<p><b>Learn Autodesk Maya from an award-winning insider </b></p><p>Best-selling author, visual effects supervisor, and technical educator Dariush Derakhshani brings you a newly-updated, step-by-step guide to the most popular and complex 3D application on the market, Autodesk Maya. <i>Introducing Autodesk Maya 2015</i> includes straightforward lessons, real-world examples, detailed tutorials, and downloadable project files that get you modeling and animating your own digital models and scenes right away.</p><p>The book starts you with the latest CG concepts and production workflows, and then shows you how to create a solar system to help get you acquainted with the basic tool set in Maya. From there, the books helps you: </p><ul><li>Learn the Maya user interface, including menus and plug-ins </li><li>Build simple animations and 3D images right away </li><li>Explore polygons, modeling, and NEX tools </li><li>Get started with HDRI lighting, rendering, dynamics, simulations, and effects </li></ul>Whether you're new to 3D or migrating from another 3D application, <i>Introducing Autodesk Maya</i> <i>2015</i> will kick-start your creativity and get you up and running with Maya. Author Derakhshani has worked on movies such as <i>The Fantastic Four</i> and <i>Pan's Labyrinth</i>, the South Park TV series, and numerous commercials and music videos.