Sams Teach Yourself 3D Studio MAX 2 in 14 Days

By Dave Kalwick and Paul Kakert

A step-by-step guide to learning the basics of MAX 2, written by a MAX 2 instructor and artist, this book breaks learning the software down into 14 easy lessons. Readers will find well-illustrated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672312689
• ISBN13: 9780672312687
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 1.1" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Towering Pile of 3D Extravaganzas

The action never ended with this book. I read it again and again until the front of my head caved in like an old pumpkin. It was quite a sight, the cat wouldn't cuddle for days. If this hadn't happened I would have been a store of 3-D knowledge like the world has never known. But it did . . .So here I am. Buy the book but don't read it as many times as I did.

Great book for beginners

This is a damn good book for beginners. It teaches the basics. The f/x series of books will take you to the next level after understanding the basics described in this book.

A plucky upbeat attack on your sensibilities

Though the characters were a little flat I found the intertwining plot lines surrounding the basic primitives, keframes and texture maps to be full of go for the throat action. And the parts with the "Animate Button" were just dreamy.

Great book!

I read the book and thought it did a great job of teaching all the tools necesscary to effectively utilize the software.

This is for beginners only!

I was familiar with truespace already and thought "I'm sure I can figure max out without tutorials or reference books." I was wrong. This book gives you all the material you need to get up and going to create, modify, and conceptualize 3d ideas. I highly recommend purchasing one of the more advanced manuals in addition however, as you will want to delve into certain sections in more detail than what is presented here. The manual is dry, to the point, and unimaginative in my view, but it does what it says and that is really all that matters.