10th Anniversary issue: 3D Artist #45 Online Supplement [3DA#45 cover]


This issue went to press on 18 July 2001 and shipped on 3 August.
Page History
17 Aug. 2001:
  > Author's supplement posted for page 28 "DEM o'Graphics" article.
  > Figure 7 is murky on page 23, so today we have posted a 74K version of it here.
3-4 Aug. 2001: This page first posted in preliminary form.

Table of Contents & Supplementary Info

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Cover Story

The cover is by the team at Trinity Animation headed up by Jim Lammers, who arranged the scene, and finished by Amber West. The scene and rendering were done with 3DS Max, with some modeling in LightWave, including the airplane. See page 14 for a lot more about the cover and the comic animation that it was derived from, plus a related article on page 16 about using a game controller for motion capture.
Scripting & Expressions
  4...3D Scripting by Bill Allen, Standalone Python for quick do-it-yourself utilities
  6...Python for trueSpace by Matthew Bennett, Simple scripting can get complex results in tS4+
  6...Poser to tS5 via Python by Matthew Bennett, A ready-to-use script to import figures as morph targets
  8...Python for A:M Scripting by Petr Sorfa, An intro from the author of a new free A:M9 plug-in
33...Hand Animation with Relativity by Brad Herman, Putting expressions to work in LightWave 5.6 & 6.5
A Great Variety of 3D How-To's
10...Maya Clusters by Rudy Cortes, Grins & grimaces without endless modeling
12...ZBrushing Poser Mesh by Julien Van, Using ZBrush 1.13 for Poser modeling
12...Layered Lighting by Kathy LaFollet, Mixing 3D & 2D in ZBrush 1.13
14...Cover Story by Jim Lammers, Creating comic sketches for TV with 3DS Max & LW3D
16...MoCap on the Cheap by Jim Lammers, Multi-track cyber-puppeteering with 3DS Max
18...A 'Do to Do by Robert Undi, Beyond the docs with Shag: Hair in 3DS Max r3.1+
20...3D in the Flash by Adnan Edwards, Getting started with outputting 3D to Flash from Max
21...Vehicle Conformity by Adnan Edwards, Using Max's improved FFD to get car accident crushing
22...2+1D Animation by Todd Grimes, Using LightWave 6.5 to breathe 2D life into 3D space
24...Framing a Story by Benoit Guerville, Part 3: Working with focal length
26...Animating MojoWorld Water by Dr. F.K. "Doc Mojo" Musgrave, An advanced beyond-the-docs animation how-to
28...DEM o'Graphics Potpourri by Thomsen-Norre, Part 3: About datums & getting vector data into WCS5
30...Rebuilding Kinsale: 1601 by R Scott Cherba, Historical battle re-creation using LW5.6 & WCS5
32...Blender Bevel Objects by David Weese, Mixing pears & peppers as a lesson in quick animation
35...Poser Glow Effect by Julien Van, Faking a lighting effect
36...Bagging a Blimp by Cecilia Ziemer, Pushing the envelope with Carrara 1.1

Errata & additional info:
> page 23: Figure 7 is murky on page 23, so we have posted a 74Kb version of it here.

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