Deconstructing the Elements, 3e
Contents
Fire
Nuclear Explosion
Afterburner jet engine
Sparks & explosive sparks
Sparkler trails (long exposure effects)
Forest fire (from the air)
Underwater explosion
Smouldering paper
Earth
Oak Tree
Countryside landscape (uses Oak Tree result as focal point) Beach
cliffs (cont in water section) Grass macro (extreme close-up, cont
in water section) Mud volcano (bubbling / cracked mud) Impact
crater (Meteor crater) Wrapped / strangling Vines
Water
Beach shore (cont from beach cliffs) with lapping shoreline waves
Water droplet crown effect Whirlpool (bath plug?) underwater
splash-in (eg parallel underwater view of an item splashing in)
Icicles / frozen fountain Blood trails (aka ice splash) Frozen lake
Dew on grass (cont from Grass macro)
Air
Steam vent
Heat distortion
Tornado barn destruction (re-vamped version) Dissipating contrail
Aurora Borealis Black Smoker (underwater volcanic vent)
Video tutorials
Fire - rocket lift-off
Earth - Avalanche
Water - Boat Wake
Air - Galaxy
a UK-based visual effects animator and artist with 10+ years experience on large and small screen projects. Starting out as a fine artist and designer, his shift to CG animation led to key roles such as Lead and Senior Artist, Head of Media and, more recently, Visual Effects Supervisor / Director. Pete's work covers a broad range of disciplines and genres from visual effects to reconstructions, commercials to in-house training. He currently writes for 3D World magazine, providing tips, tricks, reviews and tutorials for 3ds max and other animation and graphics tools.
"A detailed, step-by-step guide to creating your own universe. Once
again, Pete Draper helps everyone use 3D Max to the max!"--Mark
Walsh, Supervising Animator, Pixar ""Deconstructing the Elements
with 3ds Max has become a standard, must-have tome for 3ds Max
users of all levels. Pete Draper's many years of real-world
production chops and ongoing industry writing are unmatched. The
clear, step-by-step lessons of this book require no plugins and the
final results are feature-film quality assets. I give it my highest
mark for recommended learning and training resources pertaining to
Autodesk 3ds Max.--Gary M. Davis, Autodesk 3ds Max Master 2007, 3D
Animation & Compositing Specialist, Autodesk Media and
Entertainment "I am instantly blown away by the level of quality
and professional content Pete Draper's new book contains. This book
very thorough in demonstrating professional and production quality
tutorials and exercising production quality work, while being very
informative and easy to follow. Definitely the secret weapon to
keep in your work desk draw to refer back to on a day to day basis!
I thoroughly recommend this book both to beginners and advanced
users alike, I am confident everyone will get a lot from this
book!"--Allan McKay, VFX Supervisor"This book is the definitive
text on 3ds Max effects using Particles and Dynamics....Pete sets
the standard."--Mark Gerhard, Imaginit Technologies
"A detailed, step-by-step guide to creating your own universe. Once
again, Pete Draper helps everyone use 3DS Max to the max!" --Mark
Walsh, Supervising Animator, Pixar "'Deconstructing the Elements
with 3ds Max' has become a standard, must-have tome for 3ds Max
users of all levels. Pete Draper's many years of real-world
production chops and ongoing industry writing are unmatched. The
clear, step-by-step lessons of this book require no plugins and the
final results are feature-film quality assets. I give it my highest
mark for recommended learning and training resources pertaining to
Autodesk 3ds Max.--Gary M. Davis, Autodesk 3ds Max Master 2007, 3D
Animation & Compositing Specialist, Autodesk Media and
Entertainment"I am instantly blown away by the level of quality and
professional content Pete Draper's new book contains. This book is
very thorough in demonstrating professional and production quality
tutorials and exercising production quality work, while being very
informative and easy to follow. Definitely the secret weapon to
keep in your work desk drawer to refer back to on a day-to-day
basis! I thoroughly recommend this book both to beginners and
advanced users alike, I am confident everyone will get a lot from
this book!"--Allan McKay, VFX Supervisor"This book is the
definitive text on 3ds Max effects using Particles and
Dynamics....Pete sets the standard."--Mark Gerhard, Imaginit
Technologies, USA
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