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Summary: maya 4.5 savvy
Review: maya 4.5 savvy is just the old blue mastering maya book with a new cover, its the same stupid child and stupid dog from the previous version..very few ground breaking moments...they used to corner the maya instructional book market..but now they need new content..I don't reccomend it to my students.., however there is one beautiful image of a yellow rusted robot that is contriubuted by a third party artist
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Summary: Argh
Review: Ok im only at the end of chapter 5 and everything was going fine, i grasped all the concepts and commands quite easily Untill the building the head. Its such a loose and open tutorial there is no point in reading it and i can say truthfully you would probably do a better job without the tutorial.As the Great Tutorial puts it "Cut out the front" .... O_o......
Rating:
Summary: maya 4.5 savvy
Review: This is the first time I'm going to write an online review. I bought this. This is a good book to start with when you're learning Maya. This is not for beginners of Maya or 3D animation in general. It tackled most of what you will need to start off in the world of 3D animation (in Maya of course). There are gems in this book that you can actually use. for the reviewer that says don't buy this book because it's the same with Mastering Maya 3 What was keeping me from giving it a 5 star is because it didn't cover the other features of Unlimited (i.e. fur, cloth, live). That really disappointed me. But overall, I can live with this book.
Rating: 
Summary: A good book for Maya
Review: This is the first time I'm going to write an online review. I bought this. This is a good book to start with when you're learning Maya. This is not for beginners of Maya or 3D animation in general. It tackled most of what you will need to start off in the world of 3D animation (in Maya of course). There are gems in this book that you can actually use. for the reviewer that says don't buy this book because it's the same with Mastering Maya 3 What was keeping me from giving it a 5 star is because it didn't cover the other features of Unlimited (i.e. fur, cloth, live). That really disappointed me. But overall, I can live with this book.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointed
Review: When I got that book I was really disappointet about its content and design.
I expected a well illustrated book which was supposed to show me some advanced information about Maya's modeling and animation techniques, but I just got some very basic information about different parts of Maya and very poor samples how to use them successfully.
This Book is definitively not useful for advanced Maya users
and also beginners shouldn't find it very helpful.
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