3D Studio Max Tutorial Links

Modeling

  • Abstract
  • Advanced Applications of the Surface Modifier
  • Adventures in Lofting
  • Barrel Tutorial
  • Body Modeling - Modeling with Meshsmooth
  • Boolean Compound objects
  • Box Modeling the Basic shape of a car
  • Box Modeling
  • Box Modeling Part 2
  • Box Modeling - A witches Hat
  • Box Modeling an Alien
  • Building a Company Logo
  • Build a Purple Alien
  • Bumpy Guitar
  • Car Modeling
  • Cave Scene
  • Cave Scene (2)
  • Cloning and the Xform Modifier
  • Clothing
  • Create a Pully
  • Creating a Logo similar to the Kinetix ® Logo
  • Creating a Human face in 3dsmax using NURMS
  • Creating a Human face in 3dsmax using NURMS
  • Creating a Lathed NURBS Surface
  • Creating an asteroid
  • Creating Landscapes
  • Creating Underwater Scenes
  • Crystall Ball
  • Dragon Wings
  • Easy Tubes
  • Edit Splines
  • Egg Cell Tutorial for Max 4
  • Extrude
  • Facial Modeling - Spline Modeling Heads
  • Football tutorial
  • glass-crystal
  • Glass Tube
  • Glass with Ice Cubes
  • Grow a better Lawn
  • Guide to making a polygonal head in 3DSMAX
  • Hidden Faces
  • How to Make an Oil Barrel
  • Human Hand
  • Introductory Series of Tutorials
  • "It's all in the eyes"
  • Lamp of Sultan Modeling Tutorial
  • Landscape
  • Make an Oil Barrel
  • Making an Audi TT
  • Making of BMW Z3
  • Making Creatures with FFD
  • Making Grass
  • MAX NURBS--The Piston Project Piston Project
  • Model a dolphin
  • MODELING A FACE WITH MAX
  • Modeling a Human Body
  • Modeling a Simple Santa
  • Modeling Feet
  • multilofting tutorial
  • NURBS Basics.
  • Nurbs Baseball Bat
  • Nut and Bolt modeling
  • Organic modelling
  • Radial Arrays
  • SETTING UP REFERENCE IMAGES IN A VIEWPORT
  • Shape Merge
  • Smooth Wavey Abstract
  • Spikey abstract
  • Spline Cage Tutorial
  • This Old House
  • Tenticles
  • Tentacles and Chains Using Path Deform
  • Tree Modeling
  • Tree Modeling - Shag Fur
  • Two Sided Egg
  • Using the Virtual Viewport
  • Wireframe Image
  • Wood Carving
  • WWII Fighter Aircraft Modeling

    Animation

    Acceleration & Deceleration Bullet Time - Matrix Effect
  • Advanced IK Setups using 3DSMAX's "New IK"
  • Animated Book Pages
  • Animating a ball rolling along a path
  • Animating with Bones
  • Bouncing Ball Part 1 - Basic Keyframing
  • Bouncing Ball Part 2 - Function Curves
  • Blinking Lights
  • Boom Box Animation
  • Character Animation: Principles and Practice
  • Character Animation
  • Company Logo Animation
  • Creating a WalkThrough of AutoCAD designs.
  • Creating an Animated Sky Background
  • Expressional Eyeballs
  • Expression Controllers Primer
  • Expression Controllers : Laser Tracking
  • Forward kinematics
  • Hiding Objects During Animation
  • Inverse Kinematics for MAX
  • IK SetUp
  • Lip Sync - Making Characters Speak
  • LIQUID MOVING IN A GLASS
  • Making an Object follow a path
  • Making objects splat
  • Movement of an Auto
  • Nailing down Feet in Character Studio
  • Nurbs Animation
  • Rolling a ball along a path
  • Setting up a figure with IK legs.
  • SETTING UP A CHARACTER WITH IK SOLVERS
  • Setting Up Slider for Defined Key Poses
  • Space Ship in 2 hours
  • Walking on a Path
  • Walking the Dog with character studio 3

