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Title: 3D Studio MAX 3(r) Professional Animation by Angie Jones, Sean Bonney, Brandon Davis, Sean Miller, Shane Olsen ISBN: 0-7357-0945-9 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Worthy Goal, dismal execution
Comment: I must say that I was really excited when I got this book since learning MAX character animation has been a goal for a long time. Imagine my frustration when I started doing the exercises and I could make nothing in the first two chapters behave as described when following the instructions to the letter. There are so many glaring mistakes in the first two chapters I dont even have the patience to hammer through it. While New Riders books have been satsifying in the past, this one is a failure and I wish to express my extreme dissatisfaction to the authors and New Riders for not even bothering to issue an errata list to help people out who are having problems following the examples.
This is not a cheap book, and the extreme technicality of the subject requires accuracy in writing and proofing. I am sure that nobody in the proofing team ever tried these exercises since as written they are impossible to execute.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally something I really needed
Comment: I bought other CG books before and usually got something out of it. But this is my first one that instantly helped me with my problems. Within the first 2 hours of reading I got more hints to traps and good advices than I got from reading whole books and doing dozens of tutorials before. I really recommend this book for all who want to improve their animation skills with 3D Studio MAX.
Rating: 2
Summary: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Comment: Ok, the editor of this book should have really gone through some of the tutorials. It seems a lot of the files that the author copied over still refer to her own drive.
Beware- it is for version 3.0
This book touches on different types of techniques for character animation. It is a little bit advanced. If you are new to 3ds stay away! If you are comfortable with Max, then prepared to be confused with tutorials that don't have many diagrams. There is a lot of reading to do. I am a visual person; I need things drawn out for me.
There is one cool tutorial on max scripting. There aren't very many of those around.
There is a little bit about Character Studio. Not enough for it to be of any value.
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Title: 3D Studio Max 3 Magic (with CD-ROM for Windows) by Jeffrey Abouaf, Neil Blevins, Sean Bonney, Brandon Davis, Sanford Kennedy, Douglas King, Eni Oken, Michael Todd Peterson, Sung-Wook Su, New Riders Development ISBN: 0735708673 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: 3D Studio MAX 3(r) Fundamentals by Michael Todd Peterson, Steve Burke ISBN: 0735700494 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: 3D Studio MAX R3 f/x and design: Filled with Professional Level Effects From Experts in Film and Video by Jon A. Bell, Jon A. Bell, Michael Spaw, Scot Tumlin, Tom Hudson, Johnny Ow, Jon Bell ISBN: 1576104230 Publisher: Coriolis Group Books Pub. Date: 22 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: 3D Studio Max 3.0 Workshop by Duane Loose ISBN: 0789723433 Publisher: Hayden Books Pub. Date: 23 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Modeling a Character in 3DS Max by Paul Steed ISBN: 1556228155 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: 30 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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