3D Studio MAX 3 Professional Animation

by Jones, Angela; Bonney, Sean

• ISBN13: 9780735709454
• ISBN10: 0735709459
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: New Riders Press

Summary

For courses in Graphics Applications, Applications (Director, Authorware, Power Point), 3-D Studio MAX, Animation. 3D Studio MAX 3 Professional Animation is the only book that take you extensively through the 3D Studio MAX 3 animation process, showing you the techniques that professional animators use to create everything from simple animated Particle effects to complex character animation for Web sites, video, film, and other multimedia formats. Written by a group of top-flight 3D animation professionals, this book features the real dealreal-world applications and advanced tutorials: make bipedal, quadra-pedal, and multipedal characters walk; use Cstudio's Biped and Physique; build and animate a realistic human skeleton using MAX Bones IK; create complex scripting with MAXscript to enhance MAX's capabilities; produce muscle-based, multi-layered facial expressions and lip syncs; create deformable objects and fine-tune them with space warps; display and edit trajectories; and animate cameras, lights, and atmosphere.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I Animation Techniques
Animating with Multiple Modifiers	4	(70)
Part II Character Animation
Basic Character and Creature Skeleton Setup	74	(48)
Advanced Character and Creature Setup	122	(38)
Animating a Walk	160	(48)
Facial Animation	208	(56)
Animating with Biped	264	(62)
Animating with Physique	326	(44)
Mesh Deformation	370	(36)
Part III Animating the Environment
Animating Cameras	406	(56)
Animating Lights and Atmospheres	462	(70)
Particle Systems, Space Warps, and Dynamics Simulations	532	(52)
Deforming Objects with Space Warps	584	(24)
Recommended Readings	608	(2)
Index	610