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Mastering Maya 8.5
by John Kundert-Gibbs, Mick Larkins, Dariush Derakhshani, Eric Kunzendorf
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Sybex (2007-04-09)
ISBN: 0470128453
EAN: 9780470128459
Dewey Decimal #: 006.693
Binding/Media: Paperback - 880 pages
SKU: 102009-0354
Condition: New
Comments: 0470128453 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Take your Maya skills to new levels with the sophisticated coverage in this authoritative Autodesk Maya Press reference and tutorial. From key basics through advanced techniques, a team of Maya experts provides you with the very latest professional-level instruction on Maya Complete and Maya Unlimited through tutorials and hands-on practice. Whether a novice or an advanced user of Maya, you’ll find everything from key basics through advanced techniques. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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Customer Reviews
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MASTERING MAYA 8.5
Rating  (4)
Date: 2009-09-02
Hi I recently purchased Mastering Maya 8.5 for my son who is doing animation. The book is very informative and helpful to his studies. I was also very pleased with the delivery time and service.Unfortunadly I can not go into any more details or specific because the book was not for me and have no idear about the books topic.
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frustrating
Rating  (1)
Date: 2009-03-19
I have gone through this book page by page and done all the exercises. It is full of errors. They say one thing when they mean another, refer to illustrations that aren't there, tell you to do things that don't work. There isn't a single chapter or exercise that doesn't have some sort of error in it that takes forever to troubleshoot and circumvent. This book needs some serious editing. The only reason more people haven't given it a bad review is that I don't think anyone has actually read the whole thing in detail.
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Great Book
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-01-07
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I bought this book to help understand nCloth in Maya and it was very helpful with explaining the different properties and how to create different effects. I can't speak for the other sections in the book but the chapters on cloth were very helpful for me.
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Bent corners
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-11-13
0 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was actualy surprised at the way my items where packaged. Mastering Maya8.5 is a pretty big book and it ended up being shrink wrapped with another item and these items weren't boxed. In putting these two items together and packaging them the way they were the book ended up with horrible corner damage. This is the first time I have ever been dissapointed with Amazon.
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Great for intermediate 3D users, even if new to Maya..
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-09-01
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
I bought this book along with "Learning Autodesk Maya 8: Foundation" here on Amazon, and have found Mastering Maya 8.5 to be a much better help. I am relatively new to Maya, but have a 3D background (and 2d of course), applying it to mechanical engineering applications using other Autodesk products for around 10 years.
My work experience (even though it is in a different field than what Maya is used for) has given me a leg up on learning Maya (sort of, as Maya is its OWN world entirely compared to all the other programs I've learned, as they are just for modeling, not animation, texturing, lighting, etc.). Just so everyone knows that my review on this book is also tainted by my work history.
Using this along with Gnomon Workshop DVD's has made me a lot more proficient at what I need to do for work in the real world a LOT faster than trying to use "Learning AutoDesk Maya 8, Foundation".
I would recommend it for the intermediate 3D modeler/artist over all the other books I've looked through in friend's libraries, especially if you are actually USING 8.5 as opposed to older versions of Maya, of course :)
Very very good advice immediately in Chapter 1, regarding learning Maya in general, "The Maya interface can be a bit intimidating, and it's not fair to expect yourself to pick it up right up and remember where everything is"... also "Try not to rush it.." Maya is a large mountain of a program, and this book has helped me along my path quite a bit.
For the new Maya user who has a 3d background in other programs, I would recommend this as a first book, even though it has the word "mastering" in the title. Also, the Gnomon workshop DVD's on Maya are very good also if you can afford them or borrow them from a friend.
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