Maya Professional Tips and Techniques (Paperback)

Lee Lanier

  • 出版商: Sybex
  • 出版日期: 2007-03-06
  • 定價: $1,200
  • 售價: 2.5$299
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 221
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0470107405
  • ISBN-13: 9780470107409
  • 相關分類: 3D建模 3D-modeling
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Get More Out of Maya in Less Time

Work better and faster in Maya with the quick-hit tips and techniques in this practical book. Designed for busy Maya users, this guide offers dozens of how-tos, workarounds, and shortcuts culled from years of experience in a fast-paced, deadline-driven production pipeline. You'll discover tricks and timesavers on texturing particles, customizing Paint Effects brushes, modeling polygon faces, creating facial rigs with wire deformers, and much more-while useful, full-color illustrations reinforce the concepts. From modeling, animating, and rigging to texturing and lighting, this book will help you streamline workflow and improve your skills.
* Create simple to complex MEL windows
* Master NURBS modeling tricks
* Clean up imported polygons
* Animate realistic camera moves
* Build easy leg and spine controllers
* Combine simple textures for complex results
* Apply naturalistic and HDR lighting techniques
* Import ZBrush displacement and normal maps
* Prep your animation for video or 35mm film

The enclosed CD contains bonus content including valuable Maya demo software, scene files, and texture bitmaps to match many techniques in the book.

Build a polygon head by extruding edges.

Import normal maps from ZBrush to obtain more accurate render detail over bump maps.
 
 
Table of Contents
Introduction.

Chapter 1 Customization and MEL Scripting.

Resetting to Factory/Swapping Prefs Files.

Creating Custom Shelf Icons.

Building a Simple MEL Window.

Building an Intermediate MEL Window.7

Retrieving Values from Fields.

Creating an Autosave MEL Script.9

Timing with timerX and Killing with scriptJob.

Creating Your Own Paint Effects Brushes.

Customizing a Tube Brush.

Creating Notes for Your Fellow Animators.

Passing Information to Files.

Reading Text Files.

Industry Tip: Creating an “Expert Mode” MEL Script.

Chapter 2 Modeling.

Breaking Up NURBS Surfaces.

Important Rules for NURBS Modeling.

Cleaning Up NURBS Surfaces with Attach and Detach.

Closing Holes in NURBS Objects.

Building a NURBS Gear.

Building a NURBS Eye.

Mapping the Iris.

Cleaning Up Imported Polygons.

Industry Tip: Building a Polygon Head by Extruding Edges.

Industry Tip: Adjusting the Maya Grid for Linear Units.

Chapter 3 History, Scripting, and Animation.

Deleting Select History in the Hypergraph.

Using Variables within Expressions or MEL Scripts.

Choosing between Local and Global Variables.

Driving Vehicle Wheels and Bike Pedals.

Massaging Curves in the Graph Editor.

Removing Pops.

Introducing Float.

Mimicking Motion with Curves.

Wilting a Paint Effects Flower.

Creating Realistic Eye Movement.

Animating Realistic Camera Moves.

Limiting Camera Motion.

Fine-Tuning Camera Stops.

Matching the Camera to the Subject Matter.

Chapter 4 Dynamics, Particles, and the Ocean System.

Driving a Boat through an Ocean.

Creating an Ocean Wake.

Building a Dynamic Chain.

Filling a Water Glass with Particles.

Swapping Solid Geometry for Particles.

  Animating Gelatin with a Soft Body.

Generating Swarms with Goals.

Industry Tip: Scattering Geometry with Instanced Particles and Expressions.

Adding Additional Variation to Instanced Geometry.

Offsetting Animation within an Instancer.

Chapter 5 Character Rigging.

Resetting Bind Poses with dagPose.

Creating a Poor Man’s Foot and Leg Rig.

Controlling the Leg and Foot Rig.

Setting Up an Easy Spine Controller.

Picking Up a Prop with a Constraint.

