Beginning Game Art in 3Ds MAX 8 [Paperback]

Les Pardew (Author), Dan Whittington (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1592009085 | ISBN-13: 978-1592009084 | Publication Date: December 8, 2005 | Edition: 1

Although 3ds Max is highly popular, there is currently a lack of thorough, instructional material specific to game art development. Beginning Game Art in 3ds Max 8 will teach by example, showing how to create art that could be used in a real game and explaining why it needs to be created in a specific way. It will include many step-by-step exercises enabling readers to practice what they are learning along the way. After learning the fundamentals of 3ds Max 8, readers will cover everything from building game objects, worlds, and characters, to rigging characters and animating for games.

Product Details

• Paperback: 353 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (December 8, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592009085
• ISBN-13: 978-1592009084
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,565,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay away until the files are available for download..., January 20, 2006

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Rick Rodriguez (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginning Game Art in 3Ds MAX 8 (Paperback)

The model sheets for Chapters 4, 6 & 7 are missing from the companion CD, rendering the majority of the book impossible to follow. Chapters 3 and 5 also demonstrate some dubious modeling and texturing techniques with enough omissions in the text that a beginner is certain to be lost.

Also, how can game art production be discussed seriously without some reference to baking textures and exporting to Direct X?

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Find another Max 8 book, June 1, 2006

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J. Shears (Fairfax, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Game Art in 3Ds MAX 8 (Paperback)

Avoid this book and spend your time on another if you want to learn Max. There are numerous files required for the tutorials that are missing from the CD, and easily dozens of omission/typos that will have you going in wrong directions if you don't figure things out on your own. I even contacted the publisher re: this and they simply pointed me to their website that has the downloadable color versions of the book's black & white screenshots, but they haven't bothered to make the missing textures and guide images available.

This book was simply not edited nor were the tutorials tested in Max after the authors wrote it. Seriously, don't even buy this used as you will not get your money's worth. LOUSY!!!!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Missing Files, October 13, 2008

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Bjorn G. "homard_lobster" (Norton, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginning Game Art in 3Ds MAX 8 (Paperback)

This book is terrible. It's hard to follow and the majority of the files needed to follow the exercises are missing from the CD. Even after you get the missing files from the publisher's site, the book is difficult to follow. I have some experience with 3DS Max and I could not imagine having a new user attemping to create the P-51 in Chapter 4.