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Designed for busy Maya users like you, this guide offers dozens of how-tos, workarounds, and shortcuts culled from years of experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven production pipeline. You’ll discover tricks and timesavers on texturing particles, customizing Paint Effects brushes, modeling polygon faces, creating facial rigs with wire deformers, and much more—and helpful full-color illustrations reinforce the concepts. From modeling, animating, and rigging to texturing and lighting, this book will help you streamline workflow and improve your skills.
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Get More Out of Maya in Less Time
Work better and faster in Maya with the quick-hit tips and techniques in this practical book. Designed for busy Maya users, this guide offers dozens of how-tos, workarounds, and shortcuts culled from years of experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven production pipeline. You'll discover tricks and timesavers on texturing particles, customizing Paint Effects brushes, modeling polygon faces, creating facial rigs with wire deformers, and much more—while useful, full-color illustrations reinforce the concepts. From modeling, animating, and rigging to texturing and lighting, this book will help you streamline workflow and improve your skills.
- Create simple to complex MEL windows
- Master NURBS modeling tricks
- Clean up imported polygons
- Animate realistic camera moves
- Build easy leg and spine controllers
- Combine simple textures for complex results
- Apply naturalistic and HDR lighting techniques
- Import ZBrush displacement and normal maps
- Prep your animation for video or 35mm film
The enclosed CD contains bonus content including valuable Maya demo software, scene files, and texture bitmaps to match many techniques in the book.
Build a polygon head by extruding edges.
Import normal maps from ZBrush to obtain more accurate render detail over bump maps.
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new file node, groupl node, mel window, prefs folder, scene folder, local rotation axis, material override, hdr image, file browse button, mental ray tab, duplicate sphere, workspace view, edge isoparm, wire deformers, master layer, shelf icon, mental ray renderer, batch render, shading network, search envelope, duplicated curve, depth map shadows, transform handle, bind pose, mel script Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Attribute Editor, Paint Effects, Script Editor, Render Layer Editor, Graph Editor, Render View, Industry Tip, Component Editor, Maya Software, Color Gain, Hypergraph Scene Hierarchy, Color Offset, Background Color, Channel Box, Image Name, Photomatix Pro, Transfer Maps, Use Background, Expression Editor, Render Pass Options, Smooth Bind, Filter Size, Make Motor Boats, Per Particle, Texture Type New!
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new file node, groupl node, mel window, prefs folder, scene folder, local rotation axis, material override, hdr image, file browse button, mental ray tab, duplicate sphere, workspace view, edge isoparm, wire deformers, master layer, shelf icon, mental ray renderer, batch render, shading network, search envelope, duplicated curve, depth map shadows, transform handle, bind pose, mel script Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Attribute Editor, Paint Effects, Script Editor, Render Layer Editor, Graph Editor, Render View, Industry Tip, Component Editor, Maya Software, Color Gain, Hypergraph Scene Hierarchy, Color Offset, Background Color, Channel Box, Image Name, Photomatix Pro, Transfer Maps, Use Background, Expression Editor, Render Pass Options, Smooth Bind, Filter Size, Make Motor Boats, Per Particle, Texture Type New!
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