Maya visual effects the innovator's guide

Create innovative CG solutions with Maya and this creative guide Professional Maya artists have to think on their feet. It's nothing for them to receive just vague sketches or incomplete ideas of what the studio wants and have to come up with something brilliant. If you're an intermediat...

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Autor principal: Keller, Eric (-)
Otros Autores: Dayan, Max
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley 2013.
Edición:2nd ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627952506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Texture Effects; Create Animated Effects with a Ramp Texture; Use Ambient Occlusion for Holographic Effects; Generate Creative Text Effects; Chapter 2: Particle Effects; Orchestrate a Flowering Tree with nParticles; Create a Beard of Bees Using a Force Field; Choreograph a School of Fish by Layering Particles; Chapter 3: Joint Rigging for Effects; Animate a Growing Bacterial Colony Using Joints; Use Joints to Jiggle Geometry; Animate a Magic Curling Brick Road Using Joints
  • Chapter 4: Creative Blend Shape TechniquesCreate an Interactive Blend Shape Rig; Combine Blend Shapes and Other Deformers to Create Swimming Plankton; Automate Blend Shape Sequences Using MEL; Chapter 5: Paint Effects; Create Bursts of Electric Energy; Animate a Blood Vessel Growing on an Eyeball; Use Paint Effects Modifiers to Deform Geometry; Chapter 6: nCloth Techniques; Use nCloth to Melt a Complex Gun Model; Trap 3D Text in a Spider Web with nConstraints; Use nCloth to Animate a Drop of Water; Chapter 7: Fluid Effects; Create Shockwaves for a Futuristic Spaceship
  • Propel a Rocket Using FluidsUse a Fluid Mesh to Build a Head; Chapter 8: nHair and Fur Effects; Create an Animated Jellyfish with nHair; Create a Dynamic Rig for Medusa's Snakes; Animate Crop Circles Using Fur; Index