Complete Maya Programming

Complete Maya Programming by David Gould

Learning Maya, the world's leading 3D animation and effects package, is a challenge. This guide helps the reader learn how to customize and extend Maya with scripts and plugins that take control and productivity to new levels. It includes real-world examples illustrating applications of Maya programming.

"David's book is an excellent learning tool and reference for novice and veteran Maya developers alikeMaya developers can become more productive with MEL and the Maya API by applying what they learn from this book." --Tracy Narine, Maya API Technical Lead, Alias"David Gould is an expert at using, programming, and teaching Maya, and it shows. People who need to program Maya will find this book essential. Even Maya users who don't intend to do extensive programming should read this book for a better understanding of what's going on under the hood. Compact yet thorough, it covers both MEL and the C++ API, and is written to be informative for both novice and expert programmers. Highly recommended!" --Larry Gritz, Exluna/NVIDIA, co-author of Advanced RenderMan"This book should be required reading for all Maya programmers, novice and expert alike. For the novice, it provides a thorough and wonderfully well thought-out hands-on tutorial and introduction to Maya. The book's greatest contribution, however, is that in it David shares his deep understanding of Maya's fundamental concepts and architecture, so that even the expert can learn to more effectively exploit Maya's rich and powerful programming interfaces." --Philip J. Schneider, Disney Feature Animation, co-author of Geometric Tools for Computer Graphics"Having provided a technical review of David Gould's Complete Maya Programming, I must say that this book is the definitive text for scripting and plug-in development for Maya. Never before has there been such a concise and clearly written guide to programming for Maya. Any user smart enough to pick up this book would be better off for it." --Chris Rock, technical director at "a Large Animation Studio in Northern California"If you ever wanted to open the Maya toolbox, this is your guide. With clear step-by-step instructions, you will soon be able to customize and improve the application, as well as create your own extensions, either through the MEL scripting language or the full C++ API." --Christophe Hery, Industrial Light & Magic

David A. D. Gould is an award-winning computer graphics artist and programmer with over a decade of distinguished accomplishments that span the globe. Among his diverse credits are technology development for Walt Disney Feature Animation, development of the Entropy renderer at Exluna, and 3D graphics chip design at Nvidia. He also developed Illustrate!, the leading toon and technical illustration renderer. David's filmography includes such films as The Lord of the Rings and King Kong.

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ISBN 13	9781558608351
ISBN 10	1558608354
Title	Complete Maya Programming
Author	David Gould
Series	The Morgan Kaufmann Series In Computer Graphics
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Elsevier Science & Technology
Year published	2003-01-07
Number of pages	528
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