Long before the Hollywood actress brought Tomb Raider heroine to life, 3D modeling Alias' Maya software used to create beautiful Lara; Ms In these pages, gaming-industry veteran Antony Ward uses a combination of informative narrative, hands-on tutorials, and kill the illustrations and screen images to show you how to use Maya to address the most complex element of game creation-developing great characters! As you follow along, Antony uses the development of two diverse characters-a female figure and a fantastic character with outrageous proportions, wings, and devil-like face-to demonstrate the techniques involved in modeling the details, optimizing, texturing, rigging, binding, and animating characters with Maya.