Maya visual effects : the innovator's guide
Record details
- ISBN: 1118441605
- ISBN: 9781118441602
- ISBN: 1118654625
- ISBN: 9781118654620
- ISBN: 1118654889
- ISBN: 9781118654880
- ISBN: 1118654552
- ISBN: 9781118654552
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Edition: 2nd edition.
- Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- 1. Texture Effects -- Create Animated Effects with a Ramp Texture -- Use Ambient Occlusion for Holographic Effects -- Generate Creative Text Effects -- 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 -- 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 -- 4. Creative Blend Shape Techniques -- Create an Interactive Blend Shape Rig -- Combine Blend Shapes and Other Deformers to Create Swimming Plankton -- Automate Blend Shape Sequences Using MEL -- 5. Paint Effects -- Create Bursts of Electric Energy -- Animate a Blood Vessel Growing on an Eyeball -- Use Paint Effects Modifiers to Deform Geometry -- 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 -- 7. Fluid Effects -- Create Shockwaves for a Futuristic Spaceship -- Propel a Rocket Using Fluids -- Use a Fluid Mesh to Build a Head -- 8. nHair and Fur Effects -- Create an Animated Jellyfish with nHair -- Create a Dynamic Rig for Medusa's Snakes -- Animate Crop Circles Using Fur. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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