Need to solve problems quickly to develop creative projects within your time and budget? Want to hone your 3ds Max skills so you can concentrate on your modelling, lighting, texturing, and animation? Then Model, Rig, Animate with 3ds Max is for you! Michele Bousquet shows how to work from the problem to the solution — from the viewpoint of a CG artist who has been commissioned to create a job and is working to a deadline.

3ds Max provides unparallelled character animation functionality, and in Model, Rig, Animate with 3ds Max you will learn how to take advantage of all of these tools. Simple step-by-step tutorials, glorious full-colour examples, and an easy-to-understand approach to tricky concepts will have you creating and animating your own characters within hours!

Author and award-winning animator Michele Bousquet answers all your questions about character modelling, rigging, and animating in 3ds Max — in the process illuminating the techniques used by game developers, broadcast and film companies, industrial designers, and more. As you complete the book's projects and exercises — using the files contained on the companion CD — you'll learn the fundamentals of character modelling, character rigging, creating rigs with custom controls, skinning, character animation, and more.

About the Author:

Michele Bousquet is an award-winning animator, video producer, and author who has been writing about 3ds Max since its first release. She currently lives in New Orleans and works at TurboSquid.