Supported Autodesk Products: Autodesk 3ds Max 2012

Whether you’re new to 3D or just brushing up on the basics, this is the fast and thorough grounding you need in 3ds Max. By creating a chest of drawers, a bouncing ball, an action character, and other exercises, you’ll learn the essentials of modeling, animating, texturing, and much more. This four-color Essentials book features real-world tutorials, downloadable before-and-after exercise files, and additional suggested exercises. Readers can download starting and ending files for the exercises and additional learning tutorials so that they can start anywhere in the book and compare their results with the authors’. Learn these Autodesk 3ds Max essentials—and more:

• Primitives, polygons, and primary modeling
• Animating objects, both simple and complex
• The basics of organic and character modeling
• Adding color, glow, texture, and other materials
• Bringing characters to life with Character Studio
• Basic lighting concepts and using 3ds Max lights
• Completing your projects with the right rendering
• Understanding mental ray and HDRI

This book can be used to teach 3ds Max’s core functionality and features and is perfect for short introductory courses. The instructor support material includes PowerPoint slides, test questions, additional exercise suggestions, and syllabi for ATC and higher-education classes. This book can also be used to teach intermediate users and some niche topics. The instructor support material includes PowerPoint slides, test questions, additional exercise suggestions, and syllabi for ATC and higher-education classes. This book can also be used to teach intermediate users and some niche topics.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• Chapter-opening learning objectives
• Step-by-step tutorials
• Four-color screenshots and illustrations
• Essentials and Beyond—summaries and additional suggested exercises
• Downloadable exercise files
• Instructor supplements for classroom environments

WHERE TO BUY

Available at online book retailers. For bulk purchases email specialsales@wiley.com

PRICE

$49.99