Intermediate - Advanced Level Users.
Includes CD-ROM.
Written by one of Hollywood's leading graphics and animation experts, this book includes an exclusive plug-in created by 3D Studio MAX co-ordinator Tom Hudson, as well as:
- MAX scene files
- Material Editor settings
- Material Libraries
- Texture maps
- Image file lists (IFLs)
- Photoshop ATN batch settings
- Other files contained in the book's tutorial examples
Featured is a 32-page Colour Studio that illustrates project results and designer capabilities as well as various third party plug-ins. The book shows in a step-by-step format how to create advanced effects, such as animation, illusion, camouflage, illumination, and simulation. The book also addresses MAX's compatibility with other products, such as NewTek LightWave 3D, Adobe and Photoshop. You are also provided with techniques for using 3D Studio MAX to create a wide variety of unusual effects, from optical processing to inverse kinematics.
The CD-ROM includes all the scene files and texture maps needed for each of the book's tutorials; 250 megabytes of new textures; models from both the 3D Studio MAX f/x: Creating Hollywood-Style Special Effects and 3D Studio MAX R2.5 f/x and Design books; and bonus special effects scenes.
