Introducing Maya 2008 (Paperback)

Description

Enter a whole new dimension with Introducing Maya 2008, your guide to the newest version of Autodesk's Academy-Award winning Maya 3D animation and effects software. Learn to build, render, and animate your own digital models and scenes like the pros with this step-by-step guide. Beginning with the basics, expert author Dariush Derakhshani explains Maya's core tools then moves on to provide straightforward and practical advice on the newest features of Autodesk Maya 2008. You'll get a solid grasp of core 3D and CG concepts while exploring the basics of NURBS, polygons, and subdivision surfaces. Coverage also includes shading and texturing, rigging for automated animation, creating more natural lighting with mental ray soft shadow maps, and using Maya's Render Layers and an Ambient Occlusion pass for greater reality. You'll be inspired by the full-color insert featuring Maya designs created by beginning users and creating awesome animations of your own in no time with this bestselling reference to Maya 2008.

1. Introduction to Computer Graphics and 3-D.

2. The Maya 2008 Interface.

3. Your First Maya Animation.

4. Modeling with Polygons.

5. Modeling with NURBS.

6. [Further Modeling Topics: Deformers and Subdivision Surfaces].

7. [Maya Shading and Texturing].

8. Introduction to Animation.

9. Further Animation Practices.

10. Maya Lighting.

11. [Maya Rendering].

12. Maya Dynamics.

 

描述

進入全新的維度，使用《Introducing Maya 2008》作為您對Autodesk最新版本的獲得奧斯卡獎的Maya 3D動畫和特效軟體的指南。這本逐步指南將教您如何建立、渲染和動畫化自己的數位模型和場景，就像專業人士一樣。從基礎知識開始，專家作者Dariush Derakhshani解釋了Maya的核心工具，然後提供了有關Autodesk Maya 2008最新功能的直接實用建議。在探索NURBS、多邊形和細分曲面的基礎知識的同時，您將對核心3D和CG概念有深入了解。內容還包括著色和紋理、用於自動動畫的骨骼系統、使用mental ray軟陰影圖為燈光創造更自然的效果，以及使用Maya的渲染層和環境遮蔽通道以獲得更真實的效果。您將被全彩插圖所啟發，這些插圖是由初學者創建的Maya設計，並且使用這本暢銷的Maya 2008參考書，您將能夠在短時間內創建出令人驚嘆的動畫。

目錄

1. 電腦圖形和3D介紹。
2. Maya 2008介面。
3. 您的第一個Maya動畫。
4. 使用多邊形進行建模。
5. 使用NURBS進行建模。
6. [進一步的建模主題：變形器和細分曲面]。
7. [Maya著色和紋理]。
8. 動畫介紹。
9. 進一步的動畫實踐。
10. Maya燈光。
11. [Maya渲染]。
12. Maya動力學。