Autodesk Maya 2014 Essentials


The premiere book on getting started with Maya 2014

Whether you’re just beginning, or migrating from another 3D application, this step-by-step guide is what you need to get a good working knowledge of Autodesk Maya 2014. Beautifully illustrated with full-color examples and screenshots, Autodesk Maya 2014 Essentials explains the basics of Maya as well as modeling, texturing, animating, setting a scene, and creating visual effects. You’ll absorb important concepts and techniques, and learn how to confidently use Maya tools the way professionals do.

Each chapter includes fun and challenging hands-on projects, which you can do as you go using the downloadable files from the book’s website. They include starting and ending files, so you can compare your results to how professionals do the projects. This information-packed Autodesk Official Press book also helps you prepare for the Autodesk Maya 2014 certification exams.

  • Helps beginners and those migrating from other 3D animation and effects programs get up and running on Autodesk Maya 2014
  • Features step-by-step tutorials, hands-on exercises with downloadable files, and four-color examples and screenshots
  • Covers modeling, texturing, animating, visual effects, lighting, compositing, setting a scene, and more
  • Written by an Autodesk Authorized Author and is an Autodesk Official Press
  • Autodesk Maya is the industry-leading 3D animation and effects software used in movies, games, cartoons, short films, commercials, and other animation

Get firsthand experience with Maya 2014, as well as an initial start on preparing for the Autodesk Maya 2014 Certified Professional exam, with Autodesk Maya 2014 Essentials.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Understanding the Maya Interface
Chapter 2. Creating Your First Animation
Chapter 3. Modeling with Polygons, Part 1
Chapter 4. Modeling with Polygons, Part 2
Chapter 5. Modeling with Polygons, Part 3
Chapter 6. Sur facing Your Character
Chapter 7. Get ting Bent Out of Shape: Blend Shapes
Chapter 8. Dem Bones: Set ting Up Your Joint System
Chapter 9. Weighting Your Joints
Chapter 10. Rigging Your Character
Chapter 11. Set ting the Scene: Creating an Environment
Chapter 12. Making It Move: Animating Your Character
Chapter 13. Let There Be Light: Lighting Your Shot
Chapter 14. Rendering and Compositing Your Scene

Book Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (July 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1118575075
  • ISBN-13: 978-1118575079
Download [98.4 MiB]

You may also like...

No Responses

  1. binaryneurodripfeed says:

    I believe the uploaded RAR file is corrupt. The PDF is 105,583,103 bytes (compressed to 103,170,080 bytes), but the RAR file is only 44,302,336 bytes.

    Please re-upload.

    Many thanks Wow!. You’re the best !

  2. vinh says:

    hi,
    The .rar file seems to be corrupt. The fie size is only 42.3 MB.

    Best Regards.

  3. qingcheng89 says:

    in this page the information shows that rar file’s size is 98.4M,but the file in prefiles.com just has 42.2M,and i can’t unarchive it.
    so what’s the reason?

  4. madcracker says:

    Bad file…can you fix it?! Thanks

  5. sammysterling says:

    is there a problem with the rar file???an error occurs while extracting..

  6. agurbanov says:

    hello, there is problem with rar archive, i downloaded it many times but could not to extract it, always the same problem.

  7. singlewind says:

    The file is corrupted! Could you help to reupload?

  8. phadron says:

    broken archive. not 98.4 MB but 42.2MB.
    pls fix.
    tnx!

  9. ricardozam says:

    Hi thank you for the e-book but the Archive on Prefiles.com is broken.
    It should be 98,4 MB as it is detailed on descrption page but it is only 42,2 MB

  10. oscar09 says:

    Please fill in with a book full size 98 MB and 44 MB uploaded only πŸ˜₯

  11. Wow! says:

    Reuploaded.
    Please download again. Thank all of you :).

  12. obgauu7572z says:

    this file is corrupted. Could you please reupload ? πŸ™‚

  13. phadron says:

    tnx WOW! now is perfect! πŸ˜†

Leave a Reply