Introduction

Alias’ Maya 5.0 is an incredibly powerful and deep program. A person could work for months in the program and then one day accidentally stumble upon a feature that they had no idea was there. Often people working in Maya become so focused on one particular area that, if asked to work with a toolset different to those they are familiar with, they wouldn’t be able to make head or tail of it. That is where this book comes in.

The purpose of this book is to show, by example, the many different work areas available in Maya 5.0; after following the examples, you will be able to navigate comfortably through these. The examples are designed to be open-ended; this means that the workflow from the tutorials can be applied to more complex scenes. ...

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