Beginner's Guide to Character Creation in Maya

Excellent book, definitely more of the upper mid level range though not for beginners. Really a thorough walkthrough of the entire pipeline from modeling through texturing, rigging, and a little animation

It was better than I thought. It helped me so much in my college class. So much information and it lays it out in the best way.

I have always wanted to learn how to create characters in 3D for all the various art work that I want to do. This seems like a good way to get to know the software and have fun learning the various steps to do all that.

All of the 3DTotal books are incredible, they're they best instructional art books on the market.

Very useful and a very nice approach

While it is very clear on the structure and progression of character creation, this book fall to to the "add some edge loops wherever" and "go ahead and retopologize" problems that I was hoping would be answered through following the instructions. It is hard to get very far into the book without needing to stop and find instruction elsewhere. I understand that you hand should not be held throughout all steps, but being dropped in before a foundation is set will scare away those this book was made for.I found a great number of the instructions helpful, and will continue to use this book as a reference, but be prepared to take breaks from it for more detailed help near the beginning.

Love it excellent.

Very useful