High-Quality Tutorials

This page is reserved for our higher-quality tutorials, which includes higher- resolution / longer running video tutorials, and the book Creating Game Art for 3D Engines (which comes with 90 minutes of video tutorials on the book CD).

Book: Creating Game Art with 3ds Max

Creating Game Art for 3D Engines covers creating game art in 3ds Max, and getting it ready for the game engine. 332 pages, 241 full-color illustrations. Includes a book CD with 90 minutes of video tutorials.

See a full chapter-by-chaper overview of this book on the book page or order a copy by clicking the image at right.

Bonus Bones-Rigging/Animation Tutorial

If you have purchased the book "Creating Game Art for 3D Engines", we want to offer you a free, high-resolution, over 90-minute long video tutorial on how to rig and animate bones-based characters in 3ds Max. This video will be available for a limited time, but at least through the first half of 2010. Click here to access the video, you will need to have the book handy to find the passwords to the page.

You can view two (low res) short excerpts from this video tutorial by going to the tutorialsMax.php page. Look for the tutorials called Spider Rigging Bonus Tut Excerpt #1 and Spider Rigging Bonus Tut Excerpt #2.