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Learn the basics plus all the new features of character studio 3! Covers basic biped posing and footstep animation, along with tips on adjusting Physique vertex assignments. Learn to create a crowd scene with flying objects or bipeds, and how to use the new IK tools for freeform walk cycles and animation. Also includes Motion Flow, freeform animation, making a biped's hands or feet link to an object, muscle bulges, and more! CD of tutorial files and samples included.

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Longtime Character Studio instructor Michele Bousquet brings her years of expertise and training experience to this book.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Animation with character studio 3, April 14, 2001

By	Jose A Ortiz "ortizanimationz" (Farmingdale, new York United States) - See all my reviews

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..

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5.0 out of 5 stars Makes the difficult concepts of CS easy to understand, August 22, 2001

By	CAD Guy (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews

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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good start for learning Character Studio, September 18, 2001

By	Patrick D Bunt (WA United States) - See all my reviews

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.