New Martian: Maya & Max Opening Animation Storm

Author: Fang Haishan
Publisher: Beijing Kehai Electronic Publishing House
Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: This set of teaching materials is an advanced training program specifically developed for the creation of opening sequences and special effects in film and television advertisements. It primarily utilizes 3D animation software Maya4, 3dsmax4.2, and compositing software Combustion2, DigitalFusion3.11. All the examples are advanced production cases, adapted by professional advertisers based on commercial production instances, incorporating a wealth of accumulated experience over the years. Currently, 3dsmax and Maya are widely used in professional advertising production, and compositing software is gradually becoming more prevalent. The integration of 3D production and post-compositing is an inevitable trend in future development, which is the basis for the selection of this teaching material. The philosophy of combining software has been consistently applied throughout. The book contains nearly 50 examples, including metal text, logos, the Earth, fire, fireworks, lightning, lava, smoke, trailing text, plant logos, sweeping tail text, shock waves, radiant light, lines, lens flares, old film, stretched text, ripples, melting, lightning, snowflakes, blur, fog, radiant text, etc., covering almost all special effects commonly used in opening sequence production. Additionally, it provides the optimal solutions in terms of software and methods, leveraging the strengths of both 3D and compositing software to improve production efficiency. At the end, four complete opening sequences and film and television special effects production examples are provided, including 10 split-screen scenes (all finished products), enabling beginners to independently practice the entire professional production process and lay a solid foundation for their careers. The content includes:
● A companion manual of 400 pages, containing 14 3D opening sequence production examples, 17 video compositing examples, and 4 comprehensive advertising examples (10 split-screens).
● Disc 3 provides all the scene files and multimedia animation effect demonstrations from the book's production examples, many of which can be modified and directly used in professional film and television production.
● Discs 1 and 2 offer a complete Multimedia Video Teaching Program for Combustion2, providing a comprehensive learning experience of this powerful video compositing software. There are 14 tutorials, nearly 5 hours of content, with a high-definition playback resolution of 1024×768, all personally instructed by Teacher Wang Qi.
This entire teaching material is planned by Wang Qi Computer Animation Studio. The authors of the examples have extensive experience in film and television packaging and special effects production, with numerous outstanding works. The teaching material is specifically designed for the market's urgent need for film and television opening sequence and special effects production personnel, making it highly suitable for rapid improvement training for 3D animation and post-compositing professionals before entering the industry.