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3D Studio Max Tutorials - Basic Keyframing (The Bouncing Ball, part 1) - This tutorial will introduce you to basic keyframe animation in 3D Studio MAX. 1. Open 3D Studio MAX, or select File | Reset.
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3D Studio Max Tutorials - Cell Shading a Cartoon - The trick to making your animation's have a cartoon look is to render your animation twice. The first time you render
3D Studio Max Tutorials - Smoothing keyframes - Animation technque to smooth out keyframe animation.
3D Studio Max Tutorials - Rolling a ball along a path - This is a very simple tutorial describing how to animate a ball or a wheel rolling down an irregular path. It was devised by me in answer to a need for a car which could drive around corners but still have the wheels rotate accordingly.
3D Studio Max Tutorials - Animating a ball rolling along a path. - This is a very simple tutorial describing how to animate a ball or a wheel rolling down an iregular path.
3D Studio Max Tutorials - Exploding a Box - Whenever one thinks of 3D effects, explosions often come to mind. With this tutorial you will learn how to create one of the simplist explosion effects there is, that of a 3D box.
3D Studio Max Tutorials - Fire Animation - This tutorial leaves off from where the Fire Material Tutorial ended. The most amazing part about creating a material that can be used to create the illusion of fire is that it can be controlled. If you would like to have a bowl of fire and for the fire to drip down off the edges, this is possible. If you would like the fire to travel through pipes or forced to hit a wall and then spread out, this is possible. The material, when placed upon a PArray can be forced to conform to any spacewarp and therefore can be bent to your will for your scene.
3D Studio Max Tutorials - Animating Jody Foo - This is a introduction tutorial on animating Timmy Foo. I'll explain the various controls on Timmy, how to use them.
3D Studio Max Tutorials - Keyframe Reduction - Key frame reduction is important for game animation in order to save memory. There is built key reduce that you can use when importing
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