Defeat Maya4 Fast Easy 60 Lectures

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