    Fx & Dynamics

  • A Simple Laser
  • A Warp in Space
  • Billowing Smoke
  • Blast Explosion
  • Bubbles
  • Camp Fire
  • Chunky Explosions
  • Cigarette smoke -For 3D Studio MAX 3.x
  • Cigarette Smoke
  • Creating Fire
  • Creating a Shockwave
  • Disco Ball
  • Engine Glow
  • Explosion using Geometric/Deformable objects
  • Explosion Tutorial
  • Explosions
  • Water, Fire and Smoke Effects Using Particles and Opacity Maps
  • Fireball
  • Fountain
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  • Lightning flash
  • Making Fire (for Beginners Max 4)
  • Rocket Trails
  • Splash
  • Space Explotion
  • SPACE EXPLOSION TUTORIAL
  • Smokin' - Advanced Particles
  • Smokin' - More Particles
  • Smokin' - Basic 3DSMAX Particles
  • Steam
  • star wars style shockwave
  • Tornado

    Textures Materials and Shaders

  • Anisotropic Reflections
  • A Simple Reflective Orb
  • Advanced Water Material
  • Applying Multiple Texture Mappings to a Single Object in 3D Studio Max 2.5
  • Basic Water
  • Brick Wall
  • CEL Shader: Chapter 1
  • CEL Shader: Chapter 2
  • Clouds 2
  • Creating realistic water with waves
  • Creating realistic and reusable textures using the COMPOSITE MAP
  • Complex Organic Materials Using Falloff
  • Complex Shaders Using Procedurals
  • Hull Damage
  • Multiple Texture Mapping
  • Max's Metal Shader, and Why You Should Never Use It!!
  • Mixing Procedural maps
  • Metals And Reflections
  • REALISTIC TEXTURING
  • Sparkling Snow
  • This old House
  • Toon Shader Using Falloff Maps
  • Translucency and Sub-Surface Scattering
  • Wet Looking Materials

    Lighting and Rendering and Compositing

  • Cell Shading a Cartoon
  • Compositing a 3D object into 2D scene
  • Faking Global Illumination
  • Half Wire Render
  • Lighting: From Film set to 3D
  • Smoky Lights
  • Compositing: Behind the scenes on Moa
  • Compositing: Pyrotechics
  • Compositing: Giving depth to stock footage
  • Compositing: Camera matching
  • Help for Lighting
  • Photorealism in 3ds max
  • http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/projector_lights/projector_lights.htm
  • Refractive Eggs
  • Volumetrics: Combustion

    Plug Ins and Other Software

  • Antialiasing of Bump Maps Using Brazil
  • Brazil 0.2.21
  • Character Studio Tips and Tricks
  • ClothReyes
  • How to import AutoCAD files into 3D Studio
  • Importing Adobe Illustrator files
  • Lip Sync - Making Characters Speak
  • Modeling a head with NURMS
  • SkyLight With Brazil 0.1.3
  • Undersampling GI in Brazil
  • Using Clothreyes with Max 3dS to make a shirt on Poser figure

    Max Scripting

  • Creating a Simple Previewer
  • The Claw (expressions)
  • Link Object to a Vertex
  • Max Scripts
  • Simple MAX Scripting!

    Misc

  • Adding Sound
  • Basic Buttons
  • Camera Matching and Video Tracking
  • Concepts
  • Max Tutorials: Lots of em!
  • Tips and Tricks (83 of them)

    Non-English

    3dsmax-dgdt.fr.st
    French - Basic tutorials to start with 3dsmax

    3dvf.com
    Good selection of Max tutorials in French.

    Tutorials 3D Studio Max de 3D-City
    Lots of Max tutorials en fracais.

    3dmaxer.dk
    Danish site with 140+ tutorials

    3d-editing.tk
    German 3dsmax Modelling Tutorial Site with a help Forum

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