- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne; Pap/Cdr edition (1 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0072228938
- ISBN-13: 978-0072228939
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 738,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Explains how to create compelling 3D graphics and animation, putting readers on the fast-track to careers in film or game design - today's hottest growth industries.
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Learn all the fundamentals of 3-D graphics and animation, including preproduction, modeling, texturing, animating, rigging, lighting, and rendering. This helpful resource provides detailed instruction on a broad range of disciplines and techniques used in the 3-D field. Follow a real-world example using the author’s short, character-based animation step-by-step through production. Learn to animate emotionally rich characters--a hot commodity in today’s marketplace as game and film producers are transitioning to increasingly complex animated characters. This remarkable book links together all the seemingly unrelated skills and techniques required in the exciting world of 3-D animating in a clear and easy-to-follow reference.
- Create your very own character-based CG animation
- Use contemporary techniques to create models that work for both real-time and rendered animation
- Schedule and plan like a producer, and design your animation like a director
- Create realistic, detailed, convincing body animation
- Learn dialog-driven emotional facial animation
- Create custom character controls for flexible character rigging without plug-ins
- Learn preproduction techniques including scriptwriting, art direction, and storyboarding
- Create animated effects with 3ds max 6's new Particle Flow
- Craft camera shots with cinematic lighting and render with Global Illumination and HDRI
- Learn a complete approach toward CG filmmaking with 3ds max 6 as the anchor
Barrett Fox has more than eight years of real-world animation production and seven years of experience teaching and writing about 3-D animation. He has written, produced, animated, and directed dozens of widely variegated 3-D animated projects.
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Coming up with a story idea for a film is the most nebulous, ethereal, and intangible step of the entire process, while simultaneously being the most critical to the film's success and even completion. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Based on an actual film currently in production by the author, this booktakes you step by step through the entire process of the production of itsfirst few scenes, the book is divided nicely into sections coveringconcept, modelling, texturing, rigging, animation, lighting andrendering.
I was initially worried that the early 'concept' chapters would be oflittle interest to me as I really just wanted to get my hands dirty but infact they are some of the best in the book, offering great advice foranyone contemplating a short film of their own.
The provided CD is exceptional and Barrett Fox is clearly a generous man,included is every texture, scene, and audio files used for the first fewscenes of the film, which in my mind make this worth the price of the bookalone, especially useful are the profile images used for modelling thehead and clothes.
I highly recommend this book, and although I am a just a beginner I thinkit would be just as valuable to more advanced users as well.
I was initially worried that the early 'concept' chapters would be oflittle interest to me as I really just wanted to get my hands dirty but infact they are some of the best in the book, offering great advice foranyone contemplating a short film of their own.
The provided CD is exceptional and Barrett Fox is clearly a generous man,included is every texture, scene, and audio files used for the first fewscenes of the film, which in my mind make this worth the price of the bookalone, especially useful are the profile images used for modelling thehead and clothes.
I highly recommend this book, and although I am a just a beginner I thinkit would be just as valuable to more advanced users as well.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Based on an actual film currently in production by the author, this booktakes you step by step through the entire process of the production of itsfirst few scenes, the book is divided nicely into sections coveringconcept, modelling, texturing, rigging, animation, lighting andrendering.
I was initially worried that the early 'concept' chapters would be oflittle interest to me as I really just wanted to get my hands dirty but infact they are some of the best in the book, offering great advice foranyone contemplating a short film of their own.
The provided CD is exceptional and Barrett Fox is clearly a generous man,included is every texture, scene, and audio files used for the first fewscenes of the film, which in my mind make this worth the price of the bookalone, especially useful are the profile images used for modelling thehead and clothes.
I highly recommend this book, and although I am a just a beginner I thinkit would be just as valuable to more advanced users.
I was initially worried that the early 'concept' chapters would be oflittle interest to me as I really just wanted to get my hands dirty but infact they are some of the best in the book, offering great advice foranyone contemplating a short film of their own.
The provided CD is exceptional and Barrett Fox is clearly a generous man,included is every texture, scene, and audio files used for the first fewscenes of the film, which in my mind make this worth the price of the bookalone, especially useful are the profile images used for modelling thehead and clothes.
I highly recommend this book, and although I am a just a beginner I thinkit would be just as valuable to more advanced users.
Format:Paperback
This book helped me through some of my university projects when learning about how to rig and animate etc, its a real thorough book taking literally from concept to completion as the title says. This book was also recommended to the class by our 3d modelling tutor at the time. Don't know what i would have done without this book at that time, might have struggled through the projects. It wasn't easy learning this stuff from scratch, but if anyone is thinking of doing this, then this book is a must its excellent, one of the better purchases i have made, in this area, and maybe one of the most used books on my shelf.
*Wanted to give it a 4.5/5 not a 4/5!
*Wanted to give it a 4.5/5 not a 4/5!
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This book was well worth the money. I found most of the book easy to follow and learnt alot even though iv been using 3ds max and Combustion for over 2 years as a hobbyist. Read more
Published on 19 May 2006 by J. Osborne
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From the beginning this book is written clearly, and is very easy to follow.
It goes through creating an animated short, from beginning to end. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2005 by Mr. Stewart K. Jones
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