Customer Reviews

The Game Animator's Guide to Maya

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Very comprehensive and well orgenised book. McKinley explains every aspect of

character animation. Could do a bit more on animation it self.

Interested in game animation for a long time. The book is a good starting point. The book is well written and laid out. Also comes with a educational version of Maya which is a definite plus, which allows anyone to work on 3D animation for games and CGI projects. Definitely recommend for anyone wishing to learn animation for games or otherwise.

As with his former book on Maya, McKinley explains the process in a very clear an easy to follow way. This book is an excellent guide to character animation in Maya. Simply brilliant!

R.L.Borsheim

the game Animators guide to maya is a very indepth look into game animation in maya. It describes every feature in a way that anyone could understand. The writing in this book is almost like he is just talking, Mike uses a very interesting mix of technical and casual terms which make it entertaining and educational!

i suggest this book to anyone who is interested in maya and game animation.

-Andy (Joopson)

ps. ok so i am above 13, im 14. But in order to leave a review you need to buy the book from here, so i just did a kids review.

The book is clearly advertised, both in their description here at Amazon & on the book itself, that it includes Maya PLE. All of the exercises in the book depend on using Maya PLE. There is no Maya PLE on the disk. Just an installer that requires linking to Autodesk's website for the program & the activation key. The link takes you to the chance to download a 30 day trial of Maya 2010. If you contact Wiley, as I did, to try & get the program necessary to the book, the substance of their response will be "sorry about your luck". I used to trust Wiley as a publisher of dependable technical books. Since they've decided to start selling things they can't deliver I won't buy anything from Wiley or recommend their books to my clients in the future.