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How to Cheat in Maya: Tools and Techniques for the Maya Animator [With DVD ROM]
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How to Cheat in Maya: Tools and Techniques for the Maya Animator [With DVD ROM] Paperback - 2009

by Eric Luhta

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This comprehensive guide to animating with Maya contains gold-mine coverage, including animation techniques, using Maya's tools with the 12 animation principles, working with constraints, and even foolproof lighting tricks to show off one's work.

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Take your animations to the next level with this essential guide to Maya 2010. Packed with character animation techniques and the secrets of professional animators, How to Cheat in Maya 2010 provides the tips and tools to help you create high quality animation in the most efficient way possible. This comprehensive guide to animating with Maya contains gold-mine coverage, including animation techniques, using Maya's tools with the 12 animation principles, working with constraints, and even foolproof lighting tricks to show off your work.

With this essential handbook, learn which circumstances call for which techniques, and how to get quality results fast. You will not only learn how to be productive in Maya, but also be given access under the hood to the actual scene files of a professional animator. Covering such topics such as pose to pose blocking, layered animation, fixing gimbal lock, facial animation, and much more, How to Cheat in Maya 2010 is an invaluable resource for artists and animators alike.

-- See "under the hood" of a professional animator's workflow with beginning and ending scene files for every technique and workflow example in the book.

--Complete, step-by-step walkthroughs of essential techniques every animator needs to know such as walk cycles, pose-to-pose blocking, lip syncing to dialogue, and much, much more.

-- Proven "How to Cheat" series - Learn to create impressive, appealing animations using the fastest techniques possible, containing everything you need to know about Maya as a character animator.

--Includes rarely discussed topics, such as reading spline curves, avoiding gimbal lock, animation layers, creating appealing lighting for demo reels, and features interviews with some of the most experienced animation leads and TDs working in the industry

-- Learn to apply these professional techniques to your own animations with the accompanying downloadable resources which include all scene files to follow along with, as well as final versions to study in the Graph Editor

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  • Title How to Cheat in Maya: Tools and Techniques for the Maya Animator [With DVD ROM]
  • Author Eric Luhta
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Pap/DVD
  • Pages 326
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2009-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780240811888 / 0240811887
  • Weight 1.77 lbs (0.80 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.76 x 7.44 x 0.73 in (24.79 x 18.90 x 1.85 cm)
  • Category Computers - Other Applications
  • Library of Congress subjects Computer animation - Computer programs
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009040049
  • Dewey Decimal Code 006.696

About the author

Eric Luhta is a professional animator whose recent credits include Bioshock 2, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Horton Hears A Who!, and numerous television commercials. Eric has extensive experience with Autodesk's Maya, including teaching it, as an instructor for the Maya Training Program at AnimationMentor.com. He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and 3 computers.

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