MAYA 5 Platinum Tutorial (Includes 3 CDs)

Author: Li You
Publisher: Science Press
Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This set of teaching materials is a massive example-based course for Maya 5, providing comprehensive and systematic learning on the basics, advanced modeling, and character animation of Maya 5. It utilizes 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 movement, 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 more than 20 examples in total, covering all aspects of actual professional production work. The accompanying teaching CD provides a large-capacity teaching video that complements the written, including teaching videos for over 100 modeling and animation commands, a teaching video for creating a human head, a teaching video for making a motorcycle, and teaching videos for all animation examples in the book, totaling tens of hours.