Using Blended Wire Deformers for Facial Rigging.

Weighting a Head with the Component Editor.

Using the Paint Skin Weights Tool.

Preventing Cluster Drift.

Creating a Spline IK Spine.

Industry Tip: Creating an Advanced Arm Rig.

Chapter 6 Texturing.

Building a Texture Library.

Choosing Texture Bitmaps.

Exporting Maya Shaders.

Fractals and Noise in Math, Nature, and Maya.

Combining Generic Bitmaps in Maya.

Coloring Particles Individually.

Coloring Software-Rendered Particles.

Texturing Paint Effects Tubes.

Controlling the Paint Effects Texture.

Industry Tip: Rendering ZBrush Displacement Maps in Maya.

Chapter 7 Lighting.

Mastering 1-, 2-, and 3-point Lighting.

Adding the Second Light.

Adding the Third Light.

Mastering Naturalistic Lighting.

Setting the Mood with Light Color and Position.

Creating Stylistic Lighting.

Setting Up Believable Lamplight.

Forcing Decay on Directional and Ambient Lights.

Industry Tip: Unusual Lighting Techniques.

Producing Quality Depth Map Shadows.

Chapter 8 Rendering.

Splitting Up Renders per Object.

Rendering Interlocking Characters in Separate Passes.

Splitting Up Renders per Shading Component.

Rendering Lone Shadows.

Rendering Multiple Passes with the Render Layer Editor.

Mastering Render Layer Editor Intricacies.

Avoiding Raytraced "Black Pits."

Rendering a Wireframe for Your Reel.

Rendering a Wireframe with the Hardware Render Buffer.

Rendering a Wireframe with a Custom Shader.

General Rendering Tips for Your Reel.

Chapter 9 Advanced Rendering Techniques.

Rendering OpenEXR and .hdr Images with mental ray.

Viewing HDR Images.

Texturing with HDR Images.

Previewing HDR Images in the Render View Window.

Rendering Super-White Values with mental ray.

Choosing Between 16-Bit and HDR Formats.

Compositing 16-Bit and HDR Images.

Lighting with LDR and HDR Images.

Importing ZBrush Normal Maps.

Normal Mapping in Maya.

Normal Mapping with the Transfer Maps Window.

Linking and Unlinking Shadows.

Chapter 10 Demo Reels and Project Work Flow.

Adding to Your Demo Reel.

Rendering Models for Your Reel.

Preparing Animation for Your Reel.

Editing and Outputting Your Demo Reel.

Calibrating Your Monitor.

Creating 3D on Multiple Machines.

Setting Up a Render Farm.

Sharing Texture Libraries.

Estimating Project Requirements.

Industry Tip: Animation Project Management.

Prepping Animation for Video.

Prepping Animation for 35mm Film.

Finding an Audience for a 3D Short Film.

Distributing on the Internet.

Screening at Film Festivals.

Index.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

描述

這本實用書籍專為忙碌的Maya使用者設計,提供了數十個來自多年經驗的技巧、解決方法和快捷方式,幫助您更好地且更快地在Maya中工作。從建模、動畫、綁定到貼圖和照明,這本書將幫助您優化工作流程並提升技能。書中包含了豐富的彩色插圖,以加強概念的理解。

內容包括:
- 創建從簡單到複雜的MEL視窗
- 掌握NURBS建模技巧
- 清理導入的多邊形
- 創建逼真的相機移動動畫
- 建立簡單的腿部和脊柱控制器
- 結合簡單的紋理以獲得複雜的效果
- 應用自然和HDR照明技術
- 導入ZBrush位移和法線貼圖
- 為視頻或35mm電影準備動畫

附帶的CD包含了有價值的Maya演示軟件、場景文件和與書中技術相匹配的紋理位圖。

目錄

- 簡介
- 第1章:自定義和MEL腳本
- 第2章:建模
- 第3章:歷史、腳本化...