Maya Visual Effects The Innovator's Guide

Create Dazzling Maya Visual Effects Out of Thin AirIf you need to create stunning effects on a tight deadline for finicky clients and demanding art directors, this book is for you. Go from Post-it Notes to positively dazzling with the unique insights and practical advice in this innovative guide from a working professional Maya artist. Need to create plasmatic energy by lunch? Animate a field of sprouting daisies before tomorrow's meeting? Fashion a force field by Friday? With Maya's flexible toolset and the unique tutorials in this book, you'll learn how to solve real-world problems, improvise, and finish your professional assignments on time and with flair. Animate a zombie hand transformation, UFO glow, and streaking energy with textures Make a tentacle shake and slither using expressions and joints Use Paint Effects to create twitching nerves and bacterial hair Split crystals with Rigid Body Dynamics Animate a collapsing rope bridge using Maya Hair Master particle instancing and collision effects Get a handle on scripting with MELKeller, Eric is the author of 'Maya Visual Effects The Innovator's Guide', published 2007 under ISBN 9780470111338 and ISBN 047011133X.