What would be a good book for helping me learn Maya? Maya Fundamentals?

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# 1 09-12-2003 , 09:23 PM

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What would be a good book for helping me learn Maya? Maya Fundamentals?

What book would help me learn about how to do everything (modeling, animating, rendering, etc) in Maya 4.5? I'm thinking about getting Maya 4.5 fundamentals, it looks pretty good. Is it?
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# 2 09-12-2003 , 10:28 PM

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It's a very good book if you're new to maya as it also contains video tutorials on cd.

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Learning Maya 5 Foundations from Alias is also another good book. Well-written and thorough for beginning Maya users.

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# 4 11-12-2003 , 10:47 AM

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yeah fundamentals is a really good start! I recently bought myself the Character Animation book written by a chinese dude.. it kicks ass!

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Correction: Maya Character Animation was written by Korean. user added image

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# 6 14-12-2003 , 10:03 PM

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I learned on Maya 4 Fundamentals, I think the 4.5 Fundamentals is written by Jim Lammers and Lee Gooding as well, they are great teachers, and the CD is basically a replica of the book, extremely helpful.

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# 7 15-12-2003 , 01:43 AM

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Maya 4 Fundamentals is invaluable for getting started. The videos cover all the projects step-by-step....helped me immensely. Alias' foundation book on rendering is another nice one if you want to learn more about setting up shading networks, lighting, and rendering... a bit pricey, though.

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