Maya Visual Effects The Innovator’s Guide Autodesk Official Press 2nd Edition by Eric Keller 1118441605 9781118441602

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ISBN 10: 1118441605 

ISBN 13: 9781118441602

Author: Eric Keller

Create innovative CG solutions with Maya and this creative guide Professional Maya artists have to think on their feet. It’s nothing for them to receive just vague sketches or incomplete ideas of what the studio wants and have to come up with something brilliant. If you’re an intermediate to advanced Maya user, Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator’s Guide, Second Edition is what you need to meet the challenge. Professional Maya artist Eric Keller offers inspired solutions and hands-on projects, as well as numerous practical shortcuts and deadlines, so you learn to produce innovative CG assets from scratch, using Maya, on a deadline. Shows intermediate to advanced Maya users new solutions, workarounds, and shortcuts for creating Maya visual effects on deadline Gives readers plenty of hands-on projects, so they come up with solutions that they can add to their Maya toolsets Offers workable ideas that can be applied, no matter which version of Maya software is being used Presents projects in an engaging style, with pages of full-color imagery to illustrate concepts Create amazing effects with the creative insights and fresh advice in this new edition of Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator’s Guide.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Texture Effects
Create Animated Effects with a Ramp Texture
Use Ambient Occlusion for Holographic Effects
Generate Creative Text Effects

Chapter 2: Particle Effects
Orchestrate a Flowering Tree with nParticles
Create a Beard of Bees Using a Force Field
Choreograph a School of Fish by Layering Particles

Chapter 3: Joint Rigging for Effects
Animate a Growing Bacterial Colony Using Joints
Use Joints to Jiggle Geometry
Animate a Magic Curling Brick Road Using Joints

Chapter 4: Creative Blend Shape Techniques
Create an Interactive Blend Shape Rig
Combine Blend Shapes and Other Deformers to Create Swimming Plankton
Automate Blend Shape Sequences Using MEL

Chapter 5: Paint Effects
Create Bursts of Electric Energy
Animate a Blood Vessel Growing on an Eyeball
Use Paint Effects Modifiers to Deform Geometry

Chapter 6: nCloth Techniques
Use nCloth to Melt a Complex Gun Model
Trap 3D Text in a Spider Web with nConstraints
Use nCloth to Animate a Drop of Water

Chapter 7: Fluid Effects
Create Shockwaves for a Futuristic Spaceship
Propel a Rocket Using Fluids
Use a Fluid Mesh to Build a Head

Chapter 8: nHair and Fur Effects
Create an Animated Jellyfish with nHair
Create a Dynamic Rig for Medusa’s Snakes
Animate Crop Circles Using Fur

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