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Mastering Autodesk® Maya® 2016
by Todd Palamar
Mastering Autodesk Maya 2016: Autodesk Official Press
Introduction
Who Should Buy This Book
What's Inside
Conventions
How to Contact the Author
Chapter 1 Working in Autodesk Maya
Color Management
Creating and Editing Nodes
Creating Maya Projects
The Bottom Line
Chapter 2 Introduction to Animation
Using Joints and Constraints
Inverse Kinematics
Keyframe Animation
The Graph Editor
Playblast and FCheck
Driven Keys
Motion-Path Animation
Motion Trails
Animating Constraints
Animation Layers
Grease Pencil
The Bottom Line
Chapter 3 Hard-Surface Modeling
Understanding Polygon Geometry
Understanding NURBS
Using Subdivision Surfaces
Employing Image Planes
Modeling NURBS Surfaces
Converting NURBS Surfaces to Polygons
Modeling with Polygons
The Bottom Line
Chapter 4 Organic Modeling
Implement Box Modeling
Employ Build-Out Modeling
Sculpt Polygons
Use Retopology Tools
The Bottom Line
Chapter 5 Rigging and Muscle Systems
Understanding Rigging
Creating and Organizing Joint Hierarchies
Rigging the Giraffe
Human Inverse Kinematics
Skinning Geometry
The Maya Muscle System
The Bottom Line
Chapter 6 Animation Techniques
Working with Deformers
Animating Facial Expressions Using Blend Shapes
Animating a Scene Using Nonlinear Deformers
Creating a Jiggle Effect
Optimizing Animations with the Geometry Cache
Applying Motion Capture
The Bottom Line
Chapter 7 Lighting with mental ray
Shadow-Casting Lights
Indirect Lighting: Global Illumination
Indirect Illumination: Final Gathering
Image-Based Lighting
Physical Sun and Sky
mental ray Area Lights
Light Shaders
The Bottom Line
Chapter 8 mental ray Shading Techniques
Shading Concepts
Layering Shaders
The Bottom Line
Chapter 9 Texture Mapping
UV Texture Layout
Bump and Normal Mapping
Displacement Mapping
Subsurface Scattering
ShaderFX
The Bottom Line
Chapter 10 Paint Effects
Using the Paint Effects Canvas
Painting on 3D Objects
Understanding Strokes
Designing Brushes
Create Complexity by Adding Strokes to a Curve
Shaping Strokes with Behavior Controls
Animating Strokes
Rendering Paint Effects
The Bottom Line
Chapter 11 Rendering for Compositing
Render Layers
Render Passes
Setting Up a Render with mental ray
mental ray Quality Settings
The Bottom Line
Chapter 12 Introducing nParticles
Creating nParticles
Making nParticles Collide with nRigids
Using nParticles to Simulate Liquids
Emitting nParticles Using a Texture
Using Wind
Shading nParticles and Using Hardware Rendering to Create Flame Effects
Controlling nParticles with Fields
Rendering Particles with mental ray
The Bottom Line
Chapter 13 Dynamic Effects
Creating nCloth Objects
Creating nCloth and nParticle Interactions
Soft Body Dynamics
Creating Flying Debris Using nParticle Instancing
Animating Instances Using nParticle Expressions
Bullet Physics
The Bottom Line
Chapter 14 Hair and Clothing
Understanding XGen
Animating Using Dynamic Curves
Adding Hair to a Character
Styling Hair
Rendering Hair
Creating Clothing for Characters
Painting nCloth Properties
The Bottom Line
Chapter 15 Maya Fluids
Using Fluid Containers
Fluid Interactions
Igniting the Fuel
Rendering Fluid Containers
Creating Fluids and nParticle Interactions
Creating Water Effects
The Bottom Line
Chapter 16 Scene Management and Virtual Filmmaking
Organizing Complex Node Structures with Assets
File References
Determining the Image Size and Film Speed of the Camera
Creating and Animating Cameras
Creating Custom Camera Rigs
Applying Depth of Field and Motion Blur
Using Orthographic and Stereo Cameras
Using the Camera Sequencer
The Bottom Line
Appendix A The Bottom Line
Appendix B Autodesk Maya 2016 Certification
EULA
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