The Game Artist's Guide to Maya
Alias' award-winning Maya 3D animation and effects softwarecontinues to lead the industry in technological innovation and isbeing adopted by more and more console and computer gamedevelopers. The Game Artist's Guide to Maya is an officialintroduction to creating 3D game art and animations with Maya, brought to you by Maya Press, a publishing partnership betweenAlias and Sybex. Written by a production artist at a prominent gamecompany, this detailed book focuses on the skills real game artistsuse daily to create stunning characters and environments.
By following the discussions and tutorials, you'll bring aconcept through the entire game art development pipeline, learningeverything from modeling, texturing, rigging, and animation, tospecial effects. You'll also glean insights from industryprofessionals and see how Maya has been used in popular games. Ifyou're a 3D game artist, or looking to become one, this book willhelp you master the skills and techniques you'll need to excel inthe competitive games industry.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
Create a game model using a concept image as your guideModel with predetermined real-time polycount limitations inmindView martial arts videos on the book's CD to animate yourcharacter more realisticallyPrepare a model for texturing with UV mapping and layouttechniquesCreate different kinds of texturesMaster the rigging process, from setting up a skeleton topreparing blend shapesPractice techniques for creating animation clips to work within the Trax EditorUse particle effects, such as sprites and animated geometry, toadd pizzazz to your modelYou Might Also Enjoy
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Rated 5 starsThe Game Artist's Guide to Maya
I think is an awesome book, it has taught me a lot about polygons in a game character for design purposes, over all great find and loved it! This book has helped me with my game design class in College. Creating games, and having fun now! Thanks Loved It!
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Rated 5 starsTHIS IS AWESOME
this book is really helpful to those advanced or noobs in maya(im the noob) and the instructions are very detailed, 10/10!!!
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Rated 5 starsAwsome!
Michael really did a great job in showing, in detail the game art production pipeline. I loved the way he went thoroughly through the creation of the character from image planes, all the way to final detailing. Another nice feature of the book was interviews from real people in the industry. They gave you valuable advice in how to get into the industry, and how to develope your skills to get there. All in all, this is the...
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Rated 5 starsBrilliant!
This book gives you all the primary skills and insights you need to make polygon characters from scratch to finish in Maya. It's simply brilliant! It's well written and its really one big easy-to-follow tutorial. It shows you the main modelling tools, detailed texturing, advanced rigging and animation and more. If you going to buy just one book on character animation in Maya, this is it.
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Rated 5 starsHard stuff made easy!
First of all, this is a great book. I read it cover-to-cover twice within the first 24 hours. Now don't get the title wrong, 3D modelling will never be easy, and no book can ever make it so. What a book can do, and this book does very well, is to get you started. After the first chapter, which is a very interesting and useful tour around the "what's" and "how's" of the games industry, the book goes on to describe every step...
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