How To Use This Book

This book was written to give beginning 3D artists a map through the art and how to get involved in the 3D industry. You can use this book by reading all the way through it cover to cover with or without doing the tutorials, by picking and choosing chapters based on gaps you want to fill, or as a quick reference to a concept you remembered last week but not this minute. You don’t even need to own software yet for this book to be useful to you. In fact, it may be a help as you decide which application will best fit what kind of 3D art you want to do.

If you are at all familiar with tutorials for 3D or other types of art or activities, you’ll know that they often give very detailed, step-by-step instructions on which exact ...

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