Architectural Rendering: 3ds Max 6 & Photoshop CS Complete Self-Learning Manual

Author: Haiyang Publishing House
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This is a professional-grade textbook for architectural rendering that provides multimedia CDs with exquisite design drawings, abundant models, and materials. The book consists of 14 chapters and 54 typical examples, covering core content such as modeling, texturing, interior lighting design in 3dsmax6, and post-processing with PhotoshopCS. The models include everyday items like coffee tables, glass cups, bedrooms, double beds, railings, decorative floor lamps, grid glass doors, cosmetic packaging, bar stools, oil painting frames, and pavilions. The interior lighting design covers effects such as indoor daylight, building lighting, building sunlight, and indoor shadows. Texturing includes bitmap, gradient, noise, blending, double-sided, cutout, bump, multi-dimensional/sub-object materials, etc. Chapters 11 and 12 provide step-by-step tutorials on post-processing with PhotoshopCS. Chapters 13 and 14, using examples of an interior living room and the "Century Building" exterior, comprehensively demonstrate how professional designers complete the entire process of architectural rendering. The appendix includes answers to some practice questions.
Key Features of the Book:
1. This book is a compilation of years of project experience accumulated by professional designers.
2. The "View Drawings, Learn Design, and Multimedia Teaching" innovative product allows readers to bring designers home at a small cost, providing face-to-face, hands-on guidance, teaching them to fish rather than giving them fish. The learning process is relaxed, engaging, and immediately applicable.
3. From Beginner to Expert: The book progresses from simple to complex, is rich in content, and explains professional techniques. The examples are typical and highly practical.
4. Great Value: The three accompanying CDs are packed with abundant models, environmental design elements, and decorative libraries needed for post-processing architectural renderings, aiming to broaden readers' horizons, encourage innovation, and lead them into a broader realm of wisdom.
5. Thoughtful, Considerate, and Convenient: Each chapter ends with practice exercises corresponding to the chapter's content, and the appendix includes answers to these exercises, making it easy for both teaching and self-study.
CD Content:
Disc 1: 3D animation tutorials covering all examples and exercises in the book.
Discs 2 and 3: Practice material files, final example rendering source files, a bonus model library (215 lighting models and 342 furniture models), and a scenic library (including over 200 such as carpets, doors, windows, flooring, environmental decorations, plants, animals, humans, sculptures, and lighting).
Target Audience: This book is a quick-start self-study guide for beginners and intermediate readers aspiring to work in interior and exterior decoration design to support their families. It is also an excellent textbook for animation schools, vocational colleges, and interior decoration training classes.
《Architectural Rendering—3dsmax6 & PhotoshopCS Complete Self-Study Manual》 will make your life richer, happier, and more competitive than others!