3D Artist #37 Online Supplement

3D Artist magazine issue #37 Online Supplement

Published August 1999, 36 pages.
Issue status: 3DA#37 went to press on 14 July, and shipped on 3-4 August, and is now on sale at its many North American outlets. [Order This Issue!]
Web supplement status

Cover The cover image is by Mitch Butler, modeled in LightWave and rendered in 3D Studio Max, derived from one of two animations he will have in shows at Siggraph 99.

Table of Contents & Supplementary Info

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Painterly 3D

	17	Mouse Boat by Barbara Del Duco	Working in the style of childrens' book illustration with Ray Dream Studio 5. (1 page)

	18	Reconstructing a Memory by Tom Marlin	Working in the style of Rockwell and Homer to create a whole scene from the author's childhood, using trueSpace 4 and Poser 3 along with good texture work and tricks with alpha mapping. (3 pages)

	21	Painting with Noise Maps by Eun Kyeong Anna Hennequet	Different strokes can be gotten from mixing and remixing noise maps in 3DS Max r2+. (1 page) [illustration] 58K GIF
Great Variety of How-To's

	6	Showboating by Mitch Butler	Cover story about storytelling using LightWave for modeling and 3DS Max with Character Studio (1 page) [cover image]

	10	A Virtual Lighting Kit by Robert Powers	Creating an 'assembly scene' in LightWave to start with a consistent four-point lighting setup. (1.5 pages)

	12	Softimage Patch/NURBS by Chris Maraffi	Character modeling with Softimage 3.8. (1.1 pages)

	14	DEM o'Graphics by Thomsen-Norre	Using Bryce 4 and MicroDEM+ to get geographic data into LightWave, especially the new USGS 30m SDTS .ddf format. (2 pages) [more text]

	16	Terrain Mesh Modeling by John B. Crane	Using Four Elements with Ray Dream Studio 5.02 to create an artist's representation of a topographically-correct map. (1 page)

	22	The Art of Separation by William H. Munns	Exploring the options that object surfaces offer for controlling a sense of separation and depth between them, as demonstrated with Bryce 4. (3 pages)

	25	DOF Blur & Radiosity by Mike Caputo	Using depth-of-field blur and radiosity in Animation Master 7.1 (AM99). (1 page)

	26	Rendering Unto Caesar by Sanford Kennedy	Working with large numbers of characters in a 3DS Max r3 scene, made possible with Life Forms, without using Character Studio. Shown with a work in progress--Caesar's first failed landing in Britain. (2 pages)

	28	Polygony by Gary Dohanish	Using box modeling to create heads and faces using 3DS Max r2.x and 3DS Viz r2, with additional notes specific to Max r3. (2 pages)

	30	Six-Legged Walk Cycling by R. Cory Collins	Using Imagine for Windows 1.47 to animate a six-legged character, using a nifty "cycle gauge." (2 pages)

	32	Desktop Special Effects by R. Cory Collins	Using Imagine for Windows for Eagle Films' movie, The Road, with the help of Organica and the freeware spline modeler, SPatch. (0.3 page)

	36	The Relationship of Light & Texture by Jeremy A. Engleman	Examining and accounting for how textures and lighting relate, demonstrated with a super-photorealistic dreary basement corner in Softimage, but applicable to all apps. (1.7 pages)
Re:Poser A section of tips for storytellers learning to work with Poser 3+.

	4	BVH 'Flocking' by Cecilia Ziemer	Crowd control for Poser 3 and 4. (0.6 page) [animation] 115K GIF

	8	Animating Textures by Bill Allen	A Poser 3 and 4 workaround for fire, water, backgrounds, etc. (0.6 page) [animation] 52K GIF
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Errata & additional info:
Page 21: In at least some copies of the issue, the most important illustration for E.K. Anna Hennequet's 3DS Max article, "Painting with Noise Maps," is hard to read. Here it is as a 58K GIF.

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