Getting Started in 3D with Maya: Create a Project from Start to Finish--Model, Texture, Rig, Animate, and Render in Maya

ISBN-13: 9781138400726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Adam Watkins

Opis

A guide to 3D animation with Maya. It helps you to create a project from start to finish using all the major components of the 3D process - modeling, UV layout, texture creation, rigging, animation, and rendering - with Maya.

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Animation Workflow

Chapter 2 - Maya Philosophy 

Chapter 3 - Modeling 

Chapter 4 - Organic Modeling 

Chapter 6 - Materials 

Chapter 7 - Lighting and Rendering 

Chapter 8 - Rigging and Skinning

Chapter 9 - Animation

O autorze

Adam Watkins is Associate Professor, 3D Animation, School of Interactive Media & Design at the University of the Incarnate Word. He is currently on a research sabbatical at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where he is part of the VISIBLE effort creating virtual simulation games for use in non-proliferation exercises. Watkins has headed the 3D Animation program for over ten years and is the author of several books and over 100 articles on 3D Animation. His students are the winners of multiple national and international animation awards and festivals.