This exceptional, full-color Maya Press title -- produced by Alias, the software's creators -- offers a brand-new approach to teaching modeling and animation using the characters from the Academy Award-winning short film The ChubbChubbs. You'll find instructor-led tutorials, scene files, artist interviews, and Maya Personal Learning Edition on the enclosed DVD.
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Alias' Maya is the premier software for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering. This exceptional, full-color Maya Press title – produced by Alias, the software's creators – is a brand-new approach to teaching modeling and animation with the characters from the Academy Award-winning short film The ChubbChubbs.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book for the beginner/intermediate user!!,
This review is from: Learning Maya 7: The Modeling and Animation Handbook (Paperback)
These books are a spectacular edition. Alias has been good about teaching in their books, but these books actually have FUN projects! I have enough books that will tell me how to do something (and these are VERY easy to understand) but the only ones that I can actually have fun working with are the ones contained in this new series. Not for the advanced user though. If you want advanced, go for the Maya Tecniques series, not the Learning Maya series. Great books!
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worst....guidebook.....ever.......,
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This review is from: Learning Maya 7: The Modeling and Animation Handbook (Paperback)
horrible. as some have said, names are misused, images are confusing,
greatly lacking in explanation. i've been banging my head against this thing for two and a half weeks and i give up. clunky workflow examples and frankly outdated pipeline. anyone interested in a book like this would do themselves a favor by checking out Gnomon Studios or Digital Tutors. they present more sophisticated and intuitive workflows. save your money and use the manual that came with your software as reference with the video guides available from the above mentioned companies. it'll save you from the inevitable ulcers Learning Maya 7 will cause. p.s. been using EIAS since '95. Not new to this game. hope the review helps.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Fairly Useful but dense,
This review is from: Learning Maya 7: The Modeling and Animation Handbook (Paperback)
This book is quite dense, for absolute beginners it may be overwhelming. If it weren't a required text for one of my classes I'm not sure if I would've chosen it. To be honest, we are doing different projects than are in the book, so this is more as a reference tool than anything. You'll want to at least be familiar with the menus and some functions before delving into this book. However if you've used Maya or Max before and want to learn more and polish your modeling techniques, this is a good one to start with.
Some pictures are used to show examples (end results) but screenshots of the progress and exactly what menus are being accessed and where they're located would've been very helpful rather than listing out the instructions and showing end results. However it does provide a lot of information and who better to learn from than the source, Alias.
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custom tool shelf, inner eye curve, blend shape deformer, existing scene file, open the scene file, blend shape node, final scene file, sine deformer, texture reference objects, floating vertices, jiggle deformer, necklace curve, sculpt deformer, local rotation axes, deformer set, rig node, local rotation axis, copy skin weights, reverse foot setup, stool object, wrap deformer, blend shape targets, animation curves, wire deformer, polygonal tools Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Channel Box, Edit Polygons, Graph Editor, Attribute Editor, Global Stitch, Select Window, Polygon Proxy Mode, Paint Skin Weights Tool, Standard Mode, Edit Smooth Skin, Move Tool, Character Controls, Joint Tool, Texture Editor, Heel Rot, Rebuild Surfaces, Subdiv Surfaces, Connection Editor, Bind Skin, Set Driven Key, Asset Browser, Move Normal Tool, Story Tool, Ball Rot, Curve Tool New!
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custom tool shelf, inner eye curve, blend shape deformer, existing scene file, open the scene file, blend shape node, final scene file, sine deformer, texture reference objects, floating vertices, jiggle deformer, necklace curve, sculpt deformer, local rotation axes, deformer set, rig node, local rotation axis, copy skin weights, reverse foot setup, stool object, wrap deformer, blend shape targets, animation curves, wire deformer, polygonal tools Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Channel Box, Edit Polygons, Graph Editor, Attribute Editor, Global Stitch, Select Window, Polygon Proxy Mode, Paint Skin Weights Tool, Standard Mode, Edit Smooth Skin, Move Tool, Character Controls, Joint Tool, Texture Editor, Heel Rot, Rebuild Surfaces, Subdiv Surfaces, Connection Editor, Bind Skin, Set Driven Key, Asset Browser, Move Normal Tool, Story Tool, Ball Rot, Curve Tool New!
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