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.
Om författaren
Eric Keller has been a professional visual effects artist since 1998, creating animations for feature films, commercials, motion graphics, and scientific visualizations. He also teaches at the world-renowned Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. Eric has created animations and effects for Disney, Warner Brothers, ESPN, Harvard Medical School, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and CBS. He is the author of Mastering Autodesk Maya 2009 and 2011, the first edition of Maya Visual Effects, and three editions of Introducing ZBrush, all from Sybex.