This easy-to-understand reference guides readers through comprehensible lessons that build their special effects skills for moviemaking. Polevoi discusses how to use affordable PCs to create the kind of animations and special effects that traditionally required costly graphics workstations and super computers. The CD-ROM contains all of the significant Max and image files used for demonstration in the book, plus third-party and custom MAX plug-ins.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Illustrated in color throughout, this comprehensive text not only looks at the technical and theoretical aspects of becoming skilled at using the light tools available in 3D software, but also provides invaluable tutorials so you can explore these techniques in-depth. Lighting is a core CG skill that makes or breaks a 3D environment. Providing all you need to master this vital aspect of CG, this comprehensive guide looks at the key concepts that can be applied in any 3D package. Every ounce of theory is backed up with practical tutorials, using the free demo version of 3ds max supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM. The tutorials deal with the fundamentals of lighting and as such are easily transferable to any other major 3D software package. The free CD also includes all the files needed to complete the tutorials step-by-step, as well as demo versions of Dark Tree Textures, Deep Paint 3D and Cinelook, acclaimed applications that every lighting artist should be aware of. If you are new to CG lighting, are thinking of specializing in this area, or want to brush up on your existing lighting skills, then this book will provide you with a one-stop master class so you too can achieve professional looking results.
3D Studio MAX 3 Effects Magic is structured in as a cookbook for you, just like highly-trained chefs who are in constant need of new ideas for recipes. We know you don't need theory, and you don't need beginner level recipes. You need a cookbook you can use in the kitchen while you're working. No non-sense instructions on very imaginative recipes, that you can then take and either use as is, or use as inspiration for your own creations. This book has 25 can't miss recipes for getting stunning effects from 3D Studio MAX.3, cooked up by some of the best CG chefs in the world.
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