Disaster has struck Mickey's Hometown! Big Bad Pete has kidnapped the newly elected mayor and taken over the running of the town. Your help is desperately needed to rescue the major and save the town from ruin.

Welcome to The Ultimate 3D World Training Collection: Vol 1. This DVD brings together 30 of the best tutorials published in 3D World between issues 100 and 115, plus four full 3D software packages.On this side of the disc, you can find the full software packages Carrara 6 Pro, Hexagon 2, trueSpace 7.6 and Blender 2.48; supporting tutorials for the software; four tips articles; and a complete project on modelling and animating a production-ready dinosaur character. Flip the disc over and insert the other side in your drive for the remaining tutorials.Tutorials are presented in PDF format, complete with all of the supporting files necessary to complete the walkthrough. Please note that the PDFs appear as originally printed in the magazine. Although some may instruct you to download bonus files from our website, these have already been provided for you on the DVD. The PDFs are screen-resolution: full-sized versions of the screenshots are provided separately.

In Part 1 of this series we'll take a complete look at modeling and unwrapping a hard-surface prop. We'll start by creating a high poly version of this bomb case game asset. Then we'll easily make the low poly model using quick modifier stack shortcuts taken while modeling the high res version. Next, we will discuss the UV unwrapping process and explain the important relationship between Normal maps, UV unwrapping and Smoothing groups.