Good Video Games and Good Learning or Learning Maya 7

Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning, and Literacy

Author: James Paul Ge

This book discusses a broad range of topics concerning video games, learning and literacy. These include the ways games can marry pleasure, learning and mastery through the sense of ownership, agency and control players enjoy when gaming, as well as controversial issues surrounding games. The book explores relationships between values, identity, content and learning, and focuses on how to understand and explain many young people's differential experiences of learning in gaming and schooling respectively.

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Learning Maya 7: The Modeling and Animation Handbook: Based on the Academy Award-Winning Animated Short The ChubbChubbs! from Sony Pictures Imageworks

Author: Alias Learning Tools

This exceptional, full-color Maya Press title produced by Alias, the software's creators takes a brand-new, creative approach to teaching modeling and animation. Using characters from the Academy Award-winning short film "The ChubbChubbs", it demonstrates the basic workflows and features needed to create models and animations in Maya. Written for experienced users who are already familiar with the Maya interface and basic techniques, it addresses everything from modeling and tessalation to forward and inverse kinematics, and shows you how to achieve realistic motion and subtle character and clothing deformations. The companion DVD includes instructor-led tutorials, scene files, artist interviews, Maya PLE.