- This full-color title shows animators how to thrive in a fast-paced creative environment by showing them how to create amazing visual effects and solve tough animation problems as if their lives depended on it
- Provides insight to using specific tools in unique ways, such as ramp textures (including animating eyes, UFOs, or a swarm of flies), particles (using Paint FX, cameras, and textures), joints (mastering cameras and lattices), blendshapes (how-to’s for facial animation, soft bodies, triggering weights), custom tools (curves and surfaces), and more
- The step-by-step tutorials are presented in a fun, engaging style
- The CD-ROM includes Maya demo software, scene files, and beginning and ending files for every project in the book
