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Character Animation:: Principles and Practice
With the advent of computers, many more people have become exposed
to the magical quality and tools for creating high quality CG character
animation. However, high quality, does not mean, easy to master.
Many top notch animators have spent literally years practicing and
learning their craft. Out of all the fields of computer graphics
and art, animation is probably one of the most difficult.
Advanced Lighting - Light Tracer
3ds max 5 has new Advanced Lighting features such as the Light
Tracer. In this exercise, you’ll use a Skylight and Light
Tracer to add realism to an outdoor scene. This is an intermediate
level tutorial. You should be familiar with standard lights and
shadows in 3ds max before doing this exercise.
A SIMPLE LASER
Instead of building the laser using a geometric model, trying
to map it in different and clever ways, we'll simply use a beam
of light like a real laser. The idea of a laser in the real world
is that light particles/waves leave an emitter in such a tight,
linear beam that it will stay virtually parallel for an extremely
long distance. The ideal laser will never "cone out" the
way 3DS MAX's spotlights do. Even if we squeeze the cone down to
a very tight angle, the spotlight will never realistically represent
a laser beam
Advanced Lighting - Light Tracer
3ds max 5 has new Advanced Lighting features such as the Light
Tracer. In this exercise, you’ll use a Skylight and Light
Tracer to add realism to an outdoor scene. This is an intermediate
level tutorial. You should be familiar with standard lights and
shadows in 3ds max before doing this exercise.
Catepillar Tracks
This is a brief tutorial on making catepillar tracks without using
path deform. I assume medium knowledge of 3dsmax, ie you sould know
how to assign controllers, use trackview and the motion pannel.
As a note this tutorial relies HEAVILY on MAX Script, although is
is not necessary to be familiar with it.
Build your own Purple Alien
This is a 3D character building tutorial created for 3ds max 5
by Zoomorphix Systems. The tutorial outlines the creation of a Purple
Alien character using Editable Poly and MeshSmooth.
3D Station
French language 3ds max tutorials
Antialiasing of Bump Maps Using Brazil
With all the "cool" features of Brazil like DOF and
GI, lets not forget some of the more meat and potatoes advantages
it has as well
Photo realistic texturing with photoshop and max
Even dough this tutorial uses 3d max, I'm sure that people using
other 3d packages would benefit from it since the tutorial is mostly
dedicated to painting textures with photoshop, but I will also supply
with a leaf model in other formats if you want to import it to your
3d package, note that the leaf model already has texture coordinates
so you would simply have to take a screenshot of the uv map or bake
the procedural color in order to follow along in the painting section.
Tips'n'Tricks
Over 80 various tips and tricks when working with 3ds max
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