Maya� Visual Effects: The Innovator′s Guide - Softcover

Keller, Eric

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9780470111338: Maya� Visual Effects: The Innovator′s Guide

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ISBN 10: 047011133X ISBN 13: 9780470111338

Publisher: Sybex, 2007

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Create positively dazzling effects with the unique insights and practical advice in this innovative guide from a working professional Maya artist. Need to create plasmatic energy by lunch? Animate a field of sprouting daisies before tomorrow s meeting? Fashion a force field by Friday? With Maya s flexible toolset and the unique tutorials in this book, you ll learn how to solve real–world problems, improvise, and finish your professional assignments on time and with flair.

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Create Dazzling Maya Visual Effects Out of Thin Air

If you need to create stunning effects on a tight deadline for finicky clients and demanding art directors, this book is for you. Go from Post–it Notes to positively dazzling with the unique insights and practical advice in this innovative guide from a working professional Maya artist. Need to create plasmatic energy by lunch? Animate a field of sprouting daisies before tomorrow s meeting? Fashion a force field by Friday? With Maya s flexible toolset and the unique tutorials in this book, you ll learn how to solve real–world problems, improvise, and finish your professional assignments on time and with flair.

Animate a zombie hand transformation, UFO glow, and streaking energy with textures
Make a tentacle shake and slither using expressions and joints
Use Paint Effects to create twitching nerves and bacterial hair
Split crystals with Rigid Body Dynamics
Animate a collapsing rope bridge using Maya Hair
Master particle instancing and collision effects
Get a handle on scripting with MEL

About the Author:

Eric Keller has been using Autodesk′s Maya to create professional animations since version 1 was released and has been an enthusiast ever since. He is currently a high–end animator for film, television, and scientific visualization. His clients include Disney, ESPN, Hewlett–Packard, CBS, and ABC. Prior to that, he created animations for some of the world′s top researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was a contributing author to Mastering Maya 7 and Mastering Maya 8.5 (Sybex).

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