Maya 5.0 Beginner to Advanced

Author: Dongfang Renhua
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Maya is the world's top 3D animation software today, widely used in film and television advertising, character animation, film special effects, and other fields. With its comprehensive functions, flexible operation, and ease of learning and use, mastering Maya can significantly improve production efficiency and quality, enabling you to create three-dimensional artworks beyond your expectations. This book uses the latest version of Maya 5.0 as the creative platform and integrates Maya and MayaFusion into one. The main content includes Maya's basic knowledge, new features, NURBS modeling, polygon modeling, and other modeling methods, animation, dynamics, lighting, materials, and rendering settings, MayaMel scripting language, and multiple application examples. Additionally, it specially introduces some external plugins for Maya, which are powerful tools that allow creators to quickly create characters. This book is primarily aimed at beginners and intermediate users, but advanced users can also learn new features and methods from it. It can serve as a self-study manual for three-dimensional animation design professionals and graphic image enthusiasts, as well as an animation textbook for university students and teachers in related fields, and for trainees in social training classes.