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by Dale Holmes (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: New Riders; 2nd Revised edition edition (30 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0735708673
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735708679
  • Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 20.5 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 965,821 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The 3D Studio Max application is big and has great depth, but most of the available books that cover it are either the all-encompassing "bible" type--which are great reference books but often lack in-depth tutorials--or the getting-started type, designed to orient the new user without inducing a bad case of "featuritis overwhelmus."

3D Studio Max 3 Magic nicely fills the need of the intermediate to advanced user. It assumes the reader is already familiar with Max, has been working with it for some time, and is ready to move on to the next level.

Featuring 20 chapters written by nine top 3-D Studio Max artists, Max Magic is designed to be read, used, and worked through, but not necessarily in sequence. Each chapter is an independent tutorial demonstrating a specific technique, and each is well written and lavishly illustrated. Every page is in colour, helping to make the book a pleasure to flip through and each chapter easy to work through.

A good case in point is chapter six, "Lighting Effects: Rim Lighting and Diffuse Glow". The goal of this chapter is to simulate the lighting that falls on a foetus in a womb (or at least what we expect it to look like). An image of the final render is at the head of the c

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3D Studio MAX 3 Effects Magic is structured in as a cookbook for you, just like highly-trained chefs who are in constant need of new ideas for recipes. We know you don't need theory, and you don't need beginner level recipes. You need a cookbook you can use in the kitchen while you're working. No non-sense instructions on very imaginative recipes, that you can then take and either use as is, or use as inspiration for your own creations. This book has 25 can't miss recipes for getting stunning effects from 3D Studio MAX.3, cooked up by some of the best CG chefs in the world.



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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tutorial book, 19 Mar 2002
By Shannon Clouston (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews
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Each tutorial guides you step by step, without the small details (ie: Move cursor here, and push this button, the one that's colored gray above such and such...).

Each chapter can be approached as the starting point. You don't have to start from the beginning of the book and work your way through it.

Also, I found that the elongated copy of this publish was helpful when reading through each tutorial. I could turn to my side, read the steps, then work through it on my PC.

The end of each chapter gives you variations of the applied work, so you can go off and experiment.

A must read if you're wanting to learn from the professionals. Get this book, make yourself some coffee and work through it!

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars what a dam good buy, 2 Jul 2000
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well i saw this book in a shop, had a flic through and bought it, if u want a book thats going to show you how to do matrix style effects this is it . Its well written and easy to follow but you should have a basic understanding of max as you should use the examples and expand on them you use track view and video post a lot and it can be confusing if u dont know ur way round the max interface ......reguards ark from the uk
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5.0 out of 5 stars Looks may be decieving, 22 Aug 2001
When I read up about this book I was thinking that it would be one of the better books to buy. Boy! Was I mistaken.

This book is certainly well worth it. Along with a couple of other books that I purchased I would certainly recommend anyone interested in learning more about 3D studio max.

The tutorials are easy to understand and follow. You are taken step by step to create some of the most amaizing scenes I did not think were possible to create.

Another great feature that awaits you in this book is a packed CDRom with some really great extras as well as a few bonus chapters that are not mentioned until you receive the book.

I must say that although you have the manuals, you certainly will miss out on alot of shortcuts available if you give this book a miss.

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