Inside SoftImage 3D [With Contains Popular Plug-Ins, Sample Shaders...]

by Anthony Rossano

A tutorial guide for beginner to intermediate artists and animators, starting at basic level and reaching a professional level for production-quality animations. Contains step-by-step exercises and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562058851
• ISBN13: 9781562058852
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Length: 764 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Anthony Rossano knows his stuff!

I recently finished a 11 week hard-as-hell curriculem TAUGHT by Anthony Rossano. The book has an amazing amount of information. But, what he knows personally about this software is incredible! There is NO other book that has half the info that this book does. It's perfect for user's who understand the software and want to go to the next step!

awesome

I've read this book and i learnt Softimage 3D like i was using it from years, it draws a path from the beginning to the advanced tecniques. Thank you Mr. Rossano keep writing this kind of books you're the very best

The Softimage beginner's bible. Almost perfect.

Inside Softimage 3D, by anthony Rosano, is great. Rosano is a world class explainer. Step by step he covers almost every facet of the Softimage3D program. Using simple explainations and step by step tutorials, he demystifies Softimage, and shows how to get the most out of it. He covers every aspect of modeling, texturing, rendering, and animation in Softimage. He even covers complex topics like inverse kinematics. Also included in the book are insightful interviews with designers who use Softimage every day. The book is well designed, well bound, and gigantic. It has hundreds of pictures, all in full color, which illustrate the concepts Rosano tackles. When I started using Soft3D I was lost. I bought two videos on softimage that each cost a lot more than this book does. They were no help to me at all. One week after getting this book, however, I was rendereing and animating my own simple scenes. Now more far more experienced with the program, I still refer to the book from time to time. I cannot praise this book enough. Anthony Rosano has created what amounts to the Bible for beginner or intermidiate users of Softimage. The only problem with the book is that it doesn't cover particle systems and only skims the surface the Mental Ray rendering engine. Aside from that, however, this book is perfect.

One of the best book.....

This book is a little bit expensive. It took me a while to decide weither I should buy it or buy a cheaper one. Finally I bought it. I know I will like this book when the first time I open it and start to read it. One thing you should know is this book is in full color, all pictures, all pages. The author is a really experienced 3D artist. You will learn many advices from him, which will help your life easier and work better. This book covers most features of Softimage v3.7 extreme (yes v3.7, so it's pretty new) includes rendering in MentalRay, hierachies, more important, the softimage program interface. This book tells you where the tools are, and what does each part of the program do. Note that this book DOES NOT teach particles. this is a book can compare with the Adobe Classroom series. by the way, I only used Softimage once before I read this book.

FINALLY!!!

Finally, this is the book I have been waiting for. "Inside Softimage 3D" is like a class-room book. It just get to the point -- there are not much 'unimportant' information in there at all. Therefore, I am strongly recommanding this book to beginning, intermediate, and more experienced Softimage users. However, there is one thing I wished this book would cover: Particle System. I can't seem to find any information about the use of particle system... (So for those of us who are struggling to learn about particle system, we'll have to find another source). But the over all of this book is just excellent.