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Create natural fire, earth, air and water without plug-ins
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Second Edition
By
Pete Draper, Pete Draper is the director of visual effects at Lightworx, an animation and visual effects facility in Bristol, UK. Pete worked initially
as a fine/graphic artist before moving on to CG and animation in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Description
Get the most realistic effects from 3ds Max without having to spend more on plug-ins!
Boost your effects skill-set with this 3ds Max
workshop. Tutorial lessons give you hands-on experience in creating realistic fire, earth, air and water effects. Updated to demonstrate
production techniques suitable for any version of 3ds Max, this new edition is co-published by Autodesk Media and Entertainment, and
includes new tutorials on entering the Earth's atmosphere, glaciers, lava eruptions and a Badlands landscape.
Inspirational color images
cover every page of the book as the author shares his professional techniques and workflow processes. The companion DVD contains all
of the required tutorial media as well as over 6 hours of video tutorials.
User level: Intermediate and advanced
Audience
Intermediate - advanced users of 3ds Max that are proficient with the application toolet, seeking to gain experience with production techniques
for creating CG enviroments. 3ds Max is reported to be the most-used 3d application.
Contents
Foreword by Ted Boardman of tbdesign
Introduction
Fire
1 Candle
2 Match
3 Gas hob
4 Oil fire
5 Flamethrower
6 Tunnel explosion
7 Fireworks
8 Coals
9 Solar Flare
Water
10 Lemonade
11 Calm seas
12 Stormy seas
13 Underwater
14 Moving surface water
15 Rain
16 Hailstones
17 Snowflakes
18 Lava lamp
19 Glacier
Earth
20 Volcanic terrain
21 Lava
22 Grass and dirt
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Grasses
24 Frozen wastelands
25 Mountain
26 Asteroid
Air
27 Cigarette smoke
28 Tornado
29 Eruption
30 Pyroclastic flow
The next step and further reading
Plug-in solutions
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 408 pages, publication date: APR-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-52019-3
ISBN-10: 0-240-52019-X
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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