New Era II Three Horsepowers

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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: In Maya 2.0 (Unlimited) and 2.5 versions, integrated groundbreaking creative tools, with the three most important being MayaCloth, MayaFur, and MayaLive. These "three horses" bring animators the latest creative tools and workflows. MayaCloth provides solutions for dynamic simulation of materials such as clothes, curtains, and flags, as well as similar flexible objects; MayaFur offers solutions for creating dense linear objects like hair, beards, fur, and grass; while MayaLive incorporates non-linear editing and post-production synthesis into the 3D production process, solving the of aligning 3D virtual objects with video images. This book is divided into three parts based on these three software tools. The first part introduces the basics of MayaCloth, including making tablecloths, shirts, pants, outputting and inputting clothes, creating fabrics, dressing and trying on, animating fabrics, replaying simulation results, adding textures and shadows, and managing fabric scenes. The second part introduces the basics of MayaFur, including creating and modifying fur, animating fur properties, adding actions to fur, adding shadow effects to fur, rendering fur scenes, examples and tips for adding fur to animals, and answers to Fur-related questions. The third part introduces the basics of MayaLive, including setting up photography, basic workflows, tracking, processing, fine-tuning, and corrections. The appendix of this book provides a quick reference table for Maya shortcuts. This book is systematic and rich in content, with descriptions closely tied to examples. It is not only an excellent self-study and teaching material for computer art majors in higher art colleges and related majors in universities but also a valuable reference book for 3D design, animation production, advertising production, and art design personnel, as well as a teaching material for training courses in related fields.