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3D Graphics: Tips, Tricks, & Techniques

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I read through this book and found the explanations to be geared more to the theory of an artist who wants to create an object, render a scene, or animate an object. If you're looking for actual program code, this is not the book you want. If you're an artist looking for explanations of lathe, splines, bending object, and quality differences between flat rendering, Phong rendering etc., take a look into this. There's also a listing of businesses in the back with a brief description about their products and how to contact them. I couldn't get the demo version of Caligari's Truespace 2 to work -- one of the files (or was it a directory?) was burnt incorrectly onto the CD and the installer could not find what it needed.

A right cross of tricks. A left hook of tips. An uppercut of Techniques.

This book was a 15 round heavy-weight fight of 3d info. Bloodied and bruised by them time I turned the last page, I was now armed with the powerfull knowledge that got me several freelance jobs doing TV spots for the local "Murray's 99 cent Extravaganza" They paid me in plastic penny-whistles and napkin rings but it was work.