This four day course is designed for users with at least 2 years experience in 3ds Max and is an enhanced version of the Fundamentals course covering many of the same features and settings but in a different order and in greater depth. During this course, the instructor will briefly cover key fundamentals concepts of 3ds Max to insure that students can make the most of intermediate level concepts. Many students who have been using 3ds Max for several years and who would classify themselves as intermediate level users, are unaware of some basic scene optimization principles that greatly impact rendering times and memory consumption. This course is designed to take intermediate level users to the advanced level by showing how to create and render scenes in the shortest amount of time possible, while maximizing system resources such as RAM and graphic cards.

• Key Interface Elements
• Basic Visualization Modeling (Edit Spline, Edit Mesh, Box Modeling)
• Integrating AutoCAD with Visualization Modeling (Importing line work / Workflow)
• Critical Compound Objects Part I - Lofting
• Critical Compound Objects Part II – Scatter, Terrain, Booleans
• The Critical Visualization Modifiers
• Material Basics for Visualization (Material Editor)
• The Critical Map Channels and Map Types
• UVW Mapping

• Lighting Basics for Visualization (Light types and Critical Settings)
• Photometric Lights and Global Illumination
• VRay introduction (short hands-on project)
• Camera and Animation Basics for Visualization (Critical Settings and Constraints)
• Animation Controllers and the Curve Editor
• Rendering Basics for Visualization (Render Scene Dialog Box )
• Scene Assembly (Linking vs. Importing vs. XRefs)
• Basic Visualization Effects (Fog, Volume Light, Fire, Lens Effect, Depth of Field, Motion Blur)
• Productions Tips (30 critical tips)