The [url=http://www.3d-imaging.co.uk/pages/3d_character_design.htm]3D character design is very nicely done. You can imagine the family resemblance when involved together in game scenes that involve [u ...

Also important for 3D artists to have a grasp of the traditional art forms such as drawing and painting to get their eye "in" in terms of judging compositions and colour combinations that wo ...

Love the Toy Story movies. Technically perfect but more importantly the storytelling is moving and holds the attention.

In 3dsmax 2011 click on the icon in the top left pick Export. At the bottom of the dialogue box pick dxf from the Save as file drop down menu.

Use 3ds. There are some great books available for it on animating text.

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Try 3ds here are good books on manipulating 3D text using this program.

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If you are adding for example a stripe in the paint down the side of the car then create the stripe in a 2D graphics application. Save as jpg. In the Architectural material in 3dsmax add in the ...

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"3ds max 4 Media Animation" by John Chismar is a great book for 3D text model animation.

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If possible go for one with the Nvidia Mobile Quadro graphics card. Pretty much desktop level viewport response in a laptop.

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A good cheap motherboard and a bargain processor for a starter would be:

Asus M4N68T-M LE V2

This motherboard allows the usage of an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Hexa Core CPU which is a mid-range g ...

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Nice bit of speed modelling. Would be good to see it rendered with photoreal materials and studio lit.

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The one CGI shot is right at the end. It uses as a backdrop of a still image of the man sitting against the wall. This

could have been taken as a still with a DSLR camera. For the small mo ...

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Love the Dr Octopus Arm + robotic arm. Very impressive all the way through.

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For pre-made 3D Structures that could then be animated then Turbosquid is a great site for buying that kind of material.

Please take a look at the 3D animators work on 3d-imaging.co.uk also ...

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If you can get the text in a font into a vector 2D graphics program and save into the Adobe Illustrator format then you

could import the illustrator file into 3dsmax.

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Blender is a great free tool with increasingly sophisticated 3d character animation and rigging tools. Google "Blender

Character Rigging"

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Using carefully placed white self-illuminating boxes in the scene to just appear in the reflections of the car body can

give control showing off contours of the shape.

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