Maya 4 - 30 Przykladow Animacji 3D

Maya 4 - 30 Przykladow Animacji 3D - Mikom 2002

	Maya is a high-end software package for creating 3D animations. The program is being used for creating Computer Games, animations for the internet, objects for industrial design, special effects and movies - from TV-ads to Hollywood movies like Final Fantasy, The Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. Maya used to be expensive. Recently it became much more affordable. You find a demo version of Maya 3 on the CD of this book. If you have a good internet connection, download the free demo version of Maya. It's available via Alias\|Wavefront's website.

Originally published by Addison-Wesley, Germany, the book is now available in several translations.	The original; click for details
	The Polish translation of the book was released by Mikom in summer 2002.
Originally, the book is 190 pages and full colour. The Polish edition offers 180 pages in black and white plus a full colour section of 4 pages at the end.
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Here you can download two demo chapters from the modeling part of the book. One ("Plastyczne postaci") covers modeling and rendering a knubbly person using subdivision surfaces and displacement mapping, the other one ("Blotnik samochodowy") demonstrates a straight-forward way to model a car's fender. The pdf file is of excellent black and white quality and 2.3 MB large.	Download demo chapters
	The CD coming with the book contains all 30 scene files plus a couple of rendered movies, several plug-ins and a demo version of Maya 3. The book is 100% compatible with Maya 4.5 released in late summer 2002. What it obviously doesn't do is cover the new Fluid Dynamic effects of version 4.5. Things for the future ;-)