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Create positively dazzling effects 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.

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• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Texture Effects
• Creating Animated Lighting Effects with Ramp Textures
• Creating the Light Geometry
• Shading the Lights
• Creating Glowing Lights
• Shading the UFO Dome
• Streaking Energy Effects
• Know Your Glows
• Creating the Energy Geometry
• Creating a Mask with a Second Ramp
• Connecting the Ramp to the Motion Path Output Value
• Reconnecting the Energy Shader
• Layering with Multiple UV Sets: The Zombie's Hand
• Creating Multiple UV Sets
• Creating the Mask for the Spreading Infection
• Creating a Splotch
• Bringing the Color Back
• Abusing Ambient Occlusion: The Sci Fi Scanner
• Creating the Scanner Shader
• Tuning the Shader
• Controlling Particles with Textures: Swimming Bacteria
• Creating the Particle and Goals
• Creating the Ramps
• Adjusting the Ramps
• Chapter 2 Particle Effects
• Particle Instancing and Expressions: Creating a 3D Audio Meter
• Using the Instancer
• Animating the Meter
• Duplicating the Meter
• Particle Collisions: The Classic Force Field Effect
• Creating the Force Field
• Creating the Look of the Shield
• Ray Gun Impact Effect
• Editing the Instances
• Animating the Force Field
• Instancing with Paint Effects: Pushing Up the Daisies
• Setting Up Collisions
• Creating the Flower
• Creating the Flower Object Cycle
• Controlling the Growth with Expressions
• Using Cycle Emission: The Plasma Ball
• Creating the Plasma Emitter
• Cycle Emission
• Containing the Particles
• Collision Events
• The Secondary Particles
• Polishing the Plasma
• Influencing Cameras with Particles
• Creating the Particle Rig
• Adding Dynamic Motion to the Particles
• Attaching the Camera to the Particle Rig
• Tuning the Motion
• Creating the Blood
• Creating the Blood Cell Rotation
• Chapter 3 Rigging for Effects
• The Vibrating Rig: Making a Tentacle Shake
• Disconnecting the Animated Rig
• Creating a Vibrating Joint
• Duplicating the Vibrating Joint
• Adding the Shakers to the Rig
• Reconnecting the Tentacle
• Controlling the Vibration
• Inverse Kinematic Splines: Making a Tentacle Climb
• Drawing the Main Tentacle Curve
• Adding Joints to the Curve
• Animating the Curve
• Adjusting the Animation
• Creating Joints for the Tentacle
• Activating the IK Spline Tool
• Animating the IK Spline Offset
• Joints and Constraints: The Telescopic Car Suspension Rig
• Creating the Telescoping Leg
• Creating the Telescopic Rig
• Setting Limits for the Scale X Attribute
• Creating an IK Handle for the Leg Joints
• Creating an Automated Scaling Control
• Duplicating the Leg Rig
• Placing the Legs
• Constraining the Wheels
• Creating Front and Rear Controls
• Making the Car Move
• The Inverse Kinematic Spline Tool and Lattices
• Setting Up the Lattice
• Adding Joints to the Lattice
• Adding an IK Spline to the Joints
• Animating the Squashing Effect
• Creating a Twist
• Chapter 4 Creative Blend Shape Use
• Blend Shapes and Lattices
• Revolving a Surface
• Creating a Blend Shape for the Profile Curve
• Setting Up a Control View Camera
• Setting Up Blend Shape Controls
• Making the Vase Spin
• Animating the Sculpting of the Vase
• Deforming the Blend Shape Lattice with Joints
• Blend Shape In-Betweens
• Working with Blend Shape Targets
• Painting Blend Shape Weights
• Creating the Blend Shape Sequence
• Adjusting the Animation
• Rigging the Pod
• Animating the Pod
• Animating the Eyes
• Creating the Time Lapse Effect
• Interactive Blend Shape Rigs
• Crea

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Eric Keller has been using Autodesk's Maya to create professional animations since version 1 was released and has been an enthusiast ever since. He is currently a high-end animator for film, television, and scientific visualization. His clients include Disney, ESPN, Hewlett-Packard, CBS, and ABC. Prior to that, he created animations for some of the world's top researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was a contributing author to Mastering Maya 7 and Mastering Maya 8.5 (Sybex).