3D Studio MAX Design Guide - Softcover

Potts, Anthony

 
9781883577834: 3D Studio MAX Design Guide

Synopsis

Discover the techniques 3D experts use to create eye-popping projects with this new 3D visualization tool! Whatever your level of experience you'll find ammunition for creating incredible 3D models and animations.
You'll find graphic tutorials you can put to work immediately to create professional animation for realistic video, Web page creation, games, and more.
Includes step-by-step tips for animation, including high realism, character animation, Video Post, volumetrics, and more! Explains how to effectively use materials, including metals, glass, wood, liquid, animated textures, smoke, fog, clouds and reflections. Provides helpful shortcuts, cool tricks, and fast and easy tutorials. Teaches techniques for lighting, including searchlights, neon, shadows, ray tracing, and much more! Features 3D modeling and animation in Web pages, one of the hottest topics in design.

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Synopsis

3D Studio Max is a Windows application which provides designers with high-level animation capabilities. This guide gives a visual tour of the program's features and gives designers practical and easy-to-use tips, tricks, and techniques to improve their animation. It shows how to add 3D modelling and animation to Web pages. It features tips and techniques for simulating materials like metals, glass, wood, liquid, skin, animated textures, smoke, fog, clouds, and reflections. Readers are also given step-by-step tips for specific areas of animation, including bouncing balls, object tracking, cartoons, character animation, and morphing. The CD-ROM includes sample scenes and objects, projects from the book, many sample textures, pre-rendered animations, helpful utilities, and imaging tools.

About the Author

David Friedel (Tempe, AZ) is a network software developer for The Coriolis Group. He is an interactive computer graphics expert who has used 3D Studio for more than five years.

Anthony Potts (Phoenix, AZ) is president of Advanced Creative Technologies III, Inc. and author of the bestselling Visual Basic 4 Multimedia Adventure Set.

Anthony Stock (Phoenix, AZ) is an animation expert and production director of Visual Developer Magazine. He is also a contributor to the Ultimate Game Developer's Sourcebook.

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