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3D Studio Max Tutorials


3d max 5 Training DVD set
6 DVD's
Over 11 hours of training
Introducing the 3d studio max 5 Video Training DVD set from Technical Animations, Inc. With over 11 hours of training and tutorials, this set covers everything you need to know to start using all of 3ds max's tools. Lessons are organized starting with simple concepts, on to advanced. We cover all the main features of 3d studio max, including the interface, modeling, modifiers, materials, maps, lights, cameras, animation, rendering and much more. Each part is talked about in depth with many tutorials included for interaction with the user. This set also explains the many new features of version 5, including the improved transformation gizmo, the new selection sets, layers, lighting systems, new ink n’ paint material, redesigned track view and much more. Whether you are new to 3ds max or have a basic knowledge of the program, this video set is perfect for you. All DVD's are region free.
http://www.techanim.com


Online 3D Studio Max Tutorials


The Art of Pixel Painting in 3D


by: Sebastian Márquez Cladera
This article will attempt to introduce you into the fascinating land of 3D painting, certainly a quite new media in the world of computer art.


Steam Train Tutorial (478k ZIP)

In this tutorial I'll teach you how to do the train mechanism without FK or IK. Instead, this effect is created using the 'Look At' Controller. by Gerardo Garcia


Creating a realistic apple using only procedural textures

In this tutorial, I will explore the process of modeling a 3D character head through the use of subdivision emulation in Maya 3.0 Complete. by Jason Baskin


Creating a Low-Poly Human

This tutorial will introduce some techniques for making a Low Polygon humanoid type character. The type of Character that would be suitable for a computer game. Understanding and Mastering the techniques introduced in this tutorial are important techniques. The art that you make with these tools can bring you fame and fortune. For example, game makers frequently sell millions of copies of a game branded by a low polygon character such as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider.


3D Studio Max Commercial Tutorials


3ds max 4 VTC Training CD
by Adam Beare
List Price: $99.95
CD-ROM - 289 pages (November 13, 2001)
Virtual Training Company; ISBN: 193051946X
A friendly expert takes you smoothly from the basics of the program through every single feature of Max 4


3ds max : Video Training CD
by Tim Kugler
Our Price: $75.00
CD-ROM (January 1, 2001)
Tim Kugler; ISBN: 0970801505

This 3-1/2 hour Interactive Training CD will show you how to build a caveman with Box Modeling, a modern man with Surface Tools, and an alien with NURBS.


3D Studio Max - Introduction Series - Character Studio Basics
Price: $89.95
Director: Jeffrey A. Forsburg
Edition Details:
• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Color, Animated, Full length, Full Screen
• ASIN: 1930590105

Boris Ustaev, one of the top animators with 3D Studio MAX's Character Studio, will guide you through the interface, covering the three main areas of Character Studio's Biped. He begins by explaining Figure Mode, Footstep Mode & Motion Flow Mode. Boris shows the manual setup of footsteps as well as importing a motion capture file and combining two different files to achieve amazing results with little effort.


3D Studio Max - Beyond the Basics Series - Character Studio Advanced Techniques
Price: $89.95
Director: Jeffrey A. Forsburg
Edition Details:
• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Color, Animated, Full length, Full Screen
• ASIN: 1930590040

Creating a 3D character is great, but bringing it to life is what everyone wants to know how to do. Correctly animating all the movements, blending different motions together, adding muscle bulges, and bending joints without stray vertices can be confusing and sometimes frustrating without proper instruction. Boris Ustaev, one of the leading authorities in character animation using Character Studio 2.0 for 3D Studio MAX, makes it look easy and gives you the benefit of his experience.


3D Studio Max 3.0 - Lip Sync - Making Your Characters Talk
Price: $119.95
Director: Jeffrey A. Forsburg
Edition Details:
• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Color, Animated, Full length, Full Screen
• Number of tapes: 2
• ASIN: 1930590180

One of the best Max Character animation tutorials available.


3D Studio Max - Beyond the Basics Series - Special FX
Price: $89.95
Director: Jeffrey A. Forsburg
Edition Details:
• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Color, Animated, Full length, Full Screen
• ASIN: 1930590067

Learning the secrets to great effects is what this video's about. It is hosted and animated by Michael Lee, one of the top Special Effects animators in the film and game industry on 3D Studio MAX. In this video, Michael has built a war scene with dusty burning tanks, jets with after burners and engine flame-ups, machine guns dispensing empty casings while firing, completely created using particles, explosions that leave craters, and many other secrets that make average animations great animations.


Applied-Ideas ON-LINE MAX TRAINING. Over 250 pages of material available for IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD, with MORE each month! Subscription server.


