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877905
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Naas, Paul.
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How to Cheat in Maya 2017 : : Tools and Techniques for Character Animation.
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| Publication Statement
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Milton :: Chapman and Hall/CRC,, 2018.
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How to Cheat Ser.
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1 online resource (521 pages)
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0429443137
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0815379943
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1498797083
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9780815379942
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9781498797085
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| Contents
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; How to Cheat and Why; Acknowledgments; How to Use This Book; 1: Animation Principles; Squash and Stretch; Anticipation; Staging; Straight Ahead/Pose to Pose; Overlapping Action/Follow-through; Slow In/Slow Out; Arcs; Secondary Action; Timing; Exaggeration; Solid Drawing; Appeal; Interlude; 2: Splines; How Splines Work; Splines and Spacing; Tangent Types; Spline Technique; Spline Reference; Interlude; 3: Graph Editor; Graph Editor Windup; Visual Tools; Working with Keys; Value Operators; Buffer Curves; Speed Cheats
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4: TechniquesAuto Key; Timeline Techniques; Cartoony Motion; Trax Editor; Copying Curves; Editable Motion Trails; IK and FK; IK/FK Switching; Character Sets; Grease Pencil Tool; Grease Pencil and Trails; Interlude; 5: Constraints; Parenting; Parent Constraints; Constraining a Prop; Constraint Weights; Animating with Constraints; Interlude; 6: Rigging Cheats; Rig Testing; Sprucing it Up; Rigging Props; Interlude; 7: Standing Out; Adding BlendShapes; Adding Clusters; Wrap Deformer; Adding Hair and Cloth; Interlude; 8: Workflow; Planning/Reference; Converting Cycles; Stepped Keys
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Layers for TextureInterlude; Index
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Stepped PreviewMoving Holds When Splining; Moving Holds with the Retime Tool; Refining Arcs in Polish; Final Texture; Interview; 9: Cycles; Cycle Basics; Stride Length; Walk Cycle; Flying Cycle; Quad Cycles; 10: Referencing; Referencing Basics; Offline Edits; Saving Reference Edits; Interlude; 11: Facial Animation; Planning and Prep; Core Poses; Lip Sync 1-Jaw Motion; Lip Sync 2-Mouth Corners; Lip Sync 3-Mouth Shapes; Lip Sync 4-Tongue; Blinks; Blink and Brows; Eye Darts; Final Touches; Interlude; 12: Animation Layers; How Animation Layers Work; Animation Layer Basics; Cheating a Cycle
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This is not a book about Maya software with a few animation pointers thrown in here and there. This is a guide to Maya software written by professional animators. This book provides you with complete, set-by-step walkthroughs of essential animation techniques that increase your speed and efficiency while using Maya 2017 for character animation. From curves to constraints, this book covers all of the methods available in the latest version of Maya. Featuring gold-mine coverage this book teaches you new techniques for working with characters in animation tests and short films. Accompanied by a companion site, this is the one and only guide to get you up to speed.
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Computer animation.
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Computer animation.
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COMPUTERS-- General.
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Maya (Computer file)
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Maya (Computer file)
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| Dewey Classification
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006.696
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TR897.7
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