Author: Michele Matossian Publisher: ISBN: Category : 3D Studio Max (Computer file) Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
3D Studio Max is the primary tool of professional 3D graphic artists and animators working in Windows 95 and Windows NT. Matossian, an award-winning artist, writer, and teacher of 3D graphics, offers concise, step-by-step instructions for the basics of modeling, animating, and rendering.
Author: Angie Jones Publisher: New Riders Publishing ISBN: 9780735709454 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 692
Book Description
3D Studio MAX 3 Professional Animation is the only book that take you extensively through the 3D Studio MAX 3 animation process, showing you the techniques that professional animators use to create everything from simple animated particle effects to complex character animation for Web sites, video, film, and other multimedia formats. Written by a group of top-flight 3D animation professionals, this book features the real deal--real-world applications and advanced tutorials: make bipedal, quadra-pedal, and multipedal characters walk; use Cstudio's Biped and Physique; build and animate a realistic human skeleton using MAX Bones IK; create complex scripting with MAXscript to enhance MAX's capabilities; produce muscle-based, multi-layered facial expressions and lip syncs; create deformable objects and fine-tune them with space warps; display and edit trajectories; and animate cameras, lights, and atmosphere.
Author: Chris Murray Publisher: Sybex ISBN: 9780782125610 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 794
Book Description
Written by a team of highly qualified Kinetix-certified training specialists, this book is filled with proven, practical examples and exercises that teach novices and experienced users how to make MAX perform amazing animations and special effects, as used in the entertainment industry. Includes CD.
Author: Paul Steed Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers ISBN: 0763798134 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 585
Book Description
In this update to his best-selling character modeling book, professional modeler and animator Paul Steed shares a number of tips, tricks, and techniques that have made him one of the industry’s most recognized 3D artists. Modeling a Character in 3ds max, Second Edition provides readers a professional-level skill set as it chronicles the creation of a single low-poly real-time character from concept to texture mapping, and gives insight into the process of creating a high-resolution character. Learn how to model with primitives; use extrusions and Booleans; mirror and reuse models; optimize the mesh; create and apply textures; loft shapes.
Author: Jon A. Bell Publisher: ISBN: 9781576104231 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 516
Book Description
The author's movie graphics and animation credits include "Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Honey I Blew Up the Kids, " and "Exorcist III: Legion." He brings insider's knowledge to this book/CD set, showing in a step-by-step format how to create advanced special effects. The CD includes all of the MAX scene files, Material Editor settings, Material Libraries, image file lists (IFLs), and more.
Author: David J. Kalwick Publisher: Sams Publishing ISBN: 9780672318641 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 676
Book Description
3D Studio MAX is a professional-level 3D modeling and animation program. This book is covers the details of each feature in one hour so that at the end of 24 hours of study, the reader should have completed an animated short using upwards of 30 features within the program. The CD includes all the graphics, exercise, tutorials, models, and MAX scripts.
Author: Greg Carbonaro Publisher: New Riders Publishing ISBN: Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 442
Book Description
Experienced users gain knowledge works about 3D Graphics Studio MAX 2 from this comprehensive special effects resource. This book gets right to the point by providing the basic "recipes" for creating stunning effects. The CD-ROM contains sample models and textures to help build the effects and finished sample effects so readers can see the final result.
Author: Duane Loose Publisher: Que Publishing ISBN: 9780789723437 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 516
Book Description
This book's subtitle is "beginning with the end in mind", and it offers the beginning 3D Studio Max user basic design principles, as well as techniques for getting ideas out of the brain onto the computer screen. Chapters include information on: Backgrounds, Set design and modeling, Props and secondary scene elements, Camera set-up and movement, Lighting, Creating 3D depth, Texturing & reflection, Specific material development, Dirt, wear and tear, Smoke, water and other special effects, Character design & animation, Video post-production, Making a demo reel, and Getting a job as a CGI artist/animator. The CD includes source files for the exercises, plug-ins and a gallery of high-end 3D Studio work.
Author: Pete Draper Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1136144935 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
Get the most realistic effects from 3ds Max without having to spend more on plug-ins! Boost your effects skill-set with this 3ds Max workshop. Tutorial lessons give you hands-on experience in creating realistic fire, earth, air and water effects. Updated to demonstrate production techniques suitable for any version of 3ds Max, this new edition is co-published by Autodesk Media and Entertainment, and includes new tutorials on entering the Earth's atmosphere, glaciers, lava eruptions and a Badlands landscape. Inspirational color images cover every page of the book as the author shares his professional techniques and workflow processes. The companion DVD contains all of the required tutorial media as well as over 6 hours of video tutorials. User level: Intermediate and advanced