Maya: Secrets of the Pros - Brossura

Kundert-Gibbs, John L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0782140556 ISBN 13: 9780782140552

Casa editrice: Sybex Inc, 2002

Riassunto

Presenting helpful advice and real-world tips, techniques, and tricks from professional Maya animators, this illustrated guide covers such topics as modeling, motion capture, lip synching, crowd scenes, surfacing, rendering, and a wide variety of other special visual effects. Original. (Intermediate)

Su questo libro

L'autore:

John Kundert-Gibbs is director of the Master of Fine Arts in Computing program at Clemson University. Author of a number of publications on Maya, computer graphics, and dramatic literature, he directs students in producing animated shorts, creates effects for live action projects, and designs electronic media for theatrical productions. The book's contributing authors have a wide variety of experience producing animated shorts and features.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

In this unique full-color book, a cadre of professionals led by Maya expert and best-selling author, John Kundert-Gibbs, team up to share what they’ve learned using Maya in the CG trenches.

Contributing authors include veterans of such high-profiles projects as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Star Wars: Episode I, The Perfect Storm, as well as animations featured at SIGGRAPH.

Whether you’re new to the field or already have solid 3D experience, Maya: Secrets of the Pros offers insights and step-by-step instructions designed to help you build and sharpen a range of critical skills, including:

• Preparation techniques for modeling and animation
• Improving motion capture and lip synching
• Creating crowd scenes from a small number of base models
• Controlling dynamics in plot-driven sequences
• Developing massively complex particle systems for film effects, such as those in The Perfect Storm
• Modeling subdivision surfaces
• Creating a GUI animation set-up for animators
• Using effective natural lighting
• Writing software for a multi-platform renderfarm

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sybex Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0782140556
• ISBN 13: 9780782140552
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400