How to Cheat in Maya 2010: Tools and Techniques for the Maya Animator (Paperback)

Take your animations to the next level with this essential guide to Maya 2010. Packed with character animation techniques and the secrets of professional animators, How to Cheat in Maya 2010 provides the tips and tools to help you create high quality animation in the most efficient way possible. This comprehensive guide to animating with Maya contains gold-mine coverage, including animation techniques, using Maya's tools with the 12 animation principles, working with constraints, and even foolproof lighting tricks to show off your work.

With this essential handbook, learn which circumstances call for which techniques, and how to get quality results fast. You will not only learn how to be productive in Maya, but also be given access under the hood to the actual scene files of a professional animator. Covering such topics such as pose to pose blocking, layered animation, fixing gimbal lock, facial animation, and much more, How to Cheat in Maya 2010 is an invaluable resource for artists and animators alike.

-- See "under the hood" of a professional animator's workflow with beginning and ending scene files for every technique and workflow example in the book.

--Complete, step-by-step walkthroughs of essential techniques every animator needs to know such as walk cycles, pose-to-pose blocking, lip syncing to dialogue, and much, much more.

-- Proven "How to Cheat" series - Learn to create impressive, appealing animations using the fastest techniques possible, containing everything you need to know about Maya as a character animator.

--Includes rarely discussed topics, such as reading spline curves, avoiding gimbal lock, animation layers, creating appealing lighting for demo reels, and features interviews with some of the most experienced animation leads and TDs working in the industry

-- Learn to apply these professional techniques to your own animations with the accompanying DVD which includes all scene files to follow along with, as well as final versions to study in the Graph Editor

-- See "under the hood" of a professional animator's workflow with beginning and ending scene files for every technique and workflow example in the book.

--Complete, step-by-step walkthroughs of essential techniques every animator needs to know such as walk cycles, pose-to-pose blocking, lip syncing to dialogue, and much, much more.

-- Proven "How to Cheat" series - Learn to create impressive, appealing animations using the fastest techniques possible, containing everything you need to know about Maya as a character animator.

--Includes rarely discussed topics, such as reading spline curves, avoiding gimbal lock, animation layers, creating appealing lighting for demo reels, and features interviews with some of the most experienced animation leads and TDs working in the industry

-- Learn to apply these professional techniques to your own animations with the accompanying DVD which includes all scene files to follow along with, as well as final versions to study in the Graph Editor

以《Maya 2010 Cheat 系列：如何在 Maya 2010 中作弊》為主題，本書提供了將動畫提升到新水平的必備指南。充滿角色動畫技巧和專業動畫師的秘訣，《Maya 2010 Cheat 系列：如何在 Maya 2010 中作弊》提供了幫助您以最高效的方式創建高品質動畫的技巧和工具。這本全面的 Maya 動畫指南包含了豐富的內容，包括動畫技巧、使用 Maya 工具與 12 個動畫原則、使用約束（constraints）以及展示您的作品的防錯燈光技巧。

通過這本必備手冊，您將學習到在哪些情況下應該使用哪些技巧，以及如何快速獲得高品質的結果。您不僅將學習如何在 Maya 中提高生產力，還將獲得專業動畫師的實際場景文件。《Maya 2010 Cheat 系列：如何在 Maya 2010 中作弊》涵蓋了諸多主題，如姿勢到姿勢的阻塞（pose-to-pose blocking）、分層動畫、修復萬向鎖（gimbal lock）、面部動畫等等，對藝術家和動畫師來說是一個寶貴的資源。

本書還包括一些很少討論的主題，如讀取樣條曲線、避免萬向鎖、動畫層、為演示卷軸創建吸引人的燈光，並與業內一些經驗豐富的動畫主管和 TD 進行了訪談。您可以通過附帶的 DVD 學習將這些專業技巧應用於自己的動畫中，其中包括所有場景文件供您跟隨，以及在 Graph Editor 中學習最終版本。

此外，本書還提供了每個技巧和工作流範例的開始和結束場景文件，讓您深入了解專業動畫師的工作流程。本書還提供了完整的、逐步的技巧演示，涵蓋了每個動畫師都需要了解的基本技巧，如行走循環、姿勢到姿勢的阻塞、對話的嘴型同步等等。《Maya 2010 Cheat 系列：如何在 Maya 2010 中作弊》是一個經過驗證的系列，教您使用最快的技巧創建令人印象深刻、吸引人的動畫，包含了您作為角色動畫師所需了解的一切關於 Maya 的知識。