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Product Description: A true production studio for the desktop, 3D Studio software is a comprehensive environment for creating professional-quality animations and high-resolution still images. This book covers all the tools you'll need to create critters and characters, including tips on professional character animation...read more

Product Description: Here is the complete guide to impressive 3-D design and presentations packed with expert advice, tips, and performance tricks. Shows how to integrate AutoDesk's popular animation and drawing programs and provides illustrated tutorials designed to help all users.

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Product Description: Learn how to use Character Studio R2 from beginning to end. Covers basic biped setup, footstep and freeform animation, Physique adjustment, motion flow, linking the biped to an object, and quadruped animation. CD included.

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Product Description: 3D Studio software is a comprehensive environment for creating professional-quality aminations and high-resolution still images. Virtually anything you and your client can envision can be modeled and photorealistically rendered.

Model, Rig, Animate! with 3ds max 5 uses easy-to-follow tutorials and illustrations to show you how to model a low-polygon character, create a rig (with no plug-ins!), then animate the character. It focuses on the tools you need to get a result, so you can learn quickly and put your knowledge into practice right away with your own characters and projects. In the first chapter, you'll start from scratch with a box, and model a fully animatable body including fingers, shoes, and clothing. Then you'll model a head, face, and hair. You can use these tools to create any character with 3ds max 5. Chapter 2 covers rigging, the process of setting up controls for the character. You'll create a simple yet complete rig from start to finish with bones, IK chains, custom attributes, and parameter wiring. You'll rig the character so it can perform standard actions like raising its arm or making a fist with just a few mouse clicks. You'll also learn a few simple scripting techniques for customizing the rig. You can apply the information in this extensive chapter to any character rig. The entire rig uses just 3ds max tools, without relying on Character Studio or other plug-ins. Chapter 3 covers the use of the Skin modifier, showing you how to get smooth deformation with envelopes and vertex weights. You'll learn how to adjust tricky areas like hips and shoulders, and how to eliminate pinching at elbows and knees with angle deformers. In Chapter 4, you'll animate the character using tried-and-true animation principles. Using your rig, you'll make the character walk and perform other classic actions. You'll also learn how to set up and use morph targets for facial animation, plus a simple technique for controlling a character's eyes. Each chapter uses numerous tutorials and pictures to take you through the process step by step. New concepts are explained in clear, easy-to-understand language, so you understand what you're doing and why you're doing it. By the end of this book, you'll be able to model, rig, and animate characters of your own design with 3ds max 5. Note: The tutorials in this book do not use or require the Character Studio plug-in for 3ds max. Note: This book has a coil binding. For the paperback version, see ISBN 0970683065.

Product Description: This book uses easy-to-follow tutorials and color illustrations to show you how to model a low-polygon character, create a rig (no plug-ins required!), then animate the character, including facial expressions. It focuses on the tools you need to get a result, so you can learn quickly and put your knowledge into practice right away with your own characters and projects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides instructions on modeling a low-polygon character, creating a rig, and animating the character.

Product Description: 3D Studio software is a comprehensive environment for creating professional-quality aminations and high-resolution still images. Virtually anything you and your client can envision can be modeled and photorealistically rendered.

Product Description: 3D Studio software is a comprehensive environment for creating professional-quality aminations and high-resolution still images. Virtually anything you and your client can envision can be modeled and photorealistically rendered...read more