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selection of 6 Max training CD's


3D Studio Max Tutorial Links


Modeling

  • Abstract
  • Advanced Applications of the Surface Modifier
  • Adventures in Lofting
  • AirCraft
  • Audi TT Modeling
  • Barrel Tutorial
  • Bazooka - Video tutorial
  • Body Modeling - Modeling with Meshsmooth
  • Boolean Compound objects
  • Box Modeling the Basic shape of a car
  • Box Modeling
  • Box Modeling Part 2
  • Box Modeling - A witches Hat
  • Box Modeling an Alien
  • Building a Company Logo
  • Build a Purple Alien
  • Bumpy Guitar
  • Car - Honda NSX Race Car
  • Car Modeling
  • car using the polygonal modelling
  • Cave Scene
  • Cave Scene (2)
  • Chair - Video Tutorial
  • Character - Sad Mike
  • Cloning and the Xform Modifier
  • Clothing
  • Create a Pully
  • Creating a Logo similar to the Kinetix ® Logo
  • Creating a Human face in 3dsmax using NURMS
  • Creating a Human face in 3dsmax using NURMS
  • Creating a Lathed NURBS Surface
  • Creating an asteroid
  • Creating Landscapes
  • Creating Underwater Scenes
  • Crystall Ball
  • Dragon Wings
  • Easy Tubes
  • Edit Splines
  • Egg Cell Tutorial for Max 4
  • Extrude
  • Facial Modeling - Spline Modeling Heads
  • Football tutorial
  • glass-crystal
  • Glass Tube
  • Glass with Ice Cubes
  • Gmax Aircraft Tutorial
  • Grow a better Lawn
  • Guide to making a polygonal head in 3DSMAX
  • Hand Tutorial
  • Human Hand
  • Interface - Video tutorial
  • Introductory Series of Tutorials
  • "It's all in the eyes"
  • Leaf Creation using NURMS
  • Lamp of Sultan Modeling Tutorial
  • Landscape
  • Make an Oil Barrel
  • Making an Audi TT
  • Making of BMW Z3
  • Making Creatures with FFD
  • Making Grass
  • MAX NURBS--The Piston Project Piston Project
  • Model a dolphin
  • MODELING A FACE WITH MAX
  • Modeling a Human Body
  • Modeling a P-38 (Gmax)
  • Modeling a Simple Santa
  • Modeling Feet
  • Modeling Joan of Arc by Michel Roger
  • multilofting tutorial
  • NURBS Basics.
  • Nurbs Baseball Bat
  • Nut and Bolt modeling
  • Radial Arrays
  • Rubber Boat
  • SETTING UP REFERENCE IMAGES IN A VIEWPORT
  • Shark
  • Shark Eye
  • Shape Merge
  • Smooth Wavey Abstract
  • Spacing Tool - Max5
  • Spikey abstract
  • Splines - Video Tutorial
  • Spline Cage Tutorial
  • This Old House
  • Tire Modeling
  • Tenticles
  • Tentacles and Chains Using Path Deform
  • Tree Modeling
  • Tree Modeling - Shag Fur
  • Two Sided Egg
  • Using the Spacing Tool
  • Using the Virtual Viewport
  • Wireframe Image
  • Wood Carving

    Animation

  • Acceleration & Deceleration
  • Animation Intro - Video Tutorial
  • Bullet Time - Matrix Effect
  • Advanced IK Setups using 3DSMAX's "New IK"
  • Animated Book Pages
  • Animating a ball rolling along a path
  • Animating with Bones
  • Bouncing Ball Part 1 - Basic Keyframing
  • Bouncing Ball Part 2 - Function Curves
  • Blinking Lights
  • Boom Box Animation
  • Character Animation: Principles and Practice
  • Character Animation
  • Company Logo Animation
  • Creating a WalkThrough of AutoCAD designs.
  • Creating an Animated Sky Background
  • Expressional Eyeballs
  • Expression Controllers Primer
  • Expression Controllers : Laser Tracking
  • Forward kinematics
  • Hiding Objects During Animation
  • IK SetUp
  • Lip Sync - Making Characters Speak
  • LIQUID MOVING IN A GLASS
  • Making an Object follow a path
  • Making objects splat
  • Movement of an Auto
  • Nailing down Feet in Character Studio
  • Nurbs Animation
  • Rolling a ball along a path
  • Setting up a figure with IK legs.
  • SETTING UP A CHARACTER WITH IK SOLVERS
  • Setting Up Slider for Defined Key Poses
  • Space Ship in 2 hours
  • Stormy Waves
  • Walking on a Path
  • Walking the Dog with character studio 3

