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Any good books ?

    22-Aug-95 07:14:26
Sb: #183074-Any good books ?
Fm: Nick Russell 100430,2565
To: Ralph F. Frantz 71534,3133
Dear Ralph, I'm afraid I haven't worked through your Flying Pigs tutorial yet. I started on the Glass + Reflections book as it's something I find a bit difficult, and the Animals Book as I couldn't resist trying to build a dragon (my Welsh blood). Yours is the next on my list and I'll certainly mail you with feedback. Whilest I agree with the comments that the 'Inside' books have far superior detail in depth and make very good reference books especially when you have a specific problem, I still really like the 'freindlier' style of the Tips n Tricks which at least take you through all the way from 2d lofter to rendered animation without having to work through to page 500 ( a third into the book, I still didn't feel like I had any sort of overview of the whole system and was starting to despair). The tips give you much needed early encouragement. Nick