Maya

John Kundert--Gibbs is director of the Master of Fine Arts in Computing program at Clemson University. Author of a number of publications on Maya, computer graphics, and dramatic literature, he directs students in producing animated shorts, creates effects for live action projects, and designs electronic media for theatrical productions. The book's contributing authors have a wide variety of experience producing animated shorts and features.

Part One: Beginnings: Modeling. One: Accelerating the Preproduction Process. Two: Modeling a SubDivision Surface Horse. Three: Organix odeling by Procedural Means. Part Two: Putting Things in Motion: Animation. Four: Animation and Motion Capture--Working Together. Five: Lip--Synching Real--World Projects. Part Three: The Numbers Game: Dealing with Complex Systems. Six: Creating Crowd Scenes from a Small Number of Base Models. Seven: Taming Chaos: Controlling Dynamics for Use in Plot--Driven Sequences. Eight: Complex Particle Systems. Nine: Creating a Graphic User Interface. Part Four: Endings: Surfacing and Rendering. Ten: Effective Natural Lighting. Eleven: Distributed Rendering. Index.