It does exactly what it says on the cover!!

This book has helped me significantly in creating characters for my final degree animation short.

The step by step guides were very clear and concise.

I was using 3ds max 8, and before I found this book, I had problems rigging fingers, in the book it will help you rig fingers with two bones, but you can adapt the method to apply three bones if need be.

The method of modelling your character in the book helped me tailor my own characters human and animal, which is crucial for the skinning to bones. I also had problems with the morpher modifier to help me animate facial expressions and lip-sync when I was using 3ds max tutorials, this book dealt with this because you are using the same model through out the book and the steps were simpler to understand.

The only problem I had with the book was trying to get looped animation for your character to travel along a direction.

Other Reviews

• Two because of the rigging section
• The stepping stone I needed
• It does exactly what it says on the cover!!
• a must-have reference for modeling and animation in 3DS Max7
• You want basic you'll get basic.