The Game Animator's Guide to Maya®

Maya is the premier tool for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering, and is used by such game companies as Electronic Arts (Madden), Midway (Mortal Kombat), Nintendo (Metroid Prime), and Square Enix (Kingdom Hearts) Written by a production artist at a leading game company, this is the only book that applies Maya’s rigging and animation tools to real-world tasks and projects faced by professional game animators This Maya Press title covers modeling, texturing, animation, and special effects techniques that are used to create cutting-edge games Sidebars feature interviews with celebrity game animators working for today’s top game developers The bonus CD-ROM contains more than $3,000 worth of exclusive content, including models, high-resolution textures, animations, concept art, animation reference videos, and the Maya Personal Learning Editiono*The CD-ROM is not included with the digital version of this book.