Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide - Brossura

Keller, Eric

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ISBN 10: 1118441605 ISBN 13: 9781118441602

Casa editrice: Sybex Inc, 2013

Riassunto

<p><b>Create innovative CG solutions with Maya and this creative guide</b></p> <p>Professional Maya artists have to think on their feet. It's nothing for them to receive just vague sketches or incomplete ideas of what the studio wants and have to come up with something brilliant. If you're an intermediate to advanced Maya user, Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide, Second Edition is what you need to meet the challenge. Professional Maya artist Eric Keller offers inspired solutions and hands-on projects, as well as numerous practical shortcuts and deadlines, so you learn to produce innovative CG assets from scratch, using Maya, on a deadline.</p> <ul> <li>Shows intermediate to advanced Maya users new solutions, workarounds, and shortcuts for creating Maya visual effects on deadline</li> <li>Gives readers plenty of hands-on projects, so they come up with solutions that they can add to their Maya toolsets</li> <li>Offers workable ideas that can be applied, no matter which version of Maya software is being used</li> <li>Presents projects in an engaging style, with pages of full-color imagery to illustrate concepts</li> </ul> <p>Create amazing effects with the creative insights and fresh advice in this new edition of <i>Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide</i>.</p>

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Informazioni sull?autore

<p><b>Eric Keller</b> has been a professional visual effects artist since 1998, creating animations for feature films, commercials, motion graphics, and scientific visualizations. He also teaches at the world-renowned Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. Eric has created animations and effects for Disney, Warner Brothers, ESPN, Harvard Medical School, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and CBS. He is the author of Mastering Autodesk Maya 2009 and 2011, the first edition of Maya Visual Effects, and three editions of Introducing ZBrush, all from Sybex.</p>

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<p>Learn smart ways to make inspiration happen</p> <p>When a director tells you to produce that next great visual effect, your job may depend on knowing fast, creative ways to get things done in Autodesk Maya. The new edition of this full-color guide is what you need to get more out of Maya and boost your professional creativity at the same time. As you work through a series of challenging projects, you'll not only discover inspired solutions and helpful shortcuts, you'll also gain valuable studio smarts from professional CG artist and author Eric Keller. The book also features mini lessons in MEL scripting from veteran Maya wizard Max Dayan to help you automate the setup of complex effects rigs. Written for Maya versions 2012, 2013, and 2014, this guide provides expertise to all Maya users wishing to up their game.</p> <ul> <li>Propel a rocket through the air using Maya Fluids</li> <li>Orchestrate a beautiful flowering cherry tree with nParticle collisions</li> <li>Choreograph a dynamic school of fish with a custom-built flocking simulator</li> <li>Use Paint Effects to create bursts of electric energy shooting sci-fi style through a cave</li> <li>Grow a beard of bees on a character's face using nCloth and nParticles</li> <li>Use Maya's nHair to create a swimming jellyfish with stinging tentacles</li> </ul> <p>Rig Medusa's snakey hair to react dynamically to flying bats</p> <p>Use MEL scripting to create an animation rig for a magic stone path</p> <p>Melt a highly detailed gun model using nCloth</p>

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Learn smart ways to make inspiration happen
 
When a director tells you to produce that next great visual effect, your job may depend on knowing fast, creative ways to get things done in Autodesk Maya. The new edition of this full-color guide is what you need to get more out of Maya and boost your professional creativity at the same time. As you work through a series of challenging projects, you'll not only discover inspired solutions and helpful shortcuts, you'll also gain valuable studio smarts from professional CG artist and author Eric Keller. The book also features mini lessons in MEL scripting from veteran Maya wizard Max Dayan to help you automate the setup of complex effects rigs. Written for Maya versions 2012, 2013, and 2014, this guide provides expertise to all Maya users wishing to up their game.
* Propel a rocket through the air using Maya Fluids
* Orchestrate a beautiful flowering cherry tree with nParticle collisions
* Choreograph a dynamic school of fish with a custom-built flocking simulator
* Use Paint Effects to create bursts of electric energy shooting sci-fi style through a cave
* Grow a beard of bees on a character's face using nCloth and nParticles
* Use Maya's nHair to create a swimming jellyfish with stinging tentacles
 
Rig Medusa's snakey hair to react dynamically to flying bats
 
Use MEL scripting to create an animation rig for a magic stone path
 
Melt a highly detailed gun model using nCloth

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Sybex Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1118441605
• ISBN 13: 9781118441602
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 382
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile