Author : Anthony Potts
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781883577834
One of the world's leading animation software, 3D Studio brought high-level, professional animation to the world of DOS. Now, the the new 3D Studio Max brings this power to Windows developers. Leaving all those boring manuals behind, this guide gives designers easy-to-use tips, tricks, and techniques for making great animation and designs. The CD-ROM is packed with samples, projects, and more.
Author : Greg Carbonaro
Publisher : New Riders Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN :
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 : Michele Matossian
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1999
Category : 3D Studio Max (Computer file)
ISBN :
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
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780735709454
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 : Jon Allen Bell
Publisher : Coriolis Group Books
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781566047708
Learn how to produce imagery once seen only on expensive TV programs and films. Presenting effects in step-by-step tutorials, this title includes a wide variety of unusual effects, from optical processing to inverse kinematics. The CD-ROM contains MAX models, scene files, and MAX plug-ins created for the book.
Author : Paul Steed
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0763798134
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 : John P. Chismar
Publisher : New Riders Publishing
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780735710597
Insights and ideas from an award-winning author! Expert Advice. John Chismar provides a glimpse into the way he and his team function, complete with tips and tricks to enhance reader skills. Quality tutorials. Throughout the book, Chismar presents carefully constructed exercises to demonstrate how the animations were constructed and most importantly - why they were developed using that methodology. The quality and clarity of tutorials in 3D Studio Max 3 Media Animation have been highly touted. Expect more of the same in this version! Fills a unique niche. No other book covers media animation with the detail or authority offered by John Chismar and New Riders. @SUMMARY= New Riders offers the most comprehensive coverage of 3ds max functionality of any publisher. No other book covers the start-to-finish process of developing media animations using 3ds max (the program of choice for media animators). And that is precisely what our marketplace wants! This book includes all new animations from Emmy Award Winner John Chismar. John Chismar, Senior 3d Animator at MSNBC, has been working in 3D animation since 1991 and in media animation since 1993. Using 3ds max, Chismar has garnered several awards for his work: 1997 and 1998 Emmy Awards; 3D Design magazine Big Kahuna Awards in 1998, 1999, and 2000; three Broadcast Design Association International Bronze Awards; and a 1995-96 Emmy nomination.
Author : Jon A. Bell
Publisher : Ventana Communications Group
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781566044271
Animation, illusion, camouflage, illumination and simulation--this is the stuff 3D special effects are made of. And with this book, readers learn from a 3D Studio MAX expert--plunging into three-dimensional worlds from outer space to undersea. Users can then springboard into creating their own computer fantasies for video productions, multimedia and educational presentations. Includes online component.
Author : R. Shamms Mortier
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781584500292
3D Studio Max: Building Complex Models focuses on one major area: modeling. The in-depth coverage of this key aspect ensures that new and experienced users can successfully conquer all of Max's modeling tools. All internal modeling options and numerous plug-ins are thoroughly covered using a variety of tutorials, including four very detailed projects that integrate an array of skills, tools, and techniques. Whether you are a new Max user or a seasoned pro, the modeling techniques you learn here will help boost your skills to a new level, and prepare you to think globally about applying these techniques to new projects and other 3D applications.
Author : Duane Loose
Publisher : Que Publishing
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN :
The book teaches skills and techniques in a way that not only provides an understanding of MAX X and its functionality but also how to apply those tools to a normal work environment by using a single, comprehensive project. Each chapter contains a section that provides an explanation of the tools, features and techniques being used, some sample exercises for reinforcement, and some of the artistic insight behind the process. The chapter concludes with the "workshop" section, which walks the reader through a series of step-by-step tutorials that culminate into a final, working project by the end of the book. The tear card, color section, tips, notes and sidebars are filled with expert advice and supplemental information and together with the chapter material provide the reader with an invaluable resource that they can return to time and again.
