Michele Bousquet Bücher

3ds Max is a leader in 3D animation for game development, design visualization, and visual effects and enables users to outperform the competition when it comes to high-volume visual effects production. From 3D storyboards and digital matte paintings to realistic digital environments, believable characters, and impressive crowds, this all-in-one software is professional and fast! The powerful Biped module in 3ds Max 8, with pre-linked and realistically constrained skeletons and its suite of motion tools, dramatically speeds up the animation process. They start with the basics of Biped, and then move on to footstep animation, freeform animation and the use of crowd behavior simulation tools. Readers will also learn how to use all the new tools of Motion Mixer for mixing motion files, and the Workbench for adjusting biped function curves, and learn specific animation techniques, including how to adjust physique for perfect deformation, fit a biped to any character model, create realistic motions, combine motions on any character, create crowd scenes automatically, and more!

Established authority on 3ds Max - Michele Bousquet - shares her secrets on creative and effective Max tips and tricks.

Need to get results with 3ds max fast? Why take months to learn every button in 3ds max when you can create great visuals with just a few key tools? Learn to create quick yet stunning special effects, and animated characters with the fastest techniques possible. Need convincing grass, trees, water, shadows? You can use the memory-hogging methods that choke your display and take forever to render, or you can get it done bing-bang with this book. When you need an animated character you can spend days fiddling with polygons, or you can use this book to put it together in minutes and get the entire project done in a day. How to Cheat in 3ds max includes a host of time-saving techniques as well as little-known tools that will make you look like an expert in no time flat. This book is for busy professionals who need to get it done right, but also need it done fast. NEW to this edition will be higher-end cheats (for Intermediate users) geared towards greater realism in images, and game-centered cheats.The DVD includes scene files and bitmaps used to illustrate the cheats, also music files, organizational samples, and instructional Camtasia movies of Michele showing some of the trickier techniques.

Vous devez parvenir, dans l'urgence, à réaliser des animations 3D convaincantes? Vous désirez affûter vos compétences avec 3ds Max pour mieux vous concentrer sur la modélisation, l'éclairage, la texture et l'animation? Ce livre va vous combler et faire de vous un expert de 3ds Max en un rien de temps! L'auteur, Michèle Bousquet, qui fait référence dans le domaine de l'animation 3D, partage sa connaissance approfondie de 3ds Max et livre ses petits secrets professionnels dans cet ouvrage pratique, clair et accessible. Concepteurs, animateurs et infographistes 3D y trouveront les techniques et astuces pour travailler vite et bien avec 3ds Max 2009 (ou avec les versions précédentes). Ce livre et le CD d'accompagnement sont une véritable mine d'inspiration artistique, de conseils qui font gagner du temps et de manipulations expliquées étape par étape. Les exemples, de grande qualité graphique, sont tous accompagnés d'un fichier qui permet de s'exercer par soi-même. Vous pourrez ainsi: créer des effets spéciaux impressionnants; animer vos personnages en quelques minutes; adapter des logos en 3D, etc.