#Any good books ?
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Can you or anyone else possibly recommend a good 'teach yourself' 3DS book?
Some are considerably better written than others and I was wondering if ADesk
have put any out themselves.
Thanks for your time, Nick.
Hi Nick,
<< ..3DS Books? >>
Download the following..
File Info for 3DBOOK.TXT
Section: Autodesk 3D Studio Contributor: 71450,2654 Size: 1761
Submitted: 8/11/94 Type: Text Accesses: 1997
Title: A listing of available 3DS-related books.
Keys: 3DS BOOK LIST PUBLICATIONS HELP TUTORIAL
A list of available books on using 3D Studio (r2-r4), updated 8/11/94.
>>Can you or anyone else possibly recommend a good 'teach yourself' 3DS book?<<
NRP's "3D Studio for Beginners" is due out in August. I wrote the book with
Todd Peterson. There is a CD ROM with it that has some cool meshes and textures
on it. I tried to write it with the intent of not just explaining a feature,
but pointing out that feature's most common usage, where and when to apply it,
etc.
Nancy Fulton's "3D Studio Applied" is from Advanstar, and is an excellent
tutorial set for 3D Studio. I learned keyscripting from the r4 supplement to 3D
Studio Applied.
Hope this helps!
Jim
>> …. recommend a good "teach yourself" 3DS book? <<
I DEFINITELY recommend the "3D Studio Tips & Tricks Series" by Michele
Bousquet. Outstanding tutorials!!!
Edward Slonaker @ Electronic Multimedia Imaging Center
Corpus Christi, Texas
Many thanks to all for your help. I'm off book shopping tomorrow (I only hope
UK book stores are up to it). Will keep a lookout for the august release.
Love Nick
Nick,
PMFJI,
if you find you can't aquire some (Dillions have a few) of them I can give you
a UK contact address that tell me they can import them from Digimation direct
at US cost prices, may take a few days though, 🙂
Regards,
Kieron
Thanks for advice. Tried Dillons and managed to find some of the 'Tips and
Tricks' series which ( having now somewhat dented my bank balance), seem to be
excellent. Maybe it's just the amount of whitespace on the page, but they feel
much easier to read than the 'Inside 3DS' books.
With your permission, I'll keep hold of your address, as Dillons only
had a few books on offer and (once I can afford it) I will probably need some
more.
Thanks again for your time, Nick.
Hi Nick,
>>With your permission, I'll keep hold of your address, as Dillons only had a
few books on offer and (once I can afford it) I will probably need some more.<<
OK. Which Dillions did you get the ''Tips and Tricks'' from I had no joy when I
tried, BTW just to see if it might be cheaper how much did one hit you for?
>>but they feel much easier to read than the 'Inside 3DS' books.<<
ah but do they have as much in depth info?
Cheers,
Kieron.
I had some success with the Dillons just off Tottenham court road. They are
hidden on the bottom shelf in a corner and they are around the L22 mark !!.
Waterstones on Charing Cross Road had a couple of books from the series too,
but not many. Dillons can order and post to you, but said it might take from 3
weeks to 3 months !
The '3d studio Special effects' book looks very good,but not for beginners,
and is L47 !!!!!! and you need V4 for some of the excercises, and some extra
Ipas routines to do some of the others. Hope this ramble helps. Nick
Nick,
Just out of curiosity what did you think of the books (Tips and Tricks) in
general? Did you have a chance to do the flying pigs tutorial in the
Shaper/Lofter book? I wrote that a while ago and would like some feedback.
I'd like to do some other writing, when I get the time<g>, so any comment you
could give me would be helpful.
Thanks,
Ralph
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
Yes Nick, the Tips and Tricks series are great for getting used to the
program quickly as you said. And I frequently refer to INSIDE just as I do
the reference manual. Sound like you're on you way.
Good Luck,
Ralph
Nick. I tried to get some books at the local library. I used there micro film
machine and searched for animation. Suprise… There were loads of books 3D
studio as well. It costs about 60p to get the books posted from various
librarys in the country to your library.
There were all sorts of intresting stuff mixed in as well like, human
animation, professional animating, cartooning, running a business etc..
Its a lot cheaper than paying 40 or 50 pounds.
Geoff
I'll give it a go (if you haven't taken them all out already). Cheers, Nick
Good Luck
Geoff