| Need to get results with 3ds max fast? Why take months to learn every button in 3ds max when you can create great visuals with just a few key tools? Learn to create quick yet stunning logo treatments, special effects, and animated characters with the fastest techniques possible. Need convincing grass, trees, water, shadows? You can use the memory-hogging methods that choke your display and take forever to render, or you can get it done bing-bang with this book. When you need an animated character you can spend days fiddling with polygons, or you can use this book to put it together in minutes and get the entire project done in a day. How to Cheat in 3ds max includes a host of time-saving techniques as well as little-known tools that will make you look like an expert in no time flat. This book is for busy professionals who need to get it done right, but also need it done fast.
The CD includes scene files and bitmaps used to illustrate the cheats. also potentially Camtasia (video) files showing some of the trickier techniques that are better explained visually than on paper. Music files, organizational samples (i.e. dope sheets) or other files that are referred to in the book.
-Author is well-respected Max authority - she shares her secrets on little-known tools that save a bundle of time
-Concise, step by step, focused, examples with everything on CD so that artists and designers can start toying right away.
-New title in proven How to Cheat series: solution-oriented, quick results.
-No need to learn the entire program to look like a pro - info is quick, task-oriented, with real-life creative solutions.
About the Author
Autodesk Certified Trainer
Member of Boston Post Mortem Game Developers Gathering
WorldFest Remi Award winner 2007
Aurora Award winner 2000
3D Design Big Kahuna Award winner 2000
Michele Bousquet has been using 3ds max since its first release. She has worked as a Senior Technical Writer for Autodesk and has authored more than 20 books on 3ds max.
Michele has also taught 3ds Max, and has contributed to several magazines such as Multi-CAD, Broadcast Engineering, and Desktop.
In 2007, Michele won a WorldFest Remi Award for the TV show Animation Station, an educational series hosted by Michele. In the show, she boarded a virtual satellite to see animation from all around the world and explained how it was done.
These days, Michele thrives on teaching, writing, producing videos, and most of all, animating. |
