Mastering Autodesk Maya 2015: Autodesk Official Press (Paperback)

Mastering Autodesk Maya is the ultimate guide to the popular 3D animation software. Author Todd Palamar draws on his extensive professional animation experience to help readers take their Maya skills to the next level. Written for those who already know the basics of this enormous program, the book covers advanced topics and professional techniques for modeling, animation, texturing, and visual effects.

Fully updated to reflect Maya's latest features, the book takes a hands-on approach to instruction, providing readers with a diverse set of tutorials designed by real-world professionals to showcase 3D animation and visual techniques used in industry settings. Complete and comprehensive, the book makes an excellent desk reference for the working animator, and is an ideal resource for those seeking Maya certification. The unique combination of challenging material and practical instruction make this one-of-a-kind guide the ultimate Maya handbook. Topics include:

• Animation using inverse kinematics, keyframes, and deformers
• Hard surface and organic modeling
• Proper rigging techniques, and working with Maya Muscle
• Xgen, Paint Effects, and rendering with mental ray
• Texture mapping, compositing, nParticles, and more
• Virtual filmmaking and scene management

The most complex skills are useless if they can't be applied, so the book emphasizes the practical, day-to-day uses of each skill, and discusses which solutions best fit which scenario. For the computer animation professional seeking a more in-depth mastery of this popular animation program, Mastering Autodesk Maya is an excellent investment in the future of your career.

擴展您的技能，完全掌握Maya

《Mastering Autodesk Maya》是對流行的3D動畫軟體的終極指南。作者Todd Palamar憑藉其豐富的專業動畫經驗，幫助讀者將Maya技能提升到更高的水平。本書針對那些已經熟悉這個龐大程式的基礎知識的人，涵蓋了建模、動畫、紋理和視覺效果的高級主題和專業技巧。

本書已全面更新以反映Maya的最新功能，採用實踐教學方法，提供讀者一系列由實際專業人士設計的教程，展示工業環境中使用的3D動畫和視覺技術。本書完整而全面，是工作中動畫師的優秀參考書，也是尋求Maya認證的理想資源。挑戰性的內容和實用的指導結合在一起，使這本獨一無二的指南成為終極的Maya手冊。主題包括：

- 使用逆向運動學、關鍵幀和變形器進行動畫
- 硬面和有機建模
- 正確的骨骼綁定技術，以及與Maya Muscle的合作
- Xgen、Paint Effects和使用mental ray進行渲染
- 紋理映射、合成、nParticles等
- 虛擬電影製作和場景管理

如果最複雜的技能無法應用，那麼它們就毫無用處，因此本書強調每個技能的實際日常應用，並討論哪些解決方案最適合哪種情境。對於尋求更深入掌握這個流行動畫程式的電腦動畫專業人士，《Mastering Autodesk Maya》是對您職業未來的一項優秀投資。