Need to get results with 3ds max fast? Why take months to learn every button in 3ds max when you can create great visuals with just a few key tools? Learn to create quick yet stunning special effects, and animated characters with the fastest techniques possible. Need convincing grass, trees, water, shadows? You can use the memory-hogging methods that choke your display and take forever to render, or you can get it done bing-bang with this book. When you need an animated character you can spend days...

Learning Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 Design Essentials is a superb end-to-end reference that provides users with complete info on all of the features and options available in the latest version of 3ds Max Design, so that users can learn how to use 3ds Max Design confidently in a production environment. Each chapter offers a series of lessons - which introduce the functional areas of Max Design and go over all associated features (with examples), and then a lab (which demonstrates a practical application...

This text gives readers a look at the popular art form of Digital Photography by taking them into the studios of award-winning commercial photographers who use digital technology to produce their work.

With the success of movies such as Toy Story and Babe. the latest and greatest in computer animation is popping up in everything from movies and video games to TV advertisements to CD-ROMs. This book compiles the most recent advances and techniques in computer animation from experts from around the world to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of all that is possible in developing artificial life.

QuickTime enables programmers to create multimedia applications with sound, video, and animation. This book provides information on QuickTime fundamentals and shows how to manipulate video data, use the Movie Toolbox to load, play, create, and edit video data, and use image compression to enhance the performance of QuickTime movies.

This series of practical colour guides for the camera owner provides instructions from professionals on how to get more impact from every aspect of photography. Each volume gives step-by-step instructions and case studies and is illustrated with over 300 colour photographs. This volume in the series sets out to show how to achieve more dynamic composition.

A lavish, profusely illustrated volume that tells the remarkable story of the organization whose name has become synonymous with state-of-the-art special effects: Industrial Light & Magic. From its early days in a large empty warehouse in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, to its Oscar-winning accommplishments creating special effects for the STAR WARS trilogy, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, ET, POLTERGEIST, and a host of others.

This book should be of interest to students taking courses in film/video production, electronic moviemaking and film-style video.