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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Overview
- Maya Basics
- Polygonal Modeling
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lesson
- Lesson 1: Modeling a polygonal mesh
- Introduction
- Setting modeling preferences
- Using 2D reference images
- Creating a polygon primitive
- Modeling in shaded mode
- Model symmetry
- Selecting components by painting
- Selecting edge loops
- Editing components in the orthographic views
- Editing components in the perspective view
- Drawing a polygon
- Extruding polygon components
- Bridging between edges
- Adding polygons to a mesh
- Splitting polygon faces
- Terminating edge loops
- Deleting construction history
- Mirror copying a mesh
- Working with a smoothed mesh
- Creasing and hardening edges on a mesh
- Beyond the lesson
- NURBS Modeling
- Subdivision Surfaces
- Animation
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Keyframes and the Graph Editor
- Lesson 2: Set Driven Key
- Lesson 3: Path animation
- Lesson 4: Nonlinear animation with Trax
- Introduction
- Open the first scene for the lesson
- Creating clips with Trax
- Changing the position of clips with Trax
- Editing the animation of clips
- Reusing clips within Trax
- Soloing and muting tracks
- Scaling clips within Trax
- Open the second scene for the lesson
- Creating clips from motion capture data
- Extending the length of motion capture data
- Redirecting the motion within a clip
- Beyond the lesson
- Lesson 5: Inverse kinematics
- Introduction
- Open the scene for the lesson
- Understanding hierarchies
- Viewing hierarchies using the Hypergraph
- Creating a skeleton hierarchy
- Parenting a model into a skeleton hierarchy
- Applying IK to a skeleton hierarchy
- Creating a control object for an IK system
- Constraining an IK system
- Limiting the range of motion of an IK system
- Simplifying the display of a hierarchy
- Applying parent constraints on an IK system
- Planning an animation for an IK system
- Animating an IK system
- Beyond the lesson
- Character Setup
- Polygon Texturing
- Rendering
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Rendering a scene
- Introduction
- Open the scene for the lesson
- Creating shading materials for objects
- Refining shading materials for objects
- Maya renderers
- Rendering a single frame using IPR
- Rendering using the Maya software renderer
- Batch rendering a sequence of animation frames
- Viewing a sequence of rendered frames
- Beyond the lesson
- Lesson 2: Shading surfaces
- Lesson 3: Lights, shadows, and cameras
- Lesson 4: Global Illumination
- Lesson 5: Caustics
- Dynamics
- Painting
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Lesson 1: Painting in 2D using Paint Effects
- Lesson 2: Painting in 3D using Paint Effects
- Introduction
- Preparing for the lessons
- Brushes and strokes
- Rendering Paint Effects strokes
- Paint Effects on 3D objects
- Creating a surface to paint on
- Painting on objects
- Using turbulence with brush stroke tubes
- Using additional preset brushes
- Mesh brushes
- Converting mesh strokes to polygons
- Modifying a converted polygonal mesh
- Beyond the lesson
- Lesson 3: Painting textures on surfaces
- Expressions
- Scripting in Maya
- Index
Adding polygons to a mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Splitting polygon faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Terminating edge loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Deleting construction history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Mirror copying a mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Working with a smoothed mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Creasing and hardening edges on a mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Chapter 4
NURBS Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Preparing for the lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Lesson 1: Revolving a curve to create a surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Creating a profile curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Creating a revolve surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Editing a revolve surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Lesson 2: Sculpting a NURBS surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Preparing a surface for sculpting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Basic sculpting techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Additional sculpting techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Sculpting a nose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Sculpting eye sockets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Sculpting eyebrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Sculpting a mouth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Sculpting other facial features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Lesson 3: Lofting curves to create a surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Creating profile curves for a surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Duplicating curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Lofting a surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Modifying a primitive object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Using the Outliner to parent objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Beyond the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Chapter 5
Subdivision Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Preparing for the lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Lesson 1: Modeling a subdivision surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Creating a subdivision surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Splitting a surface in polygon proxy mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
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