    Fx & Dynamics

  • A Simple Laser
  • Billowing Smoke
  • Blast Explosion
  • Bubbles
  • Camp Fire
  • Chunky Explosions
  • Cigarette smoke -For 3D Studio MAX 3.x
  • Cigarette Smoke
  • Creating Fire
  • Creating a Shockwave
  • Dragon Fire
  • Engine Glow
  • Explosion using Geometric/Deformable objects
  • Explosion Tutorial
  • Explosions
  • Water, Fire and Smoke Effects Using Particles and Opacity Maps
  • Falling Water
  • Fireball
  • Fire Stream
  • Fountain
  • Lazer Beam
  • Lightning flash
  • Making Fire (for Beginners Max 4)
  • Muzzle Flashes in 3ds Max
  • Rocket Trails
  • Self-propelling Fire Stream
  • Splash
  • Space Explotion
  • Smokin' - Advanced Particles
  • Smokin' - More Particles
  • Smokin' - Basic 3DSMAX Particles
  • Steam
  • star wars style shockwave
  • Tornado

    Textures Materials and Shaders

  • Anisotropic Reflections
  • A Simple Reflective Orb
  • Advanced Water Material
  • Applying Multiple Texture Mappings to a Single Object in 3D Studio Max 2.5
  • Basic Water
  • Blood
  • Brick Wall
  • Ceramics
  • CEL Shader: Chapter 1
  • CEL Shader: Chapter 2
  • Clouds 2
  • Creating realistic water with waves
  • Creating realistic and reusable textures using the COMPOSITE MAP
  • Complex Organic Materials Using Falloff
  • Complex Shaders Using Procedurals
  • Counter Strike maps on 3dsmax
  • Flat Mirror
  • Hull Damage
  • Ink and Paint Shading
  • Map Channel - Tire Texture
  • Multi Sub-Object
  • Multiple Texture Mapping
  • Max's Metal Shader, and Why You Should Never Use It!!
  • Mixing Procedural maps
  • Metals And Reflections
  • PhotoRealistic texturing with Photoshop
  • REALISTIC TEXTURING
  • Sparkling Snow
  • Texturemapping 3D Aircraft
  • Texturing a Shark
  • Texturing Tips
  • This old House
  • Toon Shader Using Falloff Maps
  • Translucency and Sub-Surface Scattering
  • Wet Looking Materials

    Lighting and Rendering and Compositing

  • Cell Shading a Cartoon
  • Compositing a 3D object into 2D scene
  • Faking Global Illumination
  • First Render
  • Half Wire Render
  • Light of a Flashlight
  • Lighting - Video Tutorial
  • Lighting: From Film set to 3D
  • Smoky Lights
  • Compositing: Behind the scenes on Moa
  • Compositing: Pyrotechics
  • Compositing: Giving depth to stock footage
  • Compositing: Camera matching
  • Help for Lighting
  • Projecting An Image
  • Projector Lights, Gobos for a Headlight and a Forest Canopy
  • Random Light Sequence
  • Refractive Eggs
  • Rendering - Video Tutorial
  • Renderosity Lighting - Max 5
  • S I M U L A T I N G R A D I O S I T Y
  • Sunlight Animation - max5
  • Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
  • Video Post Setup
  • Volumetrics: Combustion

    Plug Ins and Other Software

  • Antialiasing of Bump Maps Using Brazil
  • Brazil 0.2.21
  • Character Studio Tips and Tricks
  • ClothReyes
  • Creating a glade using Grass-O-Matic Plugin.
  • Creating Clouds with Combustion
  • Global Illumination using Final Render
  • How to import AutoCAD files into 3D Studio
  • Importing Adobe Illustrator files
  • Lip Sync - Making Characters Speak
  • SkyLight With Brazil 0.1.3
  • Undersampling GI in Brazil
  • Using Clothreyes with Max 3dS to make a shirt on Poser figure

    Max Scripting

  • Creating a Simple Previewer
  • The Claw (expressions)
  • Link Object to a Vertex

    Misc

  • Adding Sound
  • Basic Buttons
  • Camera Matching and Video Tracking
  • Concepts
  • First Look
  • Max Tutorials: Lots of em!
  • Tips and Tricks (83 of them)

    Non-English

    3D-Box
    Russian Language tutorials


    3D Station
    French language 3ds max tutorials


    3dsmax-dgdt.fr.st
    French - Basic tutorials to start with 3dsmax


    3dvf.com
    Good selection of Max tutorials in French.


    Tutorials 3D Studio Max de 3D-City
    Lots of Max tutorials en fracais.


    3dmaxer.dk
    Danish site with 140+ tutorials


    3d-editing.tk
    German 3dsmax Modelling Tutorial Site with a help Forum



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