Mastering Maya 8.5

Take your Maya skills to new levels with the sophisticated coverage you’ll find in this authoritative Autodesk Maya Press reference and tutorial. From key basics through advanced techniques, our Maya experts provide the very latest professional-level instruction on Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited.

Early chapters offer a practical overview of Maya’s interface. A “Quick Start” exercise lets novices create an animation the first day and covers the basics of node structure, keyframes, and basic lighting. Advanced users will broaden their skills with pertinent coverage for nCloth, mental ray integration, volume Fur rendering, advanced texturing tools, and enhanced MEL scripting. Practical tutorials reinforce learning with hands-on practice.

If you’ve been looking for a professional-quality and complete Maya resource to turn to again and again, this is the book.
Render and store stills through the Render View window
Learn techniques with nCloth’s powerful cloth simulation
Tweak and add drag-and-drop Fluid Effects for real-world effects


Table of Contents

Introduction.
Chapter 1: The Maya Interface.
Chapter 2: Quick Start: Creating an Animation in Maya 8.5.
Chapter 3: Polygonal Modeling.
Chapter 4: NURBS Modeling.
Chapter 5: Subdivision Surfaces.
Chapter 6: Blend Shapes: Advanced Modeling.
Chapter 7: Basic Animation.
Chapter 8: Character Setup and Rigging.
Chapter 9: Character Animation.
Chapter 10: Nonlinear Animation.
Chapter 11: Lighting for Animation.
Chapter 12: Shading and Texturing for Animation.
Chapter 13: Rendering Basics.
Chapter 14: Advanced Rendering with mental ray.
Chapter 15: Toon Shading.
Chapter 16: Maya Embedded Language (MEL).
Chapter 17: Paint Effects.
Chapter 18: Rigid Body Animation.
Chapter 19: Using Particles.
Chapter 20: Fluid Effects.
Chapter 21: Maya Hair.
Chapter 22: Maya Fur.
Chapter 23: Cloth Simulation with nCloth.
Index.
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