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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.696
EAN num: 9780240519524
ISBN number: 0240519523
Label: Focal Press
Manufacturer: Focal Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: May 12, 2004
Publishing house: Focal Press
Sale Popularity Level: 2019506
Studio: Focal Press
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Product Description:
Companion website provides new updates and tutorials for version 6!
If you are an artist who's new to Alias's Maya, or are moving over to use this powerful, oscar-winning animation and effects software from another 3D package, you will find this book invaluable. It provides you with all you need to know to get up and running with this difficult software, fast!
Focusing only on the key things you need to know when starting out it doesn't overload you, so speeds up your learning process.
Highly illustrated in colour throughout this book benefits from a clear, concise, jargon free style. Written by a LucasArts professional it will provide invaluable knowledge that will help you get that elusive very first job in animation!
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Excellent technical artist. This book had me working through the basics very quickly and took me through most things I needed. Wish he had books covering some of the other software systems I use.
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I found this book extremely helpful in learning how to model, texture, animate, and even add effects. The step-by-step instructions make the exercises easy to follow, and the list of common hotkeys proved indispensable -- making it easy to navigate around Maya quickly. Jason Patnode also explains texturing and creating bones very clearly, two things I've found difficult in the past. My skills have vastly improved, and I am confident now I can create all kinds of scenes and objects in Maya.
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I'm a beginner, in the very first tutorial "modeling binoculars" so many of the steps are not explained - Turn on Snap to Points mode - no instructions on howto. The author lost me after step 15..
And then the rest of the chapter is a loss. I wouldn't get the book if I was just starting out learning Maya..
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This Focal Easy Guide to Maya 5 is amazing! I have used Maya extensively for nearly 4 years in the motion picture business and this book even showed me things that I didn't know. Jason Patnode's style is easy to read but not patronizing and I think that if I had this book when I very first stumbled into the world of professional CG, I'd be light years ahead of where I am now!
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