SAN RAFAEL, Calif., March 9, 2010 – Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced
Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 software – the latest version of its modeling,
animation, rendering and compositing application. A new node-based material
editor, innovative hardware renderer and full-featured compositor are new
features offered in the 2011 release to help accelerate the creation of
compelling imagery and entertainment content.

"Our first priority with 3ds Max 2011 was to make artists more productive
in common everyday workflows," said Stig Gruman, Autodesk vice president of
digital entertainment. "We have re-architected core parts of the software,
introduced a much requested node based material editor streamlining
workflows and added new features, like the painting tools and the
Quicksilver hardware renderer, to help customers meet or beat their
deadlines without compromising either creativity or quality."

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Autodesk 3ds Max, (formerly known as 3D Studio MAX) is a software that models, animates and renders any design to look more realistic. At present, more and more designers are into mastering this software to widen their skills and explore the design possibilities especially nowadays that almost everything is 3D.

To aid those designers who are aiming to master 3D designs, we bring you 40+ Autodesk 3ds Max Tutorials for Beginners and Advance . The list is composed of several techniques that you may need to use in creating 3D graphics with the help of other software like Photoshop, Zbrush and special plugin like V-ray to enhance the result. For advance users, however, this post may be used as a refresher for techniques you may have learned before or you may also find new and innovative tips as shared by the author… Have fun learning!!!

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The idea for the creation of this animation came to me from a Motorola ad in which an apartment transforms into a cell phone. Any attempts to find detailed information about the production of the movie ended at best with a link to a SIDEFX webpage.

The pipeline for this tutorial (Maya (modeling) -> Max (cutting) -> Maya (animating) -> Max (rendering)) may seem a bit strange. This can be accomplished without using 3ds Max, if you do R&D, but for the purposes of this project, we will use everyday tools. There is a nice plugin called Deconstructor, which does what we need for this project, but it was created for use with 3ds Max only. In the process of working with Deconstructor, some problems were discovered. Before starting the cutting process, you need to use a modifier shell, otherwise some parts of the cut geometry will have “inappropriate internal” walls”

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The many steps of this tutorial have been explained in a way suitable for those who have experience in using 3ds Max – even for those who may have had some time away from using Max and have decided to go back to it! The tutorial will guide you step by step through how to cheat a particle fire that behaves like a real one. So if you haven’t started your Max up yet, do so now!

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This tutorial is targeted at those with an intermediate level of modeling and texturing experience and it’s meant to be a “making of”. Not being a step by step tutorial, this will resume itself to presenting the pipeline typically employed at AMC Studio when creating a building or another type of next gen game asset. Even this pipeline is not a fixed one, but depends on the specific requirements of each individual project so this tutorial details an “average” pipeline composed of all the techniques our team used in the past.

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In this tutorial we will learn about Unwrap UVW modifier and pelt mapping. We will not only explore simple mapping like Planar or Cylindrical, but also the more elaborate technique called Pelt Mapping. This technique seamlessly wraps texture around the object.

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Open up lady01.max. We will use composite material type for this purpose as it layers complex materials and maps. It is made up of other maps. For this kind of map use images that contains an alpha channel. For composite map display driver must be OpenGL or Direct3D. The composite map uses opacity to determine that how the different material overlay the base material. We would use opacity map to give our selection different colors.

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