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3D Studio Max 9 Training DVD
Take your skills to the next level. This 3D Studio Max 9 training DVD is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional.
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For evaluation purposes the links below offer an insight into the quality of these 3D Studio Max 9 tutorials. In order for the demo videos to play QuickTime needs to be installed.Introduction to 3D Studio Max 9
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
1. Getting Started
- Overview of the standard 3ds Max workflow
- Reference materials and observation
- The importance of your demo reel
2. Interface Essentials
- Understanding the interface
- Seeing through viewports
- Customizing your interface
- Really complex right-clicking
- Preferences and customization
3. Navigating Max
- You gotta get a wheel mouse
- Highlights of the Navigation tools
- The Transform Gizmo (yes, "gizmo")
- Max's coordinate systems
- Selecting
- Freezing and hiding
4. It's Time to Make Stuff!
- Creating basic objects
- Sub-Object level
- Creating with Shapes
- 3D text party time
- Making a 3D logo with Adobe Illustrator files
- Creating compound objects
- Architectural modeling 101
- Using the Array tool
5. Fiddling with the Stuff We Made
- Using the three basic transforms
- Understanding modifiers
- Edit Mesh basics
- Box modeling
- Tricks with edges
- Using MeshSmooth and TurboSmooth
- Grouping essentials
- Cloning essentials
6. Making Great Materials
- Materials Editor basics
- Basic material parameters
- Adding a basic map
- Bump mapping
- The importance of Photoshop
- Specularity
- Opacity mapping tutorials
- Reflection/refraction
- Raytrace maps
- Other types of maps
- Other types of materials
- Free good materials!
7. Applying Those Great Materials
- UVW mapping
- Multi/Sub-Object materials
- Unwrap UVW
8. The Basic Principles of Animation
- Intro to the principles
- Squash and stretch
- Exaggeration
- Anticipation
- Follow-through
- Weight
9. Intro to 3D Studio Max Animation
- Intro to keyframe animation
- Animating in Max
- Adjusting pivot points
- Adjusting keyframes
- Animate almost anything!
- Trajectories
- Introduction to more advanced animation
10. An Overview of Rigging
- What is rigging?
- Using bones
- Parenting and inverse kinematics
- Animating a werewolf
11. Character Studio Overview
- Bipeds: Creating, altering, and animating
- Using motion capture files
- Linking Mesh to Biped
12. The Oft-Overlooked Power of Lights
- The difference lights make
- Types of lights
- Three-point lighting
- Light parameters
- Shadows
13. Camera Basics Tutorials
- Introduction to cameras
- Creating cameras from View
- Types of cameras in 3D Studio Max
- The importance of lens size
- Depth of field
- Camera navigation and animation
14. The Power of Rendering
- Introduction to rendering
- Default scanline rendering controls
- Adjusting the rendering environment
- Rendering parts of your scene
- Introducing mental ray 3.5
15. Intermediate Max Sampler
- Video Post
- Particles and atmospherics
- Reactor
- Animation controllers
- Animation curves and the Dope Sheet
- Active shade
- Hair, fur, and cloth
- Global illumination=magic
- Space warps in 3D Studio Max 9
- Render UVW template
Tutorial Conclusion
- Goodbye
3D Studio Max 9 Training Essentials
Title Information.
Covering the fundamentals of rendering, animation, and 3D modeling in 3DS Max, instructor Chad Perkins demonstrates how to push the limits of 3ds Max 9 for stunning effects. Chad starts with the application's basics, then goes on to discuss many of the key features of 3ds Max 9, as well as important principles of animation. He teaches users about creating and editing mesh, modifiers, architectural modeling, texture mapping, keyframe animation, rigging, basic kinematics, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials. Close »
Format : DVD
Price : $149.95 | £74.95 | €95.95
Publisher : lynda.com, Inc.
Duration : 9 hours - 94 lessons
Platform : PC or Mac
Closed Captioning : No
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