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Learning Maya 4.0

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Learning Maya 4 takes you through over twenty project-focused lessons that offer hands-on experience with Maya’s key tools and techniques. The tutorials and workflows in the book have been optimized for version 4.0 and provide step-by-step instructions for utilizing the powerful tools that are available in Maya. This full color book gives you hands-on experience and includes five project-based lessons that demonstrate how to model, animate, texture map, add visual effects, and render. This book introduces you to the following * The Maya user interface
* Working in 3D space
* NURBS (Spline) Modeling
* Polygonal Modeling
* Keyframes and Motion Paths
* Trax Non-linear animation
* Forward and Inverse Kinematics
* Surface Deformations
* Camera and lights
* Shaders and Textures
* Rendering Techniques
* Particles and Dynamics
* MEL (Maya Embedded Language) Learning Maya 4 includes a helpful CD-ROM of support files, tutorial movies and how-to lessons. The CD-ROM includes lesson files compatible with Maya Complete 4.0 and Maya Unlimited 4.0. This is the perfect companion book to The Art of Maya, also published by Alias|Wavefront.

554 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2001

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