Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2012 Essentials: AUTODESK OFFICIAL TRAINING GUIDE

Acknowledgments

We are thrilled to be a part of Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 Essentials, a complete update and style change to our previous Introducing 3ds Max series. Education is an all-important goal in life and should always be approached with eagerness and earnestness. We would like to show appreciation to the teachers who inspired us; you always remember the teachers who touched your life, and to them we say thanks. We would also like to thank all our students, who taught us a lot during the course of our many combined academic years. Equally, we want to extend many thanks to the student artists who contributed to this book, many of whom are our own students from The Art Institute of California—Los Angeles.

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