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3D Studio MAX Design Guide: Everything You Need to Master 3D Modeling and Animation with 3D Studio MAX

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Good tutorials
this book
Not very user friendly
Doesn't Fullfill Expectations

3D Studio MAX Design Guide: Everything You Need to Master 3D Modeling and Animation with 3D Studio MAX
Anthony Potts , David H., Jr. Friedel , and Anthony Stock
Manufacturer: Coriolis Group Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1883577837

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Whereas Character Animation with 3D Studio Max zeroes in on creating human and beast animation, 3D Studio Max Design Guide takes a more well-rounded approach to teaching you about this software package. It provides 21 different projects, each of which includes a step-by-step guide to accomplishing the task at hand, whether it be creating an orange, a drill in action, an underwater environment, a monument with dramatic lighting, a mechanical robot, or a 3D action figure. Throughout the process you learn about modeling, textures, surfaces, lighting, lofts, and meshes. This is a great guide to working in 3D, no matter what sort of work you'll be doing. An accompanying CD includes sample scenes, objects, textures, animation, and utilities.

Book Description

Includes 16 pages of full color! Contains tips and techniques for modeling characters, animals, and vehicles. Offers step-by-step tips for animation: bouncing balls, object tracking, high realism, cartoons, character animation, motion tracking, morphing, and more! Gives instruction on effectively using materials: metals, glass, wood, skin, animated textures, smoke, fog, clouds, and reflections. Features 3D modeling and animation in Web pages, one of the hottest topics in design. Teaches techniques for lighting: searchlights, neon, shadows, ray tracing, and simulating stained glass.

Customer Reviews:

Missing cd rom.......2003-12-04

I purchased book on:14-Nov-2003, Listing ID:0922A885308.
I received book on 12-3-03.
The book was suppose to have the cd unopened.
The cd was missing.
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Good tutorials.......2003-06-08

This is a 4 stars book, but is outdated now.

this book.......1999-05-02

this book is alright but the thing that i hated was that it says "go to snap settings" and it took me over 20 minutes to find it. It doesn't tell you where to find stuff. It took me over 2 hours to do some projects because i was exploring to find settings and boxes i had to check. dont buy it.

Not very user friendly.......1997-12-08

Being a new Max user, I found that this book confused me...the instructions it gave were quite vague and sometimes did not work. It leaves out areas of importance which you should know when you create the scenes in the book.

Doesn't Fullfill Expectations.......1997-11-20

I was kinda disappointed with the book. First of all, it's labelled "design guide", but is really just a bunch of tutorials. The introduction says "this book is not a tutorial on learning every button and menu of Max....its a fast-paced, project oriented guide on doing cool stuff with an awesome package". First off, project oriented = tutorials, so you would assume cool stuff making the tutorials-- but some of them don't work! The beginning of each chapter shows you a nice picture of the "completed project", only they show you how to get there 1/2 way! Its like 'here's a picture, do it yourself'. The tutorials also fail to tell you why things happen. They give you steps, like a recipe. Clik that button, set this value, press enter, click here, type 2.1, draw this, click Enter, done, thank you, have a nice day. That's the quality of the tutorials. But then again, its "fast-paced" book, so its assumed you spend time to do whatever steps are missing and fool around with the numbers to understand what they do.

3d Studio Max R3 (Guias Practicas/ Practical Guides)

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3d Studio Max R3 (Guias Practicas/ Practical Guides)
Dario Pescador
Manufacturer: Anaya Multimedia
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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