Product Description

"An excellent book for beginners as well as advanced 3ds Max users. A valuable reference that covers everything you′d want to know."
––Andre Surya, Award–winning Digital Artist

A favorite of 3ds Max artists from beginners to pros!

Why is 3ds Max Bible a perennial bestselling favorite? Because whether you′re a beginner looking for a tutorial to get you up to speed your first day or an expert needing a reference to Max′s advanced features, it′s all here. Loaded with advice, professional tips, and more than 150 step–by–step lessons, this is the most comprehensive reference–tutorial on 3ds Max on the market, and the one you′ll turn to again and again.
∗ Organize and blend sequences with the new Animation Layers feature
∗ Explore Sun and Sky, Car Paint, and other new mental ray shaders
∗ Combine and divide objects with ProBoolean and ProCutter
∗ Create more accurate dynamic animations with updated reactor tools
∗ Add greater realism with enhanced and integrated hair and fur tools
∗ Reference objects, materials, and controllers with XRef

Animate a dancing cartoon moose

Isolate mapping surfaces with the Quick Planar map button

Add realistic motion to your model′s hairstyle

What′s on the DVD?
You′ll find before–and–after example files for every tutorial in the book. The DVD also includes:
∗ Models and textures to customize for your own designs
∗ Rendered AVI files of animations used in the tutorials
∗ All the Max files for every tutorial
∗ Adobe tryout versions of After Effects(r), Photoshop(r) CS2, Illustrator(r) CS2, and Premiere Pro

System Requirements: See the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128052 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1248 pages

From the Back Cover
"An excellent book for beginners as well as advanced 3ds Max users. A valuable reference that covers everything you′d want to know."
—Andre Surya, Award–winning Digital Artist

A favorite of 3ds Max artists from beginners to pros!

Why is 3ds Max Bible a perennial bestselling favorite? Because whether you′re a beginner looking for a tutorial to get you up to speed your first day or an expert needing a reference to Max′s advanced features, it′s all here. Loaded with advice, professional tips, and more than 150 step–by–step lessons, this is the most comprehensive reference–tutorial on 3ds Max on the market, and the one you′ll turn to again and again.

• Organize and blend sequences with the new Animation Layers feature
• Explore Sun and Sky, Car Paint, and other new mental ray shaders
• Combine and divide objects with ProBoolean and ProCutter
• Create more accurate dynamic animations with updated reactor tools
• Add greater realism with enhanced and integrated hair and fur tools
• Reference objects, materials, and controllers with XRef

Animate a dancing cartoon moose

Isolate mapping surfaces with the Quick Planar map button

Add realistic motion to your model′s hairstyle

What′s on the DVD?
You′ll find before–and–after example files for every tutorial in the book. The DVD also includes:

• Models and textures to customize for your own designs
• Rendered AVI files of animations used in the tutorials
• All the Max files for every tutorial
• Adobe tryout versions of After Effects®, Photoshop® CS2, Illustrator® CS2, and Premiere Pro

System Requirements: See the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.

About the Author
Kelly Murdock has been authoring computer books for many years now and still gets immense enjoyment from the completed work. His book credits include various 3D, graphics, multimedia, and Web titles, including six previous editions of this book, 3ds Max Bible. Other major accomplishments include Edgeloop Character Modeling for 3D Professionals Only, Maya 6 and 7 Revealed, LightWave 3D 8 Revealed, Poser 6 Revealed, 3D Game Animation For Dummies, gmax Bible, Adobe Atmosphere Bible, Master VISUALLY HTML and XHTML, JavaScript Visual Blueprint, and co–authoring duties on two editions of the Illustrator Bible (for versions 9 and 10) and two editions of the Adobe Creative Suite Bible.
With a background in engineering and computer graphics, Kelly has been all over the 3D industry and still finds it fascinating. He’s used high–level CAD workstations for product design and analysis, completed several large–scale visualization projects, created 3D models for feature films and games, worked as a freelance 3D artist, and even done some 3D programming. Kelly’s been using 3D Studio since version 3 for DOS. Kelly has also branched into training others in 3D technologies and is a frequent speaker at various conferences.
In his spare time, Kelly enjoys the outdoors while rock climbing, mountain biking, or skiing. He works at the design company he co–founded with his brother Chris, Logical Paradox Design.

Customer Reviews

very good
it walks you through 3d quite well, im a medium level of experiance at 3d max and felt that for a complete begginner this may be a little overpowering for them. fine if you had a good mess around and understand a little bit.

overall very good

3dMAXIMUM coverage
Very well laid out. Covers absolutly every element. Perfect for self teaching of the program.

A Maze
This is indeed an overpowering book for the beginner and I found the index less than helpful. The main toolbar is supposed to be displayed by default in 3DS Max. Mine wasn't and this book was of no help at all to me in trying to find out how to display it.

The keyboard shortcuts are not laid out in the book we are simply informed where they can be found and printed out.

Want to find out how to put a bitmap image on a plane as an aid to modeling? You won't find that information, background viewport bitmap, yes. looks an impressive tome but when it came down to some very basic specifics I found it wanting.