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Maya Visual Effects The Innovator's Guide: Autodesk Official Press, 2nd Edition

Author Eric Keller
Release Date: 2013/05/01
ISBN: 9781118654880
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Book Description

Create innovative CG solutions with Maya and this creative guide

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.

  • Shows intermediate to advanced Maya users new solutions, workarounds, and shortcuts for creating Maya visual effects on deadline

  • Gives readers plenty of hands-on projects, so they come up with solutions that they can add to their Maya toolsets

  • Offers workable ideas that can be applied, no matter which version of Maya software is being used

  • Presents projects in an engaging style, with pages of full-color imagery to illustrate concepts

Create amazing effects with the creative insights and fresh advice in this new edition of Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. About the Author
  4. About the Contributor
  5. Introduction
    1. Who Should Buy This Book
    2. What’s Inside
    3. How to Contact the Author
  6. Chapter 1: Texture Effects
    1. Create Animated Effects with a Ramp Texture
    2. Use Ambient Occlusion for Holographic Effects
    3. Generate Creative Text Effects
  7. Chapter 2: Particle Effects
    1. Orchestrate a Flowering Tree with nParticles
    2. Create a Beard of Bees Using a Force Field
    3. Choreograph a School of Fish by Layering Particles
  8. Chapter 3: Joint Rigging for Effects
    1. Animate a Growing Bacterial Colony Using Joints
    2. Use Joints to Jiggle Geometry
    3. Animate a Magic Curling Brick Road Using Joints
  9. Chapter 4: Creative Blend Shape Techniques
    1. Create an Interactive Blend Shape Rig
    2. Combine Blend Shapes and Other Deformers to Create Swimming Plankton
    3. Automate Blend Shape Sequences Using MEL
  10. Chapter 5: Paint Effects
    1. Create Bursts of Electric Energy
    2. Animate a Blood Vessel Growing on an Eyeball
    3. Use Paint Effects Modifiers to Deform Geometry
  11. Chapter 6: nCloth Techniques
    1. Use nCloth to Melt a Complex Gun Model
    2. Trap 3D Text in a Spider Web with nConstraints
    3. Use nCloth to Animate a Drop of Water
  12. Chapter 7: Fluid Effects
    1. Create Shockwaves for a Futuristic Spaceship
    2. Propel a Rocket Using Fluids
    3. Use a Fluid Mesh to Build a Head
  13. Chapter 8: nHair and Fur Effects
    1. Create an Animated Jellyfish with nHair
    2. Create a Dynamic Rig for Medusa’s Snakes
    3. Animate Crop Circles Using Fur
  14. Index
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