3ds Max 6 Essentials

Part 1 Basic max principles: interface features; the max production pipeline overview; building with primitives. Part 2 Core modelling workflow: buidling props from concept and design sketches; building the set; poly object modelling; NURMS modelling; patch modelling; advanced modifier modelling; modelling and animating with SpaceWarps. Part 3 The illusion of animation: animating mechanical and organic movement; facial animation with morph targets; dynamic simulation - springs and things; reactor - hard and soft body dynamics; creating an animatic. Part 4 Taking the mystery out of material creation: basic material creation; fake metals that look real; the keys to realistic glass; subsurface scattering-translucency; the ink and paint material; awesome multi-layered material effects; advanced lighting override material; advanced materials development; life through lighting; basic lighting solutions; advanced lighting solutions; photometric lighting; global illumination; volumetric lighting secrets; rendering and editing; basic rendering requirements; better images using render elements; rendering atmospheric effects; building render farms and network rendering.