3ds max Mentor: Getting Started in 3ds max

3ds max Mentor: Getting Started in 3ds max, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.1, with 51 lectures, based on 10 reviews, and has 114 subscribers.

You will learn about Work in 3D space Create basic animation Create basic 3D models Work with materials and textures Basic Lighting and render setups including Image based Lighting This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginners It is particularly useful for Beginners.

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Summary

Title: 3ds max Mentor: Getting Started in 3ds max

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.1

Number of Lectures: 51

Number of Published Lectures: 51

Number of Curriculum Items: 51

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 51

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Work in 3D space
Create basic animation
Create basic 3D models
Work with materials and textures
Basic Lighting and render setups including Image based Lighting

Who Should Attend

Beginners

Target Audiences

Beginners

The overall goal of the course is to get you confidently working in 3ds max to create some portfolio pieces that demonstrate your creativity and skills in the software.

Aimed at those with little to no experience with 3ds max who are looking for a 3D coach to provide a learning path that navigates them through the wealth of training material. providing you someone to answer your direct questions and help to avoid a traumatizing learning curve. It’s a great course for those taking a college class involving 3ds max as it will get you working confidently in 3D space so that you can create 3D rendered scenes and animation. It is also a useful for instructors that provide instruction to beginners in that it identifies some of the best free 3ds max related resources on the web and provides creative assignment ideas.The course will cover basic 3D modeling, Materials, Lighting, & Animation in 3ds max.

The course is organized in a way so that you can create portfolio items along the way as you are learning the software. Videos will introduce you to several tools and techniques and at different points there will be exercises for you to do to practice what’s been demonstrated.

This course is not a series of tutorials and every little facet of 3ds max will not be explained.

However, the course is designed so that it invites you to come up with questions about how to do something or why something is occurring. As your mentor I can connect you to answers to the questions or in some cases ease your frustrations you experience as you go along. In that way you will be much more prepared to freely create from your own imagination or be able to deliver on the demands from a client.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Course Introduction

Lecture 3: Notetaking

Lecture 4: Course Google+ community

Chapter 2: Working in 3D space

Lecture 1: Essential Skills Movies: 1.UI & Viewports 2. Create Objects

Lecture 2: Scale Tool

Lecture 3: Tips on Viewport and Transform Controls

Lecture 4: Avoiding Scaling Related Issues

Lecture 5: Cloning

Lecture 6: Linking objects and Using the Local coordinate system

Lecture 7: Cinematography

Lecture 8: Creating a viewport image snapshot

Lecture 9: Working in 3D space ->3rd party resources

Chapter 3: Exercises ->Working in 3D space

Lecture 1: Primitive Sculpture

Lecture 2: Primitive Table and Chairs

Lecture 3: The Stack

Chapter 4: Shape Modeling

Lecture 1: Quick Intro to Rendering

Lecture 2: Renderable Shapes

Lecture 3: Extruding Shapes

Lecture 4: Importing Shapes from Photoshop and Illustrator

Lecture 5: Tracing Shapes using Reference

Lecture 6: Sweep and Bevel Profile Modifier Introduction

Lecture 7: Sweep Modifier Applications

Lecture 8: Shape Modeling -> 3rd party resources

Chapter 5: Exercises: -> Shape Modeling

Lecture 1: WordPlay: a 3D Text Layout Exercise

Lecture 2: 3D Mandala Shape Exercise

Lecture 3: Art Gallery Shape Exercise

Lecture 4: Logo Modeling Exercise

Chapter 6: Animation

Lecture 1: Animating Transforms

Lecture 2: Custom Toolbar Creation

Lecture 3: Creating Animation Preview files

Lecture 4: Adding a Sound Track

Lecture 5: Animation -> 3rd party resources

Chapter 7: Exercises -> Animation

Lecture 1: Animated Bounce exercise

Lecture 2: Logo Animation Exercise

Lecture 3: Animated Beat Exercise

Chapter 8: Shading & Lighting

Lecture 1: Clay Render Setup

Lecture 2: Ambient Occlusion Rendering part One

Lecture 3: Ambient Occlusion Rendering part Two

Lecture 4: Image Based Lighting & HDRI's

Lecture 5: Backplates and the Mental ray Matte material

Lecture 6: UV unwrapping

Lecture 7: Shading & Lighting 3rd party resources

Chapter 9: Exercises -> Shading & Lighting

Lecture 1: Clay Rendering Exercise

Lecture 2: Lighting & Rendering Challenge

Chapter 10: Modeling

Lecture 1: Intro to Box Modeling

Lecture 2: Fixing Geometry: Flipped Normals

Lecture 3: Fixing Geometry: Avoiding Overlapping Surfaces

Lecture 4: Fixing Geometry: Resolving Topology for Better Turbosmoothed Surfaces

Lecture 5: Rendering and Presentation

Chapter 11: Course Conclusion

Lecture 1: Conclusion

Instructors

Randall Rockafellow
3D Artist

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