Maya Visual Effects The Innovator's Guide Autodesk Official Press

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 intermediate to advanced Maya user, Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide, Second Edition is what you need to meet the challenge. Professional Maya artist Eric Keller offers inspired solutions and hands-on projects, as well as numerous practical shortcuts and deadlines, so you learn to produce innovative CG assets from scratch, using Maya, on a deadline.
* Shows intermediate to advanced Maya users new solutions, workarounds, and shortcuts for creating Maya visual effects on deadline
* Gives readers plenty of hands-on projects, so they come up with solutions that they can add to their Maya toolsets
* Offers workable ideas that can be applied, no matter which version of Maya software is being used
* Presents projects in an engaging style, with pages of full-color imagery to illustrate concepts

Create amazing effects with the creative insights and fresh advice in this new edition of Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide.

Maya artists often have to find shortcuts and work-arounds to make the deadline while still delivering impeccable professional results. Sybex's Maya Visual Effects The Innovator's Guide, 2nd Edition takes that same "MacGyver" type approach as the first edition with new projects and new challenges for the intermediate to advanced Maya user.  Just like in the studio, each chapter presents a director's sketch on the back of a napkin envisioning fire, otherworldly phenomenon, and dreamlike sequences that the reader-artists have to interpret and bring to life in Maya.In an actual, professional production pipeline, working with Maya is seldom a step-by-step, by-the-numbers process. Art directors often give professional Maya animators a few storyboards and a description of what the animation or effect will be (maybe as little as a post-it note with a quick sketch) but they are not always equipped to tell you how to achieve the desired result. So you have to think like an inventor. Professional Maya artist Eric Keller has developed many of these techniques in professional effects and animation situations that required inspired solutions.

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 intermediate to advanced Maya user, Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide, Second Edition is what you need to meet the challenge. Professional Maya artist Eric Keller offers inspired solutions and hands-on projects, as well as numerous practical shortcuts and deadlines, so you learn to produce innovative CG assets from scratch, using Maya, on a deadline. Shows intermediate to advanced Maya users new solutions, workarounds, and shortcuts for creating Maya visual effects on deadline Gives readers plenty of hands-on projects, so they come up with solutions that they can add to their Maya toolsets Offers workable ideas that can be applied, no matter which version of Maya software is being used Presents projects in an engaging style, with pages of full-color imagery to illustrate concepts Create amazing effects with the creative insights and fresh advice in this new edition of Maya Visual Effects: The Innovator's Guide.