Introducing Maya 8: 3D for Beginners

£13.33

The ULTIMATE guide to Maya - To be totally honest I hadn t the slightest clue about how to use this program, not even a notion of how to navigate the grid, or what half the features were. Although, I was so eager to learn it seeing I m an E-Media student and need all the graphical knowledge I can get! It just wasn t happening. So I bought this book and waow. This book has taught me so much already and I ve only been using it for a day! It s well layed out, and tutorials are given in very simple English, step-by-step, enough that even total idiots can understand. No pre-computer knowledge required.Overall, I m going to give this book 5 Stars, because I am extremely pleased it and it will stay with me forever. I totally and wholeheartedly reccommend this to anyone interested in learning Maya, or even just touching up on the fundamentals. For the price tag, this product simply is a steal. Buy it now!

The Madness Of Maya - The first thing you should know before buying this book is that it might say Introducing Maya 8 on the cover but on the CD you get Maya 7.0 PLE. When you try to install Maya 7.0 PLE it will ask you for a software key. You re then told to go to the website and register before you will get the key yo unlock the software. When you do this you ll find out that you ll have to download the new Maya 8.5 PLE and the software code for this does not work for 7.0. A lot of people on the Maya website have been asking how they get 7.0 PLE to work. Well now I can reveal all. The Software key for Maya 7.0 is 20617691. It also tells you on the Maya website that the software will only run in Windows XP Professional. Wrong!!! I have Maya 8.5 PLE plus Maya 7.0 PLE working in Windows XP Home Edition. You don t even need an expensive Graphics Card. I have it working on my 5 year old ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 graphics card. I hope that this information helps people who are planning on buying this book and people also people who are just looking to get started in 3D animation but are put off by thinking that they need all sorts of fancy software and graphics cards to get the thing going (Of course having a state of the art machine does help). Introducing Maya 8 is still an excellent book and is recommened for those people wanting to delve into the there first 3D animation package. Enjoy!!!!

• Learning Maya 8: Foundation
• The Art of Maya: An Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics
• Learning Autodesk Maya 2008: The Modeling and Animation Handbook
• The Game Artist s Guide to Maya
• The Animator s Survival Kit: A Working Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Computer, Stop-motion, Games and Classical Animators (Applied Arts)