Ray Dream Studio is one of the most popular 3D design tools on the market today. Its low price makes it attractive to people just getting started in 3D, and its extensive feature set has made it a regular component of the professional artist's toolbox. The Ray Dream 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is the ideal companion for users in both categories. The book, which covers Ray Dream Designer and Ray Dream Animator, leads the beginning student step by step through creating 3D objects, using shaders to apply materials to them, then setting up and lighting a scene. Additional chapters walk the reader through animating the image for a Web page, video output, or multimedia.The Ray Dream 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide will be especially useful for users upgrading from version 4--the book will follow close on the heels of the release of version 5 and will take special care to point out what's new. Professional artists will also want to keep a copy handy as a quick reference guide. See the Table of Contents here.
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Amazon.com Review
This beginner's guide to Ray Dream Studio 5 for Windows and Macintosh helps you learn the 3-D-modeling package quite quickly. The book takes you through the whole program, step by step, starting with the basic interface and navigational elements such as modeling tools, lights, cameras, rendering, and the perspective window. Next you delve into the 3-D modeling tools, using primitives and understanding and mastering the Free Form Modeler, points and axes, and the Mesh Form Modeler. The authors explain how to put the finishing touches on your models by applying shaders, 3-D paint, deformers, lighting effects, camera effects, and animation actions and behaviors. Finally, they teach you how to render still images and movies. The authors explain each task thoroughly, yet each task is basically independent of others, so you can jump around to various parts of the book as you wish. This is a great tool if you're short on time and want to learn Ray Dream as quickly as possible. An appendix offers keyboard shortcuts. --Kathleen Caster
From Library Journal
Peachpit's "Visual Quickstart Guides" is an excellent series focusing on highly visual software for both Macintosh and Windows. Uses for the software range from 3-D modeling with Ray Dream, to paper-page layout with QuarkXpress, to web design with GoLive and NetObjects. The approach is excellent for both self-learning and classroom work. The editors match great illustrations with total concentration on accomplishing very specific tasks and a minimum of extraneous discussion. My students love this series because the books are much less long-winded than I am.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finally a Dream,
By Sarah Reader (sunny california) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ray Dream Studio 5 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
I lost count how many times I threw the Ray Dream manual out of my office in a fit of rage because it was so poorly written and arse backwards. I then decided to do a little research on the internet and I was so relieved to find I really was not an idiot and that others had the same problem with the manual too.....thus I was directed to two great books. One was the Visual Quick start and the other a Handbook by John Sledd. I picked them both up and thumbed through them both and instantly realised that I would need to go the Quickstart way first.......OH TRUE BLISS......no more fits or rage and tears...this book was great for an absolute beginner in the world of 3d......this then made the transition to John Sledd's handbook painless.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great reference and painkiller for novices.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ray Dream Studio 5 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
When I started using Ray Dream studio, I became quite discouraged with the manuel the software came with. Visual Quickstart helped me to get through the basics of raydream, but it still has left me with some unanswered questions. I do recommend this book to beginners, although the authors are far from becoming engaging writers. If only Kurt Vonnegut was into this stuff. The guide (as they say) is inexpensive, and it can provide the novice with a basic understanding of how Raydream Studio works. I would definitely be lost without it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Covers basics of the program without many useful suggestions,
This review is from: Ray Dream Studio 5 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
While the book does cover the basic elements within the program, it doesn't explain why or when you would want to use the features, nor give good examples of what can be done with each feature. This is a book designed for beginners, and the level is correct. But, beginners more than anyone need tips and examples to get up and running. So, save your money, and do the tutorials that came with Ray Dream. Then, you can get a truly useful book like Ray Dream Handbook by Sledd.
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