Product Description

Video game and feature–film artists have used 3ds Max to create Halo 2, King Kong, Myst V, and more. Now you can harness this popular animation software with the clear, step–by–step instructions in this easy–to–follow guide. This book breaks down the complexities of 3D modeling, texturing, animating, and visual effects. Clear–cut explanations, tutorials, and hands–on projects help build your skills and a special color insert includes real–world examples from talented 3ds Max beginners.

Note: CD–ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27949 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 527 pages

From the Back Cover
Let Your Imagination Run Wild

Video game and feature–film artists have used 3ds Max to create Halo 2, King Kong, Myst V, and more. Now you can harness this popular animation software with the clear, step–by–step instruction in this easy–to–follow guide.

Introducing 3ds Max 9: 3D for Beginners breaks down the complexities of 3D modeling, texturing, animating, and visual effects. You′ll jump right into the pipeline—from preproduction to production to postproduction—with clear–cut explanations, tutorials, and hands–on projects to build your skills. A special color insert includes real–world examples from talented 3ds Max beginners. From immediately creating your first animation to tackling poly modeling, rendering, and particles, you′ll get a solid grounding in 3ds Max 9.

• Build the knowledge you need for game, film, and TV production

• Master modeling—from simple and complex polygon mechanical models to organic character modeling

• Assign textures effects and UV texture mapping

• Create walk cycles and simple character animations with Character Studio

• Explore lighting, rendering, and raytracing concepts

• Render through mental ray and raytracing

• Discover simple rigid body dynamics and Max′s particle systems

Valuable companion CD

The CD includes all the image files, scenes, and support materials needed to create the tutorials in the book, as well as a demo version of 3ds Max.

Create a low–poly model tank

Learn to apply different surfaces to objects

Put cameras to workAbout the Authors

About the Author
Dariush Derakhshani is an award–winning 3D animator, author, and educator. He has worked on movies such as The Fantastic Four and Pan′s Labyrinth, the South Park TV series, and numerous commercials and music videos. He teaches 3D animation and is the author of Introducing Maya 7: 3D for Beginners (Sybex).

Randi L. Munn teaches 3D animation at The Art Institute of California and has worked as a digital artist and technical director for games and movie projects with Gizmo Games, RJB Enterprises, and Sony.

Customer Reviews

Excellent for the beginner
Bought this book to help with learning 3DS max which has quite a steep learning curve. So far I have found it very helpful, and most importantly easy to understand. If your just starting out with Max then you wont go far wrong with this title.

Max 9 for beginners
I bought this book together with the Max 9 bible.I have found it extremely useful and easy to understand. It doesnt pretend to be an in depth user guide to Max 9 but has some interesting projects and some really helpful tutorials. I used this book as an easier, less daunting, teaching tool as opposed to the Max Bible which I now use as a reference.

If you are new to Max and the workings of such 3D pograms then i truly recommend this book

JT

Introducing 3ds Max: 3D for Beginners by Dariush Derakhshani, Randi L. Munn, and Jon McFarland (Paperback - 10 April 2007)
Hello. I did like this book and it is usefull. But what i hate about it is you read a little on the sections and then there is a piece of work already on cd, which is almost complete, which they want you to continue. How do you get to learn if people are doing the things for you and not explaining them clearly?

I want a book that explains each individual step, by step. You can learn by your mistakes that way.

Simple