Inside Extreme 3d 2 [Paperback]

Gary David Bouton (Author)

Book Description

Series: Inside | Publication Date: March 1997

This in-depth reference contains all the information users need to successfully move from the 2-D to the 3-D graphics world CD-ROM includes project files, wireframe models, textures, 3-D objects, and the latest demo version of Extreme 3D for Mac and Windows. Covers Through Version 2.0 for Windows and Macintosh.

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Amazon.com Review

You can learn all about Macromedia's Extreme 3D, the modeling and rendering package for Macintosh and Windows, in Gary David Bouton's Inside Extreme 3D. In this book, which is for beginning and intermediate users, Bouton first explains the basics of 3-D modeling, with details on working with views and creating objects. He then goes on to teach you how to render sophisticated scenes with complex objects, material surfaces, animations, lighting, and particle systems. Bouton also shows you how to work with your 2-D illustrations and bitmaps in Extreme 3D. You get a glossary and a hybrid CD-ROM with a trial version of Extreme 3D and sample materials, images, and fonts.

From the Publisher

This in-depth reference contains all the information users need to successfully move from the 2-D to the 3-D graphics world. - Builds upon the documentation to expand the user's knowledge of Extreme 3D

- Discusses advanced topics such as animation, use of 3-D, and high resolution printing of 3D images

- CD-ROM is loaded with example files, models, textures, fonts, an electronic glossary, and other tools for you to start using right away

Product Details

• Paperback: 591 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Pub (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156205662X
• ISBN-13: 978-1562056629
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,473,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Since 1991, Gary David Bouton has authored 25 books covering different topics, but they all revolve around a central theme: how does today's individual express themself artistically? The author has been illustrating professionally for over 30 years, and Mr. Bouton makes a point to share with readers not simply what a graphics application's tools do, but how they can be used to produce whatever is on the reader's mind.

Gary has written the Inside Adobe Photoshop series, several CorelDraw manuals including The Official Guide, books on video editing, 3D modeling, and creating Web content. Most recently, Gary has finished co-authoring Photoshop CS4 QuickSteps, and the Xara Xtreme Official Guide, due out this fall from McGraw-Hill.

In the spare time he doesn't have, Gary enjoys composing music and is an active practitioner of what he teaches through his books. Currently, the author works with video producers creating CGI and other post effects for music videos.

The author and his wife Barbara host TheBoutons.com, home of The Pixel Dust Forum, which supports diverse and lively discussions on everything (but mainly computer graphics). The Boutons also support their books at their website.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Starts at the beginning & leaves you feeling like a pro., December 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Inside Extreme 3d 2 (Paperback)

This book leads you through E3d2 which is out of Macromedia's further development plans. But don't consider E3D2 to be a "dead" tool! E3D is probably the most intuitive 3D modeling package ever. It uses spline curves which are familiar to most 2D graphics users and builds on them to enter the world of 3D. Gary David Bouton writes the tutes in a logically sequential way and supplies a lot of files and resources on the disc to help readers take the ideas presented and develop them into their own ideas. The biggest problem was that the trial version of E3d2 did not always recognise the files on the disc. I complained and had a replacement disc within a week (and that's to Australia!). When I needed extra help I found the author to be a wonderful support via email.