Book description
The Maya guide for animators, How to Cheat in Maya 2012 presents everything you need to know about character animation in Maya. Fully updated for the latest revision of Maya, this book provides you with complete, step-by-step walkthroughs of essential animation techniques to increase your efficiency and speed. This is an animator's workflow in book form, written by professional animators-not a software book with a few animation pointers thrown in.
In addition to all the gold-mine coverage and interviews with expert animators from the previous edition, How to Cheat in Maya 2012 also features a new in-depth chapter on the principles of animation, updated information on camera settings and animation using Maya's new Camera Sequencer tool, the ins and outs of the brand new Editable Motion Trails tool, new techniques for working with characters in multi-shot animation tests and short films, a new cycles chapter covering actions like flying and walks, time-saving scripts, and advanced tricks with the new Graph Editor. The proven "How to Cheat" series gets you up to speed quickly, and in a way that's fun.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- How to Cheat and Why
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use This Book
- 1. Animation Principles
- 2. Splines
- 3. Graph Editor
- 4. Techniques
- 5. Constraints
- 6. Gimbal Lock
- 7. Cameras & Layout
- 8. Blocking
- 9. Cycles
- 10. Polishing
- 11. Facial Animation
- 12. Animation Layers
- Animator Interviews
- Index
Product information
- Title: How to Cheat in Maya 2012
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136127496
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