Updated for Maya v5 with an additional chapter, and now in full color! The essential guide to creating video game art with Alias|Wavefront Maya.
Author: Lane Daughtry, revisions and additions by Rick McCann
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Product Details
Dimensions: 8.5" x 10.875"
Pages: 270 Full Color
ISBN: 0970753012
Binding: Paperback
MayaGamesTeacherAide.PDF is the free instructor's supplement for the Mesmer Press book Maya Illuminated: Games by Lane Daughtry and Rick McCann. In it you'll find a detailed sample curriculum you can cut up and rearrange any way you like, instructor notes, chapter overviews, tutorial outlines, quiz answers, and more! Download it now and open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader. (1603 kilobytes)
Download the Zip File of the scene files and images associated with the Maya Illuminated: Games book here. (3963 kilobytes)
"Maya Games is a must-have for anyone wanting to get into the gaming industry. The book is a great resource on theory and techniques behind creating game content. " -Suzanne Kaufman, Art Lead, Sucker Punch Games
Newly revised for Maya 5.x, with added information on rigging, an all-new chapter on skinning and weighting, and now in full color, Maya Illuminated: Games is a comprehensive guide to the powerful tools Maya gives you to create stunning game art. Inside you’ll find exhaustive coverage of both Maya’s polygonal modeling and UV mapping toolsets. Also covered is information on character rigging and animation as they apply to game work, skinning and weighting, and ways to use Maya for going beyond low-poly work for games. This book is a perfect companion for working game artists and aspiring game artists alike.
Complete coverage of:
The polygonal modeling toolset
Polygonal modeling theory
The UV mapping toolset
UV mapping tips and tricks
Character rigging issues for games
Making skeletal structures
Efficient rig control hierarchies
Skinning and Weighting
Animation issues for games
Animating cycles
Prerendering
Prelighting
Light baking
Environment design
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