Mastering Autodesk® Maya® 2011: Autodesk® Official Training Guide

Foreword

Let me start by introducing this book and its author, like so: Mastering Maya, written by a veritable Maya master.

It gives me great pleasure to write this foreword for my friend, industry colleague, and student Eric Keller. (I had the pleasure of having him in my MEL class, which I teach part-time at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, California.)

I have been using Maya since its early days back in 1996, and over the years I have come across a lot of books written about the subject. I will tell you that this book clearly deserves to be at the top of the heap. I highly recommend you read it, learn from it, and use it to excel at Maya. Here's why—in today's animation/visual effects/content creation industry, Maya rules as ...