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GAIN A SOLID UNDERSTANDING of core features in 3ds Max

Software used

3ds Max 2014, Photoshop CS6

What you will learn

This in-depth 3ds Max 2014 tutorial is designed to help you get a solid understanding of the core features found in 3ds Max, and help you to ease your transition into this very powerful program. 

During the course of these lessons, you'll have a chance to learn about different aspects of 3ds Max from several of our tutors here at Digital-Tutors. 

Digital-Tutors is the world's largest resource for Autodesk training, and over the years, we've had the honor and the privilege of teaching some of the top artists and studios all around the world. And for the next several hours, we'll be giving you the most structured, well-rounded, and easiest to follow 3ds Max training that you'll be able to find anywhere. 

In the first portion of this tutorial, we'll be getting you familiar with some of the vocabulary and foundational skills that you'll need in order to begin moving around and working in 3ds Max. From there, we'll move into exploring some of the modeling features found in 3ds Max, and we'll begin building the aircraft that will be our central project for the remainder of this training. 

From there, we'll take you through the entire process of adding textures and materials to the vehicle, adding animated movement and animation controls, adding dynamics, and finally we'll learn how to add lights, shadows, and output our final animated sequence. 

Now this tutorial is designed for new 3ds Max users, so our goal is not to weigh you down with a lot of technical information. Instead, we want you to form some really good habits and workflows – getting to see the entire start-to-finish pipeline for this project – and by the end of this tutorial, we want you to be at a point where you can feel very comfortable using 3ds Max.

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Achieve A Distinctive Look And Mood In Your Renderings

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Achieve a distinctive look and mood in your Architectural renderings by focusing on the massing of shapes and gradation in tone. The key to doing this is to try to see the subject simply as an abstract collection of lights and dark, rather than as the usual objects. This technique can be used to effect a particular look, atmosphere or mood in a finished Architectural renderings. Blur your eyes, squint and try to see things out of focus; this will help you think of the objects in terms of spots, like a blurry photograph, instead of the objects themselves.

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How To Find And Do Work You Love

Scott Dinsmore's mission is to change the world by helping people find what excites them and build a career around the work only they are capable of doing. He is a career change strategist whose demoralizing experience at a Fortune 500 job launched his quest to understand why 80% of adults hate the work they do, and more importantly, to identify what the other 20% were doing differently. His research led to experiences with thousands of employees and entrepreneurs from 158 countries. Scott distilled the results down to his Passionate Work Framework - three surprisingly simple practices for finding and doing work you love, that all happen to be completely within our control. He makes his career tools available free to the public through his community athttp://LiveYourLegend.net

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The First 20 Hours - How to Learn Anything: Josh Kaufman at TEDxCSU

Josh Kaufman is the author of the #1 international bestseller, 'The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business', as well as the upcoming book 'The First 20 Hours: Mastering the Toughest Part of Learning Anything.' Josh specializes in teaching people from all walks of life how to master practical knowledge and skills. In his talk, he shares how having his first child inspired him to approach learning in a whole new way. 

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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Setting up a V-Ray Shading and Lighting Pipeline

This must-see Master Class will help you integrate V-Ray into your workflow. 

Advanced topics include:
One-click linear workflow.
Managing large scenes using the improved V-Ray Proxy loader.
Transferring animated assets from Maya to 3ds Max using Alembic caches.
Texture shortcuts using V-Ray procedurals.
Optimizing Global Illumination for animations.
Using V-Ray's extensive Render Elements and creating customized render passes.

Multichannel OpenEXR output for compositing in Nuke.

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V-Ray Essentials Crash Course

A 20-minute crash course covering shading basics, simple lights setup, Global Illumination and Render Elements.
Presented by Vassil Pepelyankov, V-Ray Master Trainer

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Creating Colored Pencil Art? Claim this FREE Download!

Each of us come to art for different reasons. Some of the most common include the need to express ourselves and the desire to create memories of the things, people and places we experience. It’s freeing to be able to stop what you’re doing anywhere and sketch a scene or put a new idea to paper while it’s fresh in your mind. While painting is satisfying, carrying all the supplies you need on a daily basis takes planning and can be cumbersome. Color pencil drawing, on the other hand, keeps it simple. Paper, pencils, a sharpener and eraser are the basics that you need; all of which can easily fit in a backpack or satchel.

LEARN ABOUT COLORED PENCIL TECHNIQUES IN THIS FREE DOWNLOAD!

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But this is just one reason that using colored pencils is attractive. Gary Greene, artist, contributor to The Artist’s Magazine and author of The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil, has this to add:

“Colored pencils are relatively inexpensive and the palette is extensive. The color is pure, clean and bright. The medium is permanent, and colored pencil drawings do not require elaborate care or storage. Along with hard and soft colored pencils, watercolor pencils and oil-based colored pencils offer more options for beginning artists.

“Colored pencil offers the pleasures and rewards of both drawing and painting. Whatever other medium you enjoy, you’ll find colored pencil a worthwhile addition to your repertoire.”~Gary Greene, from The Artist’s Magazine’s Mediapedia, July/August 2009

Colored Pencil Art 101

The process for using colored pencils isn’t as obvious as one may think. There are many colored pencil techniques—don’t start without knowing how to get the best results from your supplies. In Colored Pencil 101 (a free excerpt from The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil), you’ll learn how to use the two types of strokes that work best for colored pencil painting, how to follow contours to show the shape of a surface, how to gradually add color and how to keep your color from becoming contaminated. Greene shows you how to work from dark to light, create highlights, make adjustments and keep things as clean as possible to protect your final painting.

Plus, along with this free download from The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil, you’ll receive the free ArtistsNetwork.com newsletter with inspiration for painting with watercolor, oil, pastel, acrylic, and of course, colored pencil!

Colored Pencil Tutorial

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In Colored Pencil 101, you’ll gain an understanding of how to use colored pencils and apply a variety of techniques to your own paper. Give yourself this helpful knowledge that will move you closer to getting the artistic results you want for your own drawings and paintings.

Colored Pencil Techniques

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  • Learn why it’s important to follow the contours of your subject’s shapes to give a realistic impression.
  • Discover how to add color gradually so that you don’t lose the naturally translucent character of your colored pencils on the paper.
  • Understand what it means to work from dark to light; an important concept that will determine the success of your work

Using Colored Pencils

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At some point in any given painting, you’ll want to make adjustments. In this free download, Greene explains the difference between adjusting wax or oil-based colored pencil marks as opposed to adjusting water-soluble colored pencil marks, as well as what happens when you use a solvent.

Colored Pencil Drawings!

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You didn’t pick up your colored pencils to get frustrated. Having the advice and knowing these tips from Colored Pencil Art 101 will ensure that your colored pencil experience will start out positive because you’ll have all the basic information you need to create a colored pencil painting, and you’ll enjoy the process along the way.

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