Free Video Tutorials for 3ds Max

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You’re excited about the prospects of creating your own games, films, or design visualizations, and you want to get started quickly. Digital Arts Guild is here to help! On this site, you’ll find the best learning resources available, and our video tutorials simply can’t be beat. We design all of our materials with you in mind. 3ds graphics can be complicated, but we make it simple through clear visual examples and concise, user-friendly explanations.

3ds Max Basics

This is a series of four free videos, each less than ten minutes long. In this series, you learn to navigate the 3ds Max user interface. Using the Modify panel, we create a very simple 3D model, an ice cream cone. This series also introduces object properties, such as name and wireframe color. Among the topics covered are the following:

Create objects and place them in 3D space
Navigate in 3D with mouse and keyboard shortcuts
Choose display options and configure viewports
Adjust object parameters such as Width and Height
Change the shape of an object with a modifier

3ds Max Modeling - Restaurant Chair

In this series of 14 free videos, we use various polygon tools to model a piece of furniture. Our design is inspired by reference images from the real world. Over the course of the two-hour series, we explore the following learning outcomes:

Project Folders
Scene Layout
Editable Spline
Extrude and Sweep Modifiers
Editable Poly
Loft Compound Object
Basic Materials

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