Conquer Maya 4 Quick 60 Lectures

Author: Liu Youquan
Publisher: Tsinghua University Press
Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: This book is designed for learning with Chinese and English menu comparisons. Maya Chinese localization menu plugin, making it more convenient to learn with Chinese menus. The book focuses on the menu functions and drawing tools of Maya 4.01 as the main content, introducing the workflow of Maya in handling graphics in a step-by-step manner. The book consists of 8 chapters, mainly including an introduction to Maya's interface, project management, customization of the working environment, object editing, transforming objects, object display control, NURBS modeling, polygon modeling, subdivision surface modeling, materials and textures, lighting, rendering, animation, and more. The last chapter also introduces how to use MayaFusion to composite sequence image files output from layered Maya rendering.