Character Animation Fundamentals in 3ds Max demonstrates the basic principles of character animation that help bring simple 3D characters to life. Starting with an overview of the character rig, author George Maestri provides guidelines for creating strong poses and explains how to animate from pose to pose in an organized fashion. The course also covers locomotion�animating realistic gestures, walks, and runs; explores the basics of facial expressions and dialogue; and culminates with an animated scene built entirely from scratch.

Autodesk� 3ds Max� and Autodesk� 3ds Max� Design software provide powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, and rendering tools that enable artists and designers to focus more energy on creative, rather than technical challenges. The products share core technology, but offer specialized toolsets for game developers, visual effects artists, and motion graphics artists along with other creative professionals working in the media design industry on one hand; and architects, designers, engineers, and visualization specialists on the other.

Class 1 :We start with an overview of the project, the goals of the course and the ideas behind it. Then we get to planning it - analyzing the project, laying out all the steps towards the end result and the thought process behind them.
Class 2 :Dealing with with the primary cut of the big earth pieces and building a system to animate them in Thinking Particles. Good fragmentation practices, setting up useful animation controls and versioning the animation get covered.

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The course covers Autodesk 3ds Max from the ground up, providing a thorough overview of this advanced 3D graphics and modeling package. Author Aaron F. Ross covers the 3ds Max interface and walks through common tasks such as modeling, texturing, rendering, animating, and adding special effects. The course is centered around two real-world projects, a motion graphics project and a special effects project, that provide designers practical examples to use with the lessons.

In this course we will use the Graphite modeling tools to build a football helmet in 3ds Max.
A big challenge when building hard surface models that have curves and contours is adding resolution without introducing unwanted changes in the shape. The Graphite Modeling toolset has a number of tools we can use to solve this problem. In this course we will explore the use of these tools by building a football helmet. We'll be able to quickly create and modify hard surface geometry using tools like Set Flow and Flow Connect that will maintain the curvature of the mesh. Upon completion, you'll have a better understanding of some of the modeling tools in 3ds max and how you can put those tools to use in creating well shaped geometry with clean topology for your own projects.

In this course, we will guide you through the 12 Principles of Animation in 3ds Max.
Why does my character's motion look so unnatural and unappealing? How can my animations captivate an audience? What is missing in my character's movement that will enable it to be more convincing and entertaining? These are a few questions that will be answered throughout this training, all with the help of the 12 fundamental rules of animation. Principle by principle, we'l venture through understanding the meaning behind each question asked above, as well as how each can and should be implemented for success. By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge you need to create magnetic, natural, and memorable character performances.

VRay - a powerful visualization tool that supports the Depth of Field (DOF), Motion Blur (effect of "smearing" in the motion), Displacement (displacement map, with increasing detail of three-dimensional objects). In addition, Vray has its own light source, a system of sun-sky for realistic lighting with natural light, and the physical camera parameters, similar to a real photo and video cameras. System Vray Proxy allows rendering of extremely large volumes of similar objects, consisting of total tens of billions of polygons. The newest update to VRay 2.0 for 3ds Max is now delivers new shader for rendering Fur and Hair and significant GPU enhancements.