Autodesk Maya 2014

Name: Autodesk Maya 2014
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ISBN: 9781118575079

ISBN-10: 1118575075

ISBN-13: 9781118575079

Edition: 2013

Authors: Paul Naas

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The premiere book on getting started with Maya 2014 Whether you're just beginning, or migrating from another 3D application, this step-by-step guide is what you need to get a good working knowledge of Autodesk Maya 2014. Beautifully illustrated with full-color examples and screenshots, Autodesk Maya 2014 Essentials explains the basics of Maya as well as modeling, texturing, animating, setting a scene, and creating visual effects. You'll absorb important concepts and techniques, and learn how to confidently use Maya tools the way professionals do. Each chapter includes fun and challenging hands-on projects, which you can do as you go using the downloadable files from the book's website. They…

Book details

List price: $71.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.45" wide x 9.20" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction



Understanding the Maya Interface


Exploring Interface Elements


Views


Time Slider


Range Slider


Toolbox Window


Shelves


Moving Views and Manipulating Objects


Using Maya Windows and Menus


Setting Preferences


Preferences Window


Settings Used for the Tutorials


Getting Help



Creating Your First Animation


Using Good Scene-File Management


Creating and Animating a Bouncing Ball


Selecting a View and Turning On the Resolution Gate


Creating a Ball


Setting Movement Keyframes


Refining Movement in the Graph Editor


What's Wrong with the Way My Ball Is Bouncing?


Adjusting Spline Tangents


Breaking Tangents for Fast Direction Changes


Using Animation Principles to Improve Your Work


Squash


Stretch


Creating a Playblast of Your Animation



Modeling with Polygons, Part 1


Understanding Polygons


Vertex


Edges


Constructing a Good Model


The Importance of Quads


The Problem With Ngons


Getting Started and Using the Main Modeling Tools


Setting Up View Planes


Starting with a Cube


Extruding Faces


Box Modeling and Building a Character


Refining the Character's Geometry


Using the Insert Edge Loop Tool


Using the Split Polygon Tool


Shaping Your Character



Modeling with Polygons, Part 2


Creating Edge Loops


Getting Started: Deleting Edges and Setting Tool Options


Building Your Edge Loops


Adjusting Vertices, Polygons, and Edges, and Adding Details


Creating Eyebrows



Modeling with Polygons, Part 3


Refining and Cleaning Up


Adding Geometry for Good Deformations


Cleaning Up the Model


Positioning Your Character for Rigging


Adding Eyeballs


Mirroring Your Model


Deleting History



Surfacing Your Character


Creating a Surface


Using the Hypershade Window


Using the Marking Menu


Laying Out UVs


Understanding the UV Space


Performing the UV Layout


Texture Mapping


Creating a Color Map


Applying Your Color Map


Applying Additional Surfaces



Getting Bent Out of Shape: Blend Shapes


Understanding Blend Shapes and How They Work


Deformer Order


Blend Shapes


Creating Deformers for Your Character


Planning for Facial Deformers


Creating Your Facial Blend Shapes


Setting Up the Blend Shape Interface



Dem Bones: Setting Up Your Joint System


Understanding How Joints Work


Building Joint Chains


Picking the Correct View for a Chain


Starting in the Middle (of the Character)


Naming Joints


Creating the Leg Chain


Creating the Arm Chain


Putting It All Together


Mirroring Joint Chains


Using Variables for Naming


Connecting All Your Chains


Putting It to Use: Connecting the Joints to Your Model


Using Smooth Bind


Skinning Joints to Your Model


Parenting the Eyes to the Skeleton



Weighting Your Joints


Understanding Joint Weighting and Why It's Important


Joint Influence on Deformation


Why You Used the Options You Did at the End of the Last Chapter


Adjusting Weights


Strategies for Assigning Weights


Paint Skin Weights Tool-Add


Paint Skin Weights Tool-Replace


Painting Your Weights


Mirroring Weights



Rigging Your Character


Understanding Basic Rigging Concepts


Forward Kinematics


Inverse Kinematics


Setting Up the Leg Controls


Creating Leg IK Chains


Creating an External Control Handle


Connecting the IK Chains to the Handle


Using Pole Vector Constraints for Controlling the Knee


Setting Up the Torso Control


Creating the Torso Control Handle


Connecting the Torso Control


Setting Up the Character Control


Creating the Character Control Handle


Connecting the Character Control Handle


Creating a Custom Shelf



Setting the Scene: Creating an Environment


Building a Room


Creating the Floor and Walls


Texturing the Floor and Walls


Building Props


Creating a Table


Creating a Poster



Making It Move: Animating Your Character


Setting Up Maya for Animation


Setting Key Tangents


Creating a Camera and Turning On the Resolution Gate


Locking Down the Camera


Animating Your Character


Creating a Pop-Thru


Timing the Pop-Thru


Adding Breakdown Poses


Polishing the Animation



Let There Be Light: Lighting Your Shot


Understanding the Three-Point Lighting System


Key Light


Fill Light


Rim Light


Using the Maya Lights


Directional Light


Spot Light


Point Light


Lighting Your Scene


Placing Your Lights


Setting the Intensity of Your Lights


Casting Shadows


Performing Light Linking



Rendering and Compositing Your Scene


Making 2D Images Out of 3D Scenes


Smoothing Your Model


Setting Your Render Preferences


Running a Batch Render


Finding Your Frames


Performing Compositing


Compositing Your Frames


Using Other Compositing Options



Autodeskï¿½ Mayaï¿½ 2014 Certification


Index