Overview:

Learning Maya 7: The Modeling & Animation Handbook : This exceptional, full-color Maya Press title produced by Alias, the software's creators takes a brand-new, creative approach to teaching modeling and animation. Using characters from the Academy Award-winning short film "The ChubbChubbs", it demonstrates the basic workflows and features needed to create models and animations in Maya. Written for experienced users who are already familiar with the Maya interface and basic techniques, it addresses everything from modeling and tessalation to forward and inverse kinematics, and shows you how to achieve realistic motion and subtle character and clothing deformations.