Whats your favorite Maya book besides the manual?

[AmateurOne]

My favorite is "Maya 4.5 Savvy" because I'm a noob and it has excellent tuts.

My second favorite is "Complete Maya Programming" because it has the only adequate introduction to Maya's dependency-graph structure that I have encountered. Chapter 2 of that book will likely be the only one of immediate interest to a noob. If anybody can recommend something better--deeper, please let me know. I need all the help I can get.

Hint: If you do a search for "book" on the Maya forum here you will get a lot of worth while results.

[X-Tender]

Yeah! I also have the Complete Maya programming book ;) .. it teached me much 'bout MEL .. i think about buy the book from Mark R. Wilkins , MEL Scripting for Maya Animators www.melscripting.com ,..

[wgreenlee1]

Ok guys....I'm a newbie to so that Maya Savvy sounds good.
I hope others chime in here because I'm going monday to get a book and would like a little direction as to which one to get.

[Flash FROG]

I personally like the maya 4 book by danny riddell and andrew s. britt, I have had it for a long time and it really explaines everything really well.

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Maya 4.5 Savvy

[muckywetnoodle]

I got the Learning Maya books with maya and those are really helpful. Darn expensive though if you buy only one or 2 of them.

Also, the books give you a lot of hotkeys and multiple ways of doing things which is nice. Very detailed as well. The foundation book is a nice overview approach that goes beyond the Instant Maya stuff. They use all hand-on tutorials which is how I learn best.

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