MAYA ANIMATION Animation Volume. Setting (Including 1CD)

Author: Chen Ming
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: "MAYAANIMATION - Animation Volume · Character Design" is a required course for animation majors. The author is a teacher at Shenzhen Global Digital Media Training Center (IDMT), one of Asia's largest CG production bases, with years of experience in frontline teaching and production. With rich teaching and animation production expertise, the book uses clear and concise language, combined with illustrations, to take the production process of IDMT's first large-scale fully CG film, "Thrust through the Moebius Strip," as its core. Using the character design and character animation from the film as a blueprint, it explains the preparatory work for character animation—basic principles, methods, and techniques of character design.
Book Content: The book is divided into two parts, with a total of 9 chapters. The first part, "Character Design Basics," introduces fundamental knowledge of character design through the analysis of character models and character animation in the film, covering basic principles of character design, bone creation, forward kinematics and inverse kinematics, and the application of constraint tools in character design. The second part, "Advanced Character Design," covers skinning and binding, the use of common deformation tools, character and flying creature design, animation techniques and principles, and the creation of walking animations for characters and quadrupeds.
Book Features:
1. For the first time, it reveals the technical secrets of character design and animation production in domestic CG production companies, with strong professionalism, inspiration, and guidance.
2. The book is systematically structured to meet the teaching tasks of 3D animation training courses, using production experiences and model source files from the film as living teaching cases, greatly stimulating readers' interest in learning, making the process easier and more approachable.
3. Illustrated and step-by-step, with a focus on key points, the accompanying CD contains rich and practical content, significantly improving learning efficiency and achieving results with less effort.
CD Content: Source files and final animation files used in teaching, an introduction to the IDMT Training Department, IDMT's Siggraph 2003 exhibition, and（Ragged Ann）.
Target Audience: University-level computer animation textbooks, teaching materials for social 3D animation training classes, and an excellent self-study reference for CG enthusiasts.