Beginner's Guide to Character Creation in Maya

Excellent book, definitely more of the upper mid level range though not for beginners. Really a thorough walkthrough of the entire pipeline from modeling through texturing, rigging, and a little animation

It was better than I thought. It helped me so much in my college class. So much information and it lays it out in the best way.

I have always wanted to learn how to create characters in 3D for all the various art work that I want to do. This seems like a good way to get to know the software and have fun learning the various steps to do all that.

All of the 3DTotal books are incredible, they're they best instructional art books on the market.

Very useful and a very nice approach

While it is very clear on the structure and progression of character creation, this book fall to to the "add some edge loops wherever" and "go ahead and retopologize" problems that I was hoping would be answered through following the instructions. It is hard to get very far into the book without needing to stop and find instruction elsewhere. I understand that you hand should not be held throughout all steps, but being dropped in before a foundation is set will scare away those this book was made for.I found a great number of the instructions helpful, and will continue to use this book as a reference, but be prepared to take breaks from it for more detailed help near the beginning.

Very useful

Love it excellent.

Richtig gutes Buch vor allem die Video Tutorials sind richtig interessant.Nachteile:1.Die Video Tutorials müssen heruntergeladen werden mit insgesamt über 55GB dauert dies eine weile. Andererseits hätte man für 55GB mindestens zwei Bluerays gebraucht die sich dann sicherlich im Preis niedergeschlagen hätten. Deswegen ist dieser Umstand meiner Meinung nach vertretbar.2.Fürs herrunterladen wir ein Torrent clint benötigt. :(Alles in allem überzeugt dieses Buch mit seinem gesamten Kontent.

Excelente libro. gran calidad de impresión, muy descriptivo en cada capítulo. Definitivamente el mejor libro de su clase. Imprescindible para cualquier persona que quiera saber el proceso de creación de un personaje 3D.

Aunque a día de hoy tengamos muchos tutoriales en internet, cursos, youtube,etc. para los que les guste los libros está bien, tiene cosas muy interesantes, enseña muy bien una buena base desde el inicio y siempre se puede tener a mano para echarle un vistazo para aclarar alguna duda puntual o ver algún tip.

Great to finally get a guide to Maya that I can actually follow. The steps are clearly written ( and followable), and the pictures and all the videos make a huge difference. The fundamentals part for each chapter has really helped clear up why you actually do what you do in Maya. The anatomy bit was really helpful for modelling. Really recommend it

Ottimo libro possedendo le basi di Maya.Consigliato.