3Ds Max Essential Training Video

3ds Max 9 Essential Training

with: Chad Perkins



Covering the fundamentals of rendering, animation, and modeling, instructor Chad Perkins demonstrates how to push the limits of 3ds Max 9 for stunning effects. Chad starts with the application's basics, then goes on to discuss many of the key features of 3ds Max 9, as well as important principles of animation. He teaches users about creating and editing mesh, modifiers, architectural modeling, texture mapping, keyframe animation, rigging, basic kinematics, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.







Table of contents

Introduction

Welcome 1:23 1.2 MB

Using the exercise files 1:05 1.1 MB

1. Getting Started

Overview of the standard 3ds Max workflow 5:45 10.5 MB

Reference materials and observation 2:41 3.5 MB

The importance of your demo reel 1:48 2.3 MB

2. Interface Essentials

Understanding the interface 6:59 12.4 MB

Seeing through viewports 8:06 14.7 MB

Customizing your interface 6:54 10.9 MB

Really complex right-clicking 5:41 8.5 MB

Preferences and customization 5:44 9.1 MB

3. Navigating Max

You gotta get a wheel mouse 6:09 10.8 MB

Highlights of the Navigation tools 11:18 17.3 MB

The Transform Gizmo (yes, "gizmo") 5:13 9.5 MB

Max's coordinate systems 6:02 11.6 MB

Selecting 7:59 14.2 MB

Freezing and hiding 5:38 9.9 MB

4. It's Time to Make Stuff!

Creating basic objects 15:59 29.4 MB

Sub-Object level 7:37 14 MB

Creating with Shapes 10:54 19.8 MB

3D text party time 7:42 14.2 MB

Making a 3D logo with Adobe Illustrator files 4:18 6.7 MB

Creating compound objects 10:08 19.4 MB

Architectural modeling 101 9:17 16.9 MB

Using the Array tool 8:12 13.5 MB

5. Fiddling with the Stuff We Made

Using the three basic transforms 6:53 12.5 MB

Understanding modifiers 15:04 27.4 MB

Edit Mesh basics 18:10 34.3 MB

Box modeling 10:51 19.4 MB

Tricks with edges 5:43 11.3 MB

Using MeshSmooth and TurboSmooth 5:49 10.9 MB

Grouping essentials 6:39 12.1 MB

Cloning essentials 6:32 11.9 MB

6. Making Great Materials

Materials Editor basics 5:41 9.1 MB

Basic material parameters 9:33 18.1 MB

Adding a basic map 5:29 10.3 MB

Bump mapping 5:43 10.6 MB

The importance of Photoshop 1:49 2.6 MB

Specularity 4:37 7.6 MB

Opacity mapping 4:18 7.9 MB

Reflection/refraction 9:58 18.6 MB

Raytrace maps 6:32 11.7 MB

Other types of maps 14:23 26.5 MB

Other types of materials 7:00 10.7 MB

Free good materials! 4:27 8.3 MB

7. Applying Those Great Materials

UVW mapping 8:02 15.2 MB

Multi/Sub-Object materials 7:06 13.1 MB

Unwrap UVW 10:19 19.1 MB

8. The Basic Principles of Animation

Intro to the principles 2:17 1.4 MB

Squash and stretch 2:15 4.5 MB

Exaggeration 1:43 3.4 MB

Anticipation 2:15 4.5 MB

Follow-through 1:34 3.1 MB

Weight 2:36 4 MB

9. Intro to 3ds Max Animation

Intro to keyframe animation 2:50 4.6 MB

Animating in Max 6:46 13 MB

Adjusting pivot points 2:10 3.9 MB

Adjusting keyframes 2:08 3.9 MB

Animate almost anything! 4:04 7.6 MB

Trajectories 4:45 8.4 MB

Introduction to more advanced animation 6:39 12.7 MB

10. An Overview of Rigging

What is rigging? 4:24 8.3 MB

Using bones 4:56 8.5 MB

Parenting and inverse kinematics 5:48 10.9 MB

Animating a werewolf 3:01 5.7 MB

11. Character Studio Overview

Bipeds: Creating, altering, and animating 8:27 16.3 MB

Using motion capture files 3:57 6.5 MB

Linking Mesh to Biped 6:26 10.9 MB

12. The Oft-Overlooked Power of Lights

The difference lights make 5:58 5.3 MB

Types of lights 6:55 13 MB

Three-point lighting 5:51 10.9 MB

Light parameters 11:04 20.4 MB

Shadows 8:13 15.4 MB

13. Camera Basics

Introduction to cameras 3:23 2.8 MB

Creating cameras from View 2:56 5.7 MB

Types of cameras 2:25 4.4 MB

The importance of lens size 4:30 8.4 MB

Depth of field 4:08 7.5 MB

Camera navigation and animation 7:30 14.1 MB

14. The Power of Rendering

Introduction to rendering 2:39 2.4 MB

Default scanline rendering controls 7:01 12 MB

Adjusting the rendering environment 4:27 7.2 MB

Rendering parts of your scene 3:27 6.4 MB

Introducing mental ray 3.5 5:19 9.5 MB

15. Intermediate Max Sampler

Video Post 4:03 6.8 MB

Particles and atmospherics 7:29 14 MB

Reactor 4:45 8.3 MB

Animation controllers 2:41 5.1 MB

Animation curves and the Dope Sheet 4:32 8.4 MB

Active shade 1:57 3.5 MB

Hair, fur, and cloth 3:49 7.1 MB

Global illumination=magic 2:37 4.2 MB

Space warps 3:31 6.2 MB

Render UVW template 2:06 3.9 MB

Conclusion

Goodbye 0:46 0.6 MB