Course bibliography

  • Barrett E. 1995. Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation, MIT, Cambridge.
  • Bradley, Cantrell and Yates, Natalie B. 2012. Modeling the Environment: techniques and tools for the 3D illustration of dynamic landscapes. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ.
  • Buchan, Suzanne. 2013. Pervasive Animation. Routledge, London.
  • Chapman, N. and Chapman, J. 2004. Digital Multimedia. Wiley.
  • Derakhshani, Dariush. 2015. Introducing Autodesk Maya 2016. Sybex, Indianapolis.
  • King, Roger. 2014. 3D Animation for the Raw Beginner: Using Maya. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Lansdown, John and Simon Schofield. 1995. Expressive rendering: a review of nonphotorealistic techniques, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 15 (3): 29-37.
  • Mitchell W.J. 1992. The Reconfigured Eye, MIT, Cambridge.
  • O’Connor, Jennifer. 2010. Mastering mental ray: rendering techniques for 3D and CAD professionals. Wiley, Indianapolis.
  • Pallant, Chris. 2015. Animated Landscapes: history, form and function. Bloomsbury, New York.
  • Rymaszewski, M., Au, W.J., Wallace, M., Winters, C., Ondrejka, C., and Batstone-Cunningham, B. 2007. Second Life: The Official Guide, Wiley, Indianapolis, IN.
  • Tannenbaum, Robert S. 1998. Theoretical Foundations of Multimedia.  Computer Science Press, New York.
  • Wells, Paul. 1998. Understanding Animation. Routledge.
  • Williams, Richard. 2009. The Animator’s Survival Kit. Faber and Faber.
  • Zeman, Nicholas B. 2015. Essential Skills for 3D Modeling, Rendering and Animation. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

 

Other resources:

Autodesk Maya Forum: forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya/ct-p/area-c2

CG Society Maya Forum: forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

3D Artist Online Maya Articles: www.3dartistonline.com/news/tag/maya/

Lynda online tutorials – available through MyEd. Search for Maya 2016 Essential Training