Gnomonology - INTRODUCTION TO 3DS MAX

[bharris]

Has anyone taken a look at this tutorial? As a novice, how does it look? Or are there better ones out there?

[SandmanNinja]

Hi Brett,

 

I have a number of tutorials, from a variety of publishers.

 

I suppose it depends on what you want to do with 3DS.

There are some free tutorials out there, that covers the interface and basic poly edting.

 

I have 3DS Max Fundamentals from http://www.3dbuzz.com and it walks you through the basic interface and then jumps into reactor-based animation, then goes into image plane modeling and then some advanced camera tricks.

105 hours for US$99 plus shipping.

 

There are a bunch of tutorials for free at http://www.3d-palace.com that introduces you through the interface by modeling really fun pieces: 'mechs, science fiction buildings, hmm... 'mechs... My avatar is the result of 3 one-hour videos geared towards a newbie and at the end, you get a Warhammer 40K Dreadnaught!

 

I have some gnomon tutorials (the 2 on lighting in V-Ray) and those were good.

 

The best series of video tutorials has to be from http://www.cgacademy.com - something like 22 or more DVDs (buy them one at a time, or buy them all) and it walks you through basic interface, workflow, poly editing, organic modeling, particles, rigging, you name it and it has a detailed section on it.

 

Hope this helps.