3D Artist #38 Online Supplement

3D Artist magazine issue #38 Online Supplement

Published October 1999, 36 pages.
Issue status: 3DA#38 went to press on 7 October, and shipped on 28-29 Oct. Most of our North American outlets, including the big chains, are expected to put it out on or soon after 12 Nov. Some stores will have it earlier. [Order This Issue!]
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3D Careers & Education

	12	Production Myths, Realities & Illusions by David Hopkins	Life in the real world of high-pressure TV production 3D graphics, with some comments on how to enter the field. (1.6 pages)

	14	Cultivating Animators by Adam Watkins	The importance of using low-end apps to begin a student's 3D education. (2 pages)
Painterly 3D

	16	Capturing a Feeling by David Campbell	Using textures in LightWave 3D to create a painterly warm day in Venice. (1.1 pages)

	28	Baking Day by Barbara Del Duco	Using Ray Dream Studio 5.5 to create and animate a painterly old-time kitchen scene, warm inside and the first falling snow of Fall outside. (1.0 page) [image/animation (29Kb)]

	32	Poser for Posing by Dennis DeRyke	Using Poser 3 and Painter 5 to set up an oil painting that looks like a stained glass panel. (0.5 page)
Great Variety of How-To's

	6	Cover Story by Cecilia Ziemer	Using both stock and custom figures in Poser 4 with Photoshop compositing to create a cover image entitled, "After the Birds of Summer Have Gone." (0.3 page) [cover image (18Kb)] [full text]

	8	Digital Photo Textures by Tom Marlin	Using digital cameras in your 3D art. (2 pages)

	18	Bat Swarms by Robert Powers	Using LightWave 5.6 and Particle Storm 2 to animate whole swarms of bats in the movie, Bats. (2 pages)

	18	LWS Text Editing by Robert Powers	Handling tedious chores easily and quickly, and salvaging problem files, using a word processor to edit LightWave text-based .lws files. (0.6 page)

	20	Convincing Dialog by Chris Derochie	Tips for animating dialog, which involves much more than just spoken words. (1.3 pages)

	22	Blowing Smoke by Adam Watkins	Using light particles is the key to creating good smoke effects in Cinema 4D. (1 pages)

	23	Double Matting by Mike Caputo	Using more than one matte to get better flexibility in later compositing work, demonstrated with footage from Animation Master. (1.4 pages)

	24	Underwater Caustics by Sotiris Gougousis	Special effects lighting for Animation Master. (1.6 pages)

	26	Express Yourself! by Chris Maraffi	An introduction to using expressions in Softimage to go beyond just constraints and IK. (2.1 pages)

	30	Flex by Sanford Kennedy	Simulating soft body dynamics in 3DS Max r3 with its new Flex modifier. (1.4 pages)

	32	Poser for Max Model Generation by Gary Dohanish	How to use Poser 4 with 3DS Max r2 and r2.5 figures, demonstrated with a forensic project. (0.5 page)

	36	Queen's Bath, The by William H. Munns	Adding vines and flowers to an interior scene from the author's Hanging Gardens of Babylon project. (2 pages)
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33		Business Card Ads	Dealers, software, textures, and services.

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6		Editorial Space	[full text]

6		Errata	Corrections and updates.

6		Masthead	Details about *3D Artist*.

34		Toolbox	Where to get more product info.

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