Purchase : is this book any good ?

[treed]

No I don't have it, but it looks freakin awesome. Dude I'd definetely go buy it! :bounce:




treed

[Xilica]

I'm going to order that book once I sell some stuff to get some cash

that book is a must :beer:

[Signal2Noise]

I'm planning on ordering it.:)

I just ordered these two of which I should be getting this week:

Animation & Visual Effects (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1584502266/701-7005047-2879540)

Harnessing (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1401827551/qid%3D1055262941/701-7005047-2879540)

Can't wait:bounce:

[Pgraphics]

I just ordered it. Should have it in 2 days. I'll give it a quick review next week after I've skimmed through it.

[Signal2Noise]

I finally received the books I mentioned in the above post. I skimmed through both of them and they look pretty good. The "Harnessing" book seems to be more basic than what I was expecting but it's Autodesk and goes with the rest of the set I have.

The "Animation..." book is the one I'm going to work through first. It's recommended for intermediate to advanced users and the projects look very enjoyable. The author last worked on the X-Men 2 movie as a modeller so I'm expecting some good insight from the book. I read through the first couple of chapters and the book seems to be well written and so far I've found no mistakes or typos (which seems to be regular occurance in Charles River Media books). We'll see how the actual tutorials pan out shortly;)

What's impressed me the most about the "Animation..." book is the inclusion of devoted chapters to CS4 and Combustion 2.1(!!):drool: I recommend it.

[BenB]

Originally posted by Signal to Noise
I finally received the books I mentioned in the above post. I skimmed through both of them and they look pretty good. The "Harnessing" book seems to be more basic than what I was expecting but it's Autodesk and goes with the rest of the set I have.


I'm wanting to order that book. I'm new to max, and it looks to be the best book for me that I've found so far.

[Oikman]

I have the book... I'll give a brief overview of it

Lesson 1: The Script (basically about writing a good animation)

Lesson 2: Space Ship Modelling (how to model a spaceship with geometry creation and material creation and assignment)

Lesson 3: Modeling the Lunar Module and Rover (modeling and material assignment)

Lesson 4: modelling and animating an Astronaut (Modellin, mapping coordinates, Skeleton Creation and ajustment, linking the skele with the model, character animation)

Lesson 5: modelinganimating the flight of the spaceship (modeling space, spaceship light animation camera track, creating an assigning materials and effects, final assembly of the scene)

Lesson 6: modeling and animating the landing on the moon

Rendering the scene

There's a lot of additional lessons that help also, for example: textured creation model and human head modeling lightning and electrical discharge modeling a soccer ball
smacks and landscape generators, and then there's useful addons that they talk about

I've gotten into it and it is an amazing book another book I would recommend would be 3ds max 5 fundamentals. Excellent book

I hope that helps

Oikman

[BenB]

Nice, thanks for the information!

[Oikman]

no problem..

[BenB]

I've looked online and can't find much of what is really inside of the Harnessing 3ds max 5. I've checked book stores and noone has it in stock.

Can anyone give me an over view of it? Maybe of what each section goes over, or what the book covers in general?

edit: nevermind, I found this site http://www.cglearn.com/home.html

It has a table of contents of that book in pdf. Anyone interested in this book should check it out. I think I'm going to end up ordering it.

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