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- Game Character Development with Maya
- Game Character Development with Maya
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Why Maya?
- Why I Wrote This Book
- About This Book
- On the Included CD
- Chapter1.Designing Your Character
- What Makes a Successful Character?
- The Three Stages of Concepting
- Research
- Preparation
- Design
- Summary
- Chapter2.Modeling Kila
- Preparation
- Getting Started in Maya
- Building a Placeholder Character
- The Basic Shape for Kila
- The Morgue
- Summary
- Chapter3.Finishing and Refining
- Muscle Line Mapping
- Legs
- Face and Upper Body Detail
- Hands
- Feet
- Summary
- Chapter4.Modeling Details
- Creating Hair
- Modeling the Ear
- Modeling the Eyes
- Developing the Inner Mouth
- Dressing Kila
- Summary
- Chapter5.Model Optimization
- Deciding What to Remove
- Finding the Polygon Count
- Arm Optimization
- Torso Optimization
- Waist and Leg Optimization
- Foot Optimization
- Hair, Face, and Neck Optimization
- Current Count
- Hand Optimization
- Final Check
- Summary
- Chapter6.Deformation Testing
- The Arms and Legs
- The Lower Body
- Face Deformation
- Summary
- Chapter7.Modeling Grae
- The Torso and Limbs
- Creating Grae s Head
- Muscle Line Mapping
- Adding Details
- Modeling the Wings
- Optimization
- Deformation Testing
- Summary
- Chapter8.Texture Preparation
- Mapping Methods
- Dividing a Character
- Mapping UVs: The Checker Map Technique
- Chapter9.Texture Painting
- Image Preparation
- The Base Colors
- Viewing the Texture in Maya
- Lighter Shades and Highlights
- Darker Shades and Shadows
- Final Texture Details
- Working with an Alpha Map
- Bump and Specularity Maps
- Topology Check
- Texture Bit Depth and Page Size
- Summary
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