3D Studio MAX 3(r) Professional Animation

3D Studio MAX 3 Professional Animation is the only book that take you extensively through the 3D Studio MAX 3 animation process, showing you the techniques that professional animators use to create everything from simple animated particle effects to complex character animation for Web sites, video, film, and other multimedia formats. Written by a group of top-flight 3D animation professionals, this book features the real deal--real-world applications and advanced tutorials: make bipedal, quadra-pedal, and multipedal characters walk; use Cstudio's Biped and Physique; build and animate a realistic human skeleton using MAX Bones IK; create complex scripting with MAXscript to enhance MAX's capabilities; produce muscle-based, multi-layered facial expressions and lip syncs; create deformable objects and fine-tune them with space warps; display and edit trajectories; and animate cameras, lights, and atmosphere. About the Author Angie Jones is a 3D animator with over six years' experience with 3D Studio MAX and specializing in character animation. She is currently an animator at Oddworld Inhabitants (oddworld), creators of the Sony PlayStation games Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus and currently producing Munch's Oddysee. Prior to joining Oddworld Inhabitants in May of 1998, she was a Senior 3D Animator at The Lightspan Partnership Inc. At Lightspan, Angie worked on over 25 of the 60+ character driven educational software products released for the PC and Sony PlayStation. In 1995, Jones also worked on the children's educational TV show Reality Check for Mindflex, Inc., New Line Home Video, and Conduit Communications. This production aired on both NBC and CBS affiliates in the Summer and Fall of 1995. She also worked as a successful freelance and animator in Atlanta, Georgia after graduating from the Atlanta College of Art in 1994. Other credits to her freelance career include: Coca-Cola USA, McDonald's Worldwide, and Majority Stock Presentations; AT&T True Experience On-line