"Jason's Super Reviews" presents a Maya studio projects instructional / tutorial book on Dynamics.
what is Maya Dynamics you say? Well, that can be answered in one simple word, "Awesome!" Dynamics in Maya is where all the cool special effects stuff like meteors, volcanoes and EXPLOSIONS are created.
This book starts you off with a simple and small explosion using particles and editing them to do simple stuff like orbit around a larger object, just like an asteroid belt orbits a planet. Later on in the book, you get to more complicated stuff, such as tornadoes, mushroom cloud explosions, flood,s and even a gas station blowing up! How cool is that?! The book also comes with a CD with all the project files, so you can follow along.
I have been super excited to get to read this book and I'm glad it was everything I hoped for. I highly recommend this book to anyone learnin' Maya and wants to get into doing cool effects in movies, animated films and game cinematic.
Palamar, Todd. Maya Studio Projects: Dynamics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010.
Q 183.9 .P355 2010
~Jason Kunz
