Creating Visual Effects in Maya 2014

Chapter 1: Adding Foliage, Fire, and Smoke with Paint Effects

Chapter 2: Growing Short Hair, Long Hair, Grass, and Electric Arcs with Fur and nHair

Chapter 3: Creating Water, Smoke, and Sparks with nParticles

Chapter 4: Generating nParticle Swarms and Bubble Masses with Expressions and MEL Scripting

Chapter 5: Simulating Semi-Rigid and Rigid Debris with Python, PyMEL, and nCloth

Chapter 6: Producing Dust Puffs, Fog, Trailing Smoke, and Fireballs with Rigid and Fluid Dynamics

Chapter 7: Animating Fire, Water, and Damage with Effects, Fluid Effects, Deformers, and Textures

Chapter 8: Building Reference Models and Motion Tracking with Maya and MatchMover

Chapter 9: Combining nCloth, nParticles, and Fluid Effects to Create Complex Destruction

Chapter 10: Preparing, Rendering, and Combining Render Passes