Advanced 3ds max 5-Modeling Animating

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Boris Kulagin

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Boris Kulagin has ten years of experience in developing computer games and computer graphics for television and the Web. He is also the author of the successful book 3ds max 4: From Objects to Animation.

Acknowledgments

This book would have been impossible without the help of the management and my colleagues at A-LIST Publishing, so I sincerely thank them.

I am also thankful to:

• Pavel Osharin, my colleague and friend, for invaluable notes and help in the writing of this book

• The management of Realtime School - Director Eugeny Landyshev, head of studies Sergey Tsyptsyn, and teacher Mikhail Shagin - for high praise of my unpretentious work

• Pavel Kuznetsov, Cuneyt Ozdas, Peter Watje, Fred Moreau, Laszlo Sebo, Steve Johnson, Ivan Kolev, and ChaoticDimension for permission to use their plug-ins and scripts

Special thanks to:

• Dmitry Morozov, the chief artist of Moscow studio Ariorh and a teacher at Realtime School, for permission to use his work as the cover illustration and for comments on it

• Lorenza Cappello, press secretary of ItalDesign Giugiaro, for 11 pounds of the company's development materials; they were invaluable during the preparation of Lesson 15

• Arild Wiro Anfinnsen for permission to use his experience with modeling in Lesson 16

• All of my students at Realtime School and Moscow Electronic Machinery Institute; much in the book was tested on them

• My family for moral support, patience, and understanding

And thank you for purchasing this book. I hope it will be useful.

Yours sincerely,
Boris Kulagin

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