Maya 5 Platinum Tutorial

Author: Li You
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: This set of teaching materials is a massive example-based course for Maya 5, offering comprehensive and systematic learning on the basics of Maya 5, advanced modeling, and character animation. It employs numerous advanced examples for teaching, including the entire process of creating high-difficulty models such as human characters, mobile phones, cars, and motorcycles, as well as various animation techniques, such as mechanical transmission, linear soft bodies, path motion, bone binding and skinning, dual-bone character skeleton setup, character walking animation, non-linear animation editing, dinosaur bone setup, horse quadruped bone setup and skinning, and character facial animation. There are over 20 examples in total, covering all aspects of professional production work. The accompanying teaching CD provides high-capacity video tutorials that complement the written materials, including over 100 video tutorials on modeling and animation commands, a tutorial on creating a human head, and a tutorial on making a motorcycle, as well as video tutorials for all animation examples in the book, totaling dozens of hours.