Customer Reviews

Animation with character studio 3

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A Waste... First off the Book is actually a low quality pamphlet, with no color samples and faded Xerox lettering throughout its pages.A badly printed picture of a 3D figure on regular 8.5X 11 laminated paper, make up the books' cover..While the book is written in a simple format, the writer assumes too much, in terms of the readers' knowledge of Character Studio...The Writer also isn't very thorough with the samples, leaving out important steps, and filling the book's two hundred plus pages, with a large and blocky text...Even with the lame attempt at raising the Books' pages, the subject of "Physique" (the process of associating the biped, and mesh) is loosely covered on just one page,(actually half a page, considering the font size). To add insult to injury most, if not all, of the exercises that are used on the tutorial CD(as well as the whole Book's Format),are from "Character Studio 2.2" Which has been known to have issues with Character Studio 3,making the Title of this Book, Deceiving To Say the Least....Overall A cheap, and shoddy attempt at making an easy buck..

Animation with Character Studio 3 is the best resource available for learning CS 3. The topics and concepts are explained clearly and the example projects provide hands-on, step-by-step demonstrations of this applications capabilities. This book is a required text for my level II students and should be in the library of anyone wanting to learn the program.

This book does what it sets out to do- to "introduce the fundamentals of character studio and make them so easy to grasp that you will be able to read and understand the character studio manual with ease", as stated in the Introduction. The tutorials in the CS manual are hard to follow, and don't explain what concepts they are trying to teach- the exercizes in this book serve as a good replacement. You will still need to go back to the manual after reading through this book, however.

THE BOOK to begin with Character studio and well understand. Great book, very usefull!

This is the best book written for learning and teaching Character Studio. Unlike the reference manual and tutorials that accompany Character Studio, Michele's book cuts right to the essence of building modeling and animating with Character Studio. The tutorials are well written and very easy to follow. I specified this book for my current class in advance animation last December.

This is one book that walks you through in understanding the features of Character Studio 3. A definte Max book to add to your collection! Wish there are more focus books like these around...

Animation with character studio 3 is the greatest. The exercises really help to develop a clear understanding of character studio as a whole. The thing I liked the best was the attention to detail on adjusting envelopes in order to properly get your mesh to deform. I would recommend this book to anyone that would like to do character animation.

This book is not worth the money! I got better education just reading some online tutorials (try loonygames.com, look for tutorials by Paul Steed), or the manual!.. This is an awful book and the files on the CD sometimes crash.

I dont know why there are so many other reviewers rating it excellent!?

This book stinks. The skil of the writter is extrimly low, he dosent now any thing about animating. and there fore is the book also extrimly bad. if you read any where on the net that this book is great then it's probadly the writter him self who has writen it.