Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray

Vray is a popular add-on rendering application that is available for many popular 3D modeling software packages. The application is noted for creating professional and clean renders in record time which makes it attractive to modelers on tight budgets or tight schedules. This book teaches readers how to create high-quality photorealistic renders of architectural visualizations using 3ds Max and Vray with project-based tutorials. Readers will learn how to combine lighting and rendering options to end-up with the most realistic final renders possible at a professional level. The tutorials in this book are filled with beautiful full-color images.. The companion CD includes all of the necessary project files to recreate each of the projects presented within the book.

*Create photorealistic renders of your visualizations and projects - including interior and exterior shots, as well as shots illuminated with artificial and natural light sources

*Project-based tutorials teach you how to use lighting and rendering options most effectively to create professional level final renders of your visualizations and models - the companion CD includes all of the project files you need

*Learn how to save time without sacrificing the quality of your final renders with tips and tricks on rendering with Vray - the most accurate rendering application for 3ds Max

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How to Cheat in 3ds Max 2011

Need to get results with 3ds max fast? Why take months to learn every button in 3ds max when you can create great visuals with just a few key tools? Learn to create quick yet stunning special effects, and animated characters with the fastest techniques possible. Need convincing grass, trees, water, shadows? You can use the memory-hogging methods that choke your display and take forever to render, or you can get it done bing-bang with this book. When you need an animated character you can spend days fiddling with polygons, or you can use this book to put it together in minutes and get the entire project done in a day. How to Cheat in 3ds max includes a host of time-saving techniques as well as little-known tools that will make you look like an expert in no time flat. This book is for busy professionals who need to get it done right, but also need it done fast.

This rev of the book will have higher-end cheats (for Intermediate users) and ALL NEW or UPDATED content on: new modelling and material tools, mental ray, special effects, particle systems, and scripting.Theweb siteoffers scene files and bitmaps used to illustrate the cheats, also music files, organizational samples, and instructional Camtasia movies of Michele where Michele showing some of the trickier techniques.

* 3ds Max luminary, Bousquet, shares 3ds Max secrets and little-known tips and tricks that save users bundles of time.
* Concise, step-by-step, focused, examples with everything on the accompanyingweb sitesoanimators and modelerscan start toying right away: NEW camtasia MOVIES with Michele demonstrating the trickiest cheats.
* Proven "How to Cheat" series - Learn to create quick yet stunning special effects, animations, realistic textures, and game elements - the fastest techniques possible.

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The Celebrity Tweet Directory

Tweet along with your favorite celebs!

Divided by category with celebrities listed in alphabetical order so you can easily find your favorite celeb, The Celebrity Tweet Directory tweets you to conversations with hundreds of well-known actors, comedians, singers, politicians, sports figures, and more. With this handy guide, you can flutter into the world of celebrity chatter and experience how they reveal themselves in a way you don’t see anywhere else.

With this portable directory, you'll quickly and easily discover what's really happening in Hollywood, on Wall Street, or in Washington, all while following your favorite celeb. In addition, the helpful directory weeds out any fake celebrity twitter accounts, providing only real Twitter handles, saving you the hassle and time of sifting through phony accounts.

- Features a helpful celebrity directory so you can find your favorite celeb and enjoy sweet tweets from the hottest actors, singers, politicians, sports figures, and more
- Weeds out any phony celebrity accounts, saving you the hassle of sorting through fake accounts
- Helps keep you in the know with celebrities on the go, so you're up on what's happening everywhere from Beverly Hills to Capitol Hill

Be the first to hear celebrity buzz and get the chic tweets from your fave celebs with The Celebrity Tweet Directory!
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