Creating Visual Effects in Maya

<p>Produce mind-blowing visual effects with Autodesk Maya. Gain the practical skills and knowledge you need to recreate phenomena critical to visual effects work including fire water smoke explosions and destruction as well as their integration with real-world film and video.</p><p>In <i>Creating Visual Effects in Maya</i> Maya master Lee Lanier has combined the latest studio techniques with multi-chapter hands-on projects and professionally-vetted workflows to bolster your CG toolkit. Engaging full-color tutorials cover:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Creating foliage fire and smoke with Paint Effects</li> <p> </p> <li>Growing Maya Fur and nHair on clothing characters and sets</li> <p> </p> <li>Replicating water smoke sparks swarms bubbles and debris with nParticles and nCloth</li> <p> </p> <li>Controlling scenes and simulations with expressions and MEL Python and PyMEL scripting</li> <p> </p> <li>Adding dust fog smoke rippling water and fireballs with Fluid Effects containers</li> <p> </p> <li>Creating damage with Effects presets deformers and animated textures</li> <p> </p> <li>Matchmoving and motion tracking with Maya and MatchMover</li> <p> </p> <li>Creating complex destruction by combining rigid bodies nParticles nCloth and Fluid Effects</li> <p> </p> <li>Setting up rendering and compositing mental ray render passes with Autodesk Composite Adobe After Effects and The Foundry Nuke</li> </ul><p>The companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/lanier) features a treasure trove of Maya MatchMover After Effects and Nuke project files image sequences texture bitmaps and MEL Python and PyMEL scripts allowing you to immediately apply the techniques taught in the book.</p>