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Softimage Design Guide: Everything You Need to Master 3D Modeling and Animation with Microsoft's Softimage
 
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Softimage Design Guide: Everything You Need to Master 3D Modeling and Animation with Microsoft's Softimage [Illustrated] (Paperback)

by Barry Ruff (Author), Gene Bodio (Author)
2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Paperback: 282 pages
  • Publisher: Coriolis Group,U.S.; illustrated edition edition (Dec 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1576101479
  • ISBN-13: 978-1576101476
  • Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 20.4 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,356,056 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Book Description

Hits the ground running, with advanced special-effects techniques, and no wading through tedious theory or graduated tutorials. Offers 10 commercial-quality 3D graphics and animation projects. Includes corporate logos, game modeling, character animation, Web FX, and more. Shows off Softimage's "insider" tools that the pros use. Eliminates hand-waving-each project is discussed and dissected in complete detail. Features full-color pages of key animation projects presented in the book.


About the Author

Gene Bodio (Milford, MA) is co-founder and lead artist at PCA Inc. Gene has an extensive list of credits including: feature work on Johnny Mnemonic, the Stones Voodoo Lounge CD-ROM, environment rendering for "7th Guest", Flipper, Yahtzee, and a host of commercial work. Gene has used Softimage extensively in both his production and gaming work.

Barry Carlton Ruff (Bedford, MA) is an independent graphics developer. Barry has worked in graphics for the past 10 years at a variety of commercial, academic, and government graphics labs and companies.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A basic intro to Softimage, better read the manuals., 19 Jan 1999
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I found the book really basic, with some interesting points and some useful tricks, but the original manuals are really better. The exercices presented are too basic, almost a joke.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A book for intermediates to pros looking for new direction, 14 Sep 1998
By A Customer
This is a good book if you are after a few new FX to include in you work. There are some simple things in there, such as basic NURBS modelling, but over all this book assumes you know what you are doing and teaches you some new tricks. Once learnt these become very useful in general and can be put to good use in bigger and better projects.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars cd rom is incomplete - much is poorly organized - too basic, 7 Aug 1998
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cd rom is incomplete - much is poorly organized - too basic

i believe basic functions like how to save a file were repeated too often and important steps such as a corrept procedure for model swapping (1 example of many) which doesn't leave out the most important step were frustrating.

many of the files referred to on the cd rom weren't where they were supposed to be or weren't there at all.

over all a really hard to work with book comprised of some good ideas and some good elaboration on a few poorly documented softimage features.

very low rating very much a waste of time and i don't feel like i learned much at all.

i feel like i did waste a certain percentage of that money.

i wrote this review so that someone considering the purchase might hopefully notice a low star rating and read a review to help with the purchase decision.

seriously if you are wanting a book to teach you softimage i just don't think this is going to help at all.

i have no idea who ! this book would be ideal for.

my suggestion = digital char. animation by George M. an attractively simple book on a not so simple subject.

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3.0 out of 5 stars ....?
I am rather disappointed... It is as though the authors were in a hurry that they forgot to explain why and how some things work... Read more
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I was really quite disheartened when I got hold of this book, I thought it was going to reveal some of the magic that softimage holds, but it didn't. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars hmm...
Much as I would like to give it a score of 9, but I feel that this book is insufficent in explaning some of the things in there. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars not too bad, but could be a lot better...
well, it's not a bad book. you can find a lot of nice tips, but as they say: this book start where the manuals left you...
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