsing rope bridge using Maya Hair
* Master particle instancing and collision effects
* Get a handle on scripting with MEL

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eric Keller has been using Autodesk's Maya to create professional animations since version 1 was released and has been an enthusiast ever since. He is currently a high-end animator for film, television, and scientific visualization. His clients include Disney, ESPN, Hewlett-Packard, CBS, and ABC. Prior to that, he created animations for some of the world's top researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was a contributing author to Mastering Maya 7 and Mastering Maya 8.5 (Sybex).

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Create Dazzling Maya Visual Effects Out of Thin Air
 

If you need to create stunning effects on a tight deadline for finicky clients and demanding art directors, this book is for you. Go from Post-it Notes to positively dazzling with the unique insights and practical advice in this innovative guide from a working professional Maya artist. Need to create plasmatic energy by lunch? Animate a field of sprouting daisies before tomorrow's meeting? Fashion a force field by Friday? With Maya's flexible toolset and the unique tutorials in this book, you'll learn how to solve real-world problems, improvise, and finish your professional assignments on time and with flair.
* Animate a zombie hand transformation, UFO glow, and streaking energy with textures
* Make a tentacle shake and slither using expressions and joints
* Use Paint Effects to create twitching nerves and bacterial hair
* Split crystals with Rigid Body Dynamics
* Animate a collapsing rope bridge using Maya Hair
* Master particle instancing and collision effects
* Get a handle on scripting with MEL

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Verlag
John Wiley & Sons
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
047011133X
ISBN 13 
9780470111338
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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