This exceptional, full-color Autodesk Maya Press title -- produced by Autodesk, the software's creators -- uses an award-winning movie short as the basis for the book's all-new hands-on tutorials. The book provides clear step-by-step projects to help you understand the modeling and animation stages of production. You'll learn how to build models with a variety of surface types and then make them move with a wide range of animation techniques as well as how to make sound decisions from the beginning to save unnecessary challenges further down the pipeline. As a bonus feature, this book also introduces some animation techniques using Alias MotionBuilder.
Topics include:
- Polygon Modeling.
- NURBS Modeling.
- General Modeling Issues.
- Tessalation; Texturing.
- Using layers to organize your work.
- Creating Skeleton Chains and edit joint orientation.
- Setting up Single Chain, Rotation Plane, and Spline IK Solvers.
- Using Set Driven Key to create powerful yet simple control systems.
- Understanding and using Forward and Inverse Kinematics.
- Simulating the deformation of clothing using Wire Deformers and Set Driven Key.
- Drive joint rotation with a Blendshape Slider to help consolidate control windows.
- Using Pole Vector constraints as a fast and easy way of achieving realistic motion in arms and legs.
- Creating complex and subtle character deformations through the use of Clusters and Lattice.
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