Learning Maya 6 Modeling FROM THE PUBLISHER
Learning Maya 6 | Modeling is your key to creating effective and efficient models in Maya. Building smart models means you'll save time and frustration at each stage of your pipeline. Learn to create realistic models for both organic and non-organic surface types and avoid mistakes at the modeling stage. Get the theory you need to understand what's happening in Maya and then work your way through helpful step-by-step exercises as you create characters and their environments. Learning Maya 6 | Modeling will allow you too make the right decisions throughout the modeling process to get the results you need quickly and efficiently.
Each chapter includes a theoretical discussion to help you understand the concepts at play, as well as easy to follow step-by-step tutorials so that you can start working right away. The book also includes as accompanying on a human head. This book will teach you:
Polygon Modeling
Working with Image Planes; Building a Human Figure; Building a Human Head
NURBS Modeling
Parameterization; Figure Modeling; Industrial Modeling
Subdivision Surface Modeling
Hierarchical Modeling; Building a Shark
General Modeling Issues
Tessellation; Texturing
SYNOPSIS
This official book, produced by Alias, is your key to creating effective and efficient models in Maya 6. Get hands-on experience working with surface types such as polygons, NURBS and Subdivision Surfaces to build both animate and inanimate objects. Each chapter includes a theoretical discussion of the concepts, combined with tested tutorials that make complex topics easy to follow. Gain additional insights from the valuable chapter-by-chapter QuickTime overviews provided by an Alias Certified Instructor. The companion DVD also includes Maya Beginners Guide | Modeling ($34.99 value) to help you get started right away.
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