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What our customer's say!

"So far, so good", I haven't gotten through the entire book yet but I am impressed with it so far. The author talks about techniques in an interesting manner making you want to read more. I have a multitude of Maya books and so far this one is my favorite.

"Excellent technical book!", This book is written for intermediate Maya artists and it begins by covering some basic skills. In addition to lighting and texturing it goes on to cover a lot of valuable techniques. Since textures and lighting require good rendering setups, the author explains raytracing, mental ray, global illumination and HDRI. Those subjects are covered in more detail in other books but the author goes a long way in introducing them. Overall, it's a great way to advance your skills.

"Great Book Beginner or advanced", was very pleased and excited to see such a great new refreshing book on texturing. Great book for a beginner or advance maya user. Great visuals and will touch on many different topics and will show you technigues on creating difficult textures in maya.

"Extremely useful book for the medium-level Maya user", I had certain expectations when I chose this book and I found that it lived up to almost all expectations I had. This book gives you an overview of a large range of Maya's texturing and lighting utility nodes and it explains to the reader all their individual attributes. At the end of each chapter useful tips and tricks are explored in the form of step-by-step tutorials - from lighting to texturing and rendering techniques. One chapter is devoted entirely to Maya's lighs, another to only 2D texturing nodes, a third to 3D texturing nodes, and so on.
It is a good book for people who have already some experience in using Maya and want to broaden their knowledge.
That said the book contains 13 topical chapters plus a 14th chapter filled with "additional techniques". However, the last three chapters (12-14) can only be found as PDF files on the accompanying CD. The printed book itself finishes with chapter 11. The book could also do with an update to bring it in line with the extensive changes to Maya's UI since the release of version 8.5, but if you use your brain a little you can use Maya's online reference to help you locate menus that have been moved or renamed since this book was published.

"Excellent for Professionals", I bought this manual to help me ugrade from Maya 7.0 to Maya 8.5 and it's become my most prized and relied upon resource. Every tutorial I've gone through has worked perfectly (no missing steps or errors so far), Mr. Lanier writes coherently & well, and each new topic is presented in a straightforward and matter-of-fact fashion.

As a professional Video Game Artist, I've reccommended this manual to our enitire company of 300, and will continue to do so to everyone else. In the past, decent documentation on the finer points of Maya has been elusive, but Mr. Lanier has saved us! I will be adding his other manuals to my library.

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"Best I've found.", In depth treatment of subject while still, for the most part, being easy to understand and follow along. Cd is very helpful. Not just that it has the tutorials but because you can go in and see exactly how he created the other images seen in the book.

"Best Maya book I've got", Best Maya book I've got so far. The stuff on shading networks is gold, great visuals, not muddy or overly technical. The book itself had some poorly/roughly cut pages, but I managed to seperate them without having to send it back - probably an early print run issue (got it soon as it was available).. but the book itself is great, highly recommended for any Maya artist, and a must have for ppl leaning towards texturing.

"Great Information", A great exploration of the hypershader and detailed info about creating custom shaders. Gain a great understanding of the principles behind the on screen magic.

"Texuring Lighting for the Advanced", There are few resources that compile years of industry experience into one reference guide. Lee Lanier has done just that with this book.. With his background in Hollywood Special FX and Animation, working on such movies as Shrek, and Antz; his real world experience comes through in this easy to follow reference guide. This book is for those Maya users who wish to push texturing and lighting and who wish to learn specific tricks and technical aspects of the Maya Texturing and Lighting pipeline. Lee takes the time to explain the How and more importantly the Why of the techniques that the professionals use. I recommend this as an essential resource for anyone's reference library who uses Maya professionally, or even as a hobbiest!

"I learned more from this book than I did in school!!", I have a degree in media arts and animation and I studied many books and online tutorials for Maya. It soon became clear that those information sources would give you clues into learning new tools and techniques, but you had to decipher those clues on your own to determine the intention of the author.

Mr. Lanier provides his knowledge in an extremely clear and concise manner that leaves nothing to the imagination. The full color illustrations go above and beyond in clarifying complex concepts and procedures.

The supplemental material also covers the basic theories behind the art of lighting. That is something I didn't learn with my degree and something you may only learn if you are a film student. Animators need to understand the technique behind filmmaking and Mr. Lanier knows this.

I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in improving their skills in Lighting and Texturing. The concepts can easily be applied to other 3D programs.