Imagine being able to add a luscious mane of long, flowing hair to your Maya-created action heroine-and then being able to braid it, curl it, and style it to your heat's desire.

Are you ready to take on the challenge of animating realistic and compelling characters using the latest version of Maya, the powerful 3D graphics and modeling software? "Maya® 2008 Character Modeling and Animation: Principles and Practices" shows beginner to intermediate animation students and enthusiasts how to create professional-quality characters, explaining the full character animation process from pre-production to final full body and facial animation.

Work efficiently -- This DVD will teach you how to plan your project wisely. By building an efficient model capable of mimicking human expressions, you can make your whole production – including the texturing and animation stages – go much more smoothly.

This training product is designed for anyone who needs to learn about shading and surfacing, as well as using the Hypershade to work efficiently and easily in Maya. Taking you step by step and explaining how to use the Hypershade and how to create shader networks in terminology anyone can understand, this training product covers many aspects of working on materials and shaders with in-depth lessons that cover both basic principles and fundamentals, as well as production workflows and methods of trouble shooting issues that can appear during an actual production.

3Delight For Maya is our plug-in for Maya users wishing to create high quality work that is sometimes difficult to achieve using Maya's internal renderer. The plug-in was designed to be easy to use for Maya artists as well as provide the necessary power and flexibility for the more demanding production environments.

Maya: Secrets of the Pros is an all-new, full-color Maya book, from the authors of our best-selling Mastering Maya 3 and a team of top-tier Maya veterans--pros who've worked on everything from "Star Wars: Episode One" to "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within." Using detailed case-studies, the authors reveal high-level secrets they've learned through their real-world Maya experience.

Learning Autodesk Maya: Foundation is a full-color book that offers students a hands-on approach for learning how to use Maya, the industry-leading 3D animation and effects software.

Companion website provides new updates and tutorials for version 6! If you are an artist who's new to Alias's Maya, or are moving over to use this powerful, oscar-winning animation and effects software from another 3D package, you will find

Companion website provides new updates and tutorials for version 6! If you are an artist who's new to Alias's Maya, or are moving over to use this powerful, oscar-winning animation and effects software from another 3D package, you will find