Product Description
3D Studio Max is a Windows application which provides designers with high-level animation capabilities. This guide gives a visual tour of the program's features and gives designers practical and easy-to-use tips, tricks, and techniques to improve their animation. It shows how to add 3D modelling and animation to Web pages. It features tips and techniques for simulating materials like metals, glass, wood, liquid, skin, animated textures, smoke, fog, clouds, and reflections. Readers are also given step-by-step tips for specific areas of animation, including bouncing balls, object tracking, cartoons, character animation, and morphing. The CD-ROM includes sample scenes and objects, projects from the book, many sample textures, pre-rendered animations, helpful utilities, and imaging tools.
About the Author
David Friedel (Tempe, AZ) is a network software developer for The Coriolis Group. He is an interactive computer graphics expert who has used 3D Studio for more than five years.
Anthony Potts (Phoenix, AZ) is president of Advanced Creative Technologies III, Inc. and author of the bestselling Visual Basic 4 Multimedia Adventure Set.
Anthony Stock (Phoenix, AZ) is an animation expert and production director of Visual Developer Magazine. He is also a contributor to the Ultimate Game Developer's Sourcebook.