3D Books Form-Z
Inside Form Z: Guide to 3d Modeling and Rendering
by: Eden Greig Muir, Cory Clarke, Nam-Ho Park
Publisher: OnWord Press
583 Pages - Pub Date: 01-Jan-2001
ISBN: 1566901820
Now based on Version 3, this practical handbook introduces readers
to basic formZ concepts and serves as both an ideal self-paced training
manual and desktop reference for more experienced users. Having
become acquainted with the software interface, readers will progress
swiftly to hands-on tutorials that will instruct them in modeling,
drafting, and animation using their formòZ software. Coverage
of formZ's high-powered rendering feature, RenderZone, as well as
RadioZity, is also included in this new edition.
FormZ Modeling for Digital Visual Effects and Animation
by: David Rindner
Publisher: Charles River Media
512 Pages - Pub Date: 25-Aug-1999
ISBN: 1886801975
The book uses the first three chapters to discuss preconstruction
considerations such as working from model sketches, using storyboards,
building animatics, and building stand-in models. Building models
in layers and integrating FormZ with other 3D programs is also explored.
It's great to see important topics like this covered--3D modeling
and animation is hard enough without having to reinvent the production
wheel every time you start a project. Specific FormZ modeling techniques,
such as profile lofting, surface trimming and blending, and conformal
modeling, are explained in the next set of chapters. Each chapter
contains a generous number of illustrations, complemented with an
eight-page color plate section in the middle of the book. The latter
half of the book is a set of tutorial projects that utilize previously
covered techniques and introduce some new ones. This is the fun
section, where one builds entire landscapes (terrain modeling),
a sports car (mechanical and contour modeling), and hands and a
face (organic modeling). The accompanying CD-ROM includes the project
files for each chapter in case you're having trouble following along
or just want to tear apart a project without worrying. Overall,
this is a solid book for new users of FormZ. --Mike Caputo
Into 3D With form.Z
by: Lachmi Khemlani
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
304 Pages - Pub Date: 24-Jun-1999
ISBN: 0070349339
Get up to speed on formoZ--the 3D modeling program of choice for
architects and designers--with this first-of-its-kind, task-simplifying
guide. Drawing on her several years of experience teaching formoZ
workshops, author Lachmi Khemlani lets you bypass classroom instruction
and lengthy software manuals, taking you step-by-step through the
building blocks of formoZ. With an easy-to-follow workshop format
that's tailor-made for both engineers and intermediate users, this
all-in-one resource shows you how to create a variety of 2D and
3D objects; transform objects by various means to achieve desired
configurations; derive 3D objects from 2D shapes in a number of
ways; conceptualize dimension and scale, and work at multiple topological
levels; personalize the formoZ work environment by creating customized
colors, layers, reference planes, views, and symbol libraries; achieve
realistic lighting and rendering effects with multiple light types,
radiosity-based rendering, texture mapping, and decals; and much
more. Into 3D With formoZ : includes a detailed appendix that introduces
users to the drafting module, which helps in converting 3D models
to 2D prints. There's also 400 how-to graphics, 32 pages of full-color
illustrations, and a companion CD-ROM packed with full formoZ files
for study and practice, plus a working demo of formoZ, release 3.0.
It all adds up to the clearest, most complete look at formoZ you
can get.
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