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Title: Professional Use Book
Review: MAYA 4 FUNDAMENTALSJim Lammers with Lee GoodingPUBLISHER: New RidersREVIEWED BY: Barbara RhoadesBOOK REVIEW: Maya 4 Fundamentals is a book on 3D animation for the professional designer wanting to learn Maya from the bottom up. It contains a tear-out card of hotkeys on the very first page thus preventing a reader from having to hunt through the book for what a key does.Beginning with Chapter 2, the book walks you through how to use Maya and interact with the CD. When the information is provided on the included CD, there is a sidebar called ON THE CD and it tells you exactly which file to use. There are tips and traps sidebars as well.Know what NURBS are? If not, check out page 115 for a definition. Cameras, rendering, lighting, polygons, materials and artistry are subjects contained in the rest of the chapters. The wording in the book gives enough detail to make understanding what is being described easy enough and allows the reader to follow along using the CD....
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