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Maya at a Glance [Paperback]

George Maestri (Author)
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0782144047 978-0782144048 April 22, 2005
Your Visual Guide to Maya

One look and you'll see this Maya book is different from all the others. It presents core Maya features visually, using pages that are packed with beautiful graphics and loaded with detailed explanations on every crucial feature of Maya's interface. Engaging step-by-step tutorials provide hands-on reinforcement for what you've learned.Maya at a Glance is the perfect introduction and reference to the Academy Award(r) winning Maya 3D animation and effects software.



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Your Visual Guide to Maya

One look and you'll see this Maya book is different from all the others. It presents core Maya features visually, using pages that are packed with beautiful graphics and loaded with detailed explanations on every crucial feature of Maya's interface. Engaging step-by-step tutorials provide hands-on reinforcement for what you've learned.Maya at a Glance is the perfect introduction and reference to the Academy Award® winning Maya 3D animation and effects software.

About the Author

George Maestri is an industry veteran and founder of Rubberbug Studios. His clients have included CBS, Fox, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and he has worked on such shows as South Park, Rocko's Modern Life, and Karen and Kirby. A noted author of five books and numerous articles, his Digital Character Animation book is an industry standard.

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (April 22, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0782144047
  • ISBN-13: 978-0782144048
  • Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #326,860 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great for newbies, April 13, 2005
This review is from: Maya at a Glance (Paperback)
don't know anything about 3D? don't know anything about Maya? like pictures? this book is great! it has hundreds upon hundreds of color illustrations and explains in lamen terms what you are doing. there is more than one picture, and in most cases four or five, for everything explained and for every variation that he talks about.

if you know anything about 3D or Maya then this book may not be for you, but i have spent a lot of money buying books on Maya and 3D modeling and animation and this is the first one that i can actually follow. he explains everything very well and then moves on, but the book is laid out in such a way that if you need to look something up you don't have to read the entire chapter again to understand it! if my dog could read then he could learn how to use Maya with this book. definitely for beginners though... if you want to make the next "Gollum" this book doesn't do that, but if you want to start somewhere this is definitely the place.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for any Animator, February 27, 2006
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I bought this book not knowing what to expect. What I found was a book full of valuable resources and tips to help out any aspiring or current animator. The book was simple to understand coupled with the tutorials at the end of each chapter makes this an essential for anyone interested in computer animation.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good book., May 1, 2007
This review is from: Maya 8 at a Glance +CD (Paperback)
This book helped me a lot, this book gives you a quick general overview of all the major functions of Maya, without going into too much detail. It's not too long and is full of lots of colourful pictures, which makes it easy to read compared to other Maya books which can be huge and daunting in their detail.
I recommend this book to people who have never done any 3d animation who are interested in trying it, as the name suggests it is essentially a beginners book; don't expect to be able to produce a short movie at the end of it. This book merely skims the surface of a giant program, but it'll give you an idea of how to go about creating an animation.
It's good to just start out with this book to give you an idea of what Maya involves, and after finishing you can start with one of the larger Maya books that are out there to explore it deeper and be able to produce your own short animations or models depending on what you want to use Maya for.
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Knowledge of the Maya interface is the foundation of everything you will do in Maya, from creating models to texturing, animating, and final rendering. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
paint effects, component editor, inverse kinematics, shadow rays, creating textures, transformation tools, render region, test render shows, sculpt deformer, attributes panel, depth map shadows, mental ray, software renderer, texture node, ray renderer, animation curves, raytraced shadows, side viewport, blend shapes, polygonal modeling, procedural textures, light linking, pole vector, global illumination, decay regions
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Attribute Editor, Render Globals, Edit Curves, Choose Edit, Motion Blur, Final Gathering, Graph Editor, Choose Polygons, Smooth Bind, Maya Software, General Editors, Focus Region Scale, Angle of View, Connection Editor, Rendering Editors, Create Render Node, Dope Sheet, Focal Length, Time Slider, Show Manipulator, Width Scale, Selected Position, Add Attribute, Light Radius, Cartoon Character
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