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Flag Animation
- Model, texture and animate a flag.
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Create a Rube Goldberg Machine
- A Rube Goldberg machine is an exceedingly complex apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. They are usually made of household items and take longer to make than do the actual task they were designed for. Good fun though. Here, our machine is going to perform a very simple task. Follow the step by step instructions for more details....
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Simulate Rope in Reactor
- Learn how to simulate rope dynamics and attach it to rigid bodies.
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Planet Explosion in 3D Studio MAX
- All of us have seen mighty explosion of planet in many sci-fi movies. And this mass explosions respect us with their disaster force and destruction power. In this tutorial you will see how to make similar explosion on some planet in 3D Studio MAX.
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Create Default Scene
- Easy way to manage your objects and lights is to create default scene. This tutorial will show you how to do that.
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Colliding Objects Using Reactor
- This 3D Studio Max tutorial for Reactor shall teach you how to animate a realistic looking collision of objects.
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Creating Realistic Cigarette Smoke
- Learn how to create a realistic looking cigarette smoke that gradually fades out.
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Creating a Planet Shockwave Explosion
- This tutorial will teach you how to create an animation of of a planet shockwave explosion in outer space.
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Lip Syncing with 3D Studio Max
- A quick and easy way, how to lipsync a charcter with a specific sound.
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Simulating Curtain Movement
- This tutorial will teach you how to simulate the movement of cloth using the cloth Reactor and the wind Reactor. You are required to have basic knowledge in how to use 3DS Max. We are going to implement the usage of these two Reactors by simulating a wind blowing at cloth curtain.
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Simulating Car Motion Using Reactor
- This tutorial will teach you how to simulate car motion using the Wheel Reactor.
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Quick Glow
- Learn how to create quick glow.
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Making of a robot: Step 2 Animation
- Second step in the making of robot series. This time we look at animation.
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Easily Animate using Auto Key
- This tutorial will teach you how to easily animate an object using the "Auto Key" animation technique, this technique lets you animate without bones or anything.
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Animating Using Bones, The Easy Way
- Animating Using Bones, The Easy Way To start off with, create five boxes to form toes, the foot, lower leg, upper leg and hip, as shown below: When you have done that link the objects in the following order toe to foot, foot to lower leg, lower leg to upper leg, upper leg to hip.
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Auto-key animation
- This tutorial will teach you how to animate using a very simple technique that does not require bones or paths in 3DS MAX.
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Modeling and animating a clock
- Model and then animate a clocks hand using sliders.
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Bullet Time Matrix Effect
- How to make effect of frozen time (like in The Matrix movie) in 3D Studio Max.
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Rigging Robotic Joints
- In this tutorial you will learn how to rig a mechanical leg with and without bones, and how to create a working hydraulic piston including a hose. Key terms include bones, IK, Pivots, Links, and the Look At constraint.
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Animating A Ball
- This is a very simple tutorial describing how to animate a ball or a wheel rolling down an irregular path.
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Animating Timmy Foo
- This is a introduction tutorial on animating Timmy Foo. You can download the model at our Models page. I\'ll explain the various controls on Timmy, how to use them. And I will explain a bit about the animation process. After this tutorial you\'ll be ready to animate Timmy (I hope).
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Character Animation
- This tutorial covers the modelling of a complete cartoon character with clothing and animation.
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AVI File for Adding Visual Effects
- Set a background AVI file to your viewport and rendering output. This allows you to add special effects to an already existent video file.
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Connecting and Animating Bones
- Connect bones to create your very own walking leg animation.
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