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Building 3D Models with modo 701

By : Juan Jiménez García
Book Image

Building 3D Models with modo 701

By: Juan Jiménez García

Overview of this book

<p>Computer generated graphics (CGI) are part of the design market. CGI helps digital designers from many industries to have a clear representation of their products before they are produced. To name a few, interior designers, architectural studios, and furniture designers can implement CGI images into their workflow, saving them time and money.</p> <p>"Building 3D Models with modo 701" will introduce you to the world of next generation 3D content creation in a practical manner. This will not be a software manual, but a real-world guide that will skip the unnecessary details and focus on what's needed to complete a commission from a client. It will get you the best results in minimum time.</p> <p>In this book you will learn the entire process, from a preliminary design to the final art. All the stages are covered. You will be guided through modeling, creating materials, placing lights, optimizing your render, and showing it to your customer in an efficient way.</p> <p>You will learn how to quickly generate shapes and recreate real-world materials present in most of scenes: wood, metals, glass; along with working with textures and learning how to apply them convincingly. Create the mood of your scene by using lights, place the camera like a photographer would do to get that nice shot, and make a good quality realistic render and show it to your client with that extra punch of production that every pro should know.</p> <p>"Building 3D Models with modo 701" is not a user manual, but a step-by-step walkthrough of the real world of a 3D artist.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building 3D Models with modo 701
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Foreword

Dear readers, starting to work with powerful and complex software of any kind may be a reason for countless moments of frustration. Although modo from Luxology is a modern application with a beautiful and streamlined user interface, the new-user-frustration aspect is not new. If you want to avoid these moments and shorten your learning curve dramatically, then you have come to the right place. Juan Jiménez shares his experience, and will help you to quickly be productive and not waste time fighting the tool. His workflow has been tested and iteratively refined in many real-life projects. Be it cars, furniture, machinery, interior architectural design and visualization, or many other areas, Juan covers a broad range in the computer graphics world. This book is not about theory, it is about how to achieve results, get the job done, and meet deadlines. Only years of experience, intense and passionate use of this great software for a long time, can lead to a book like this. I wish I had access to such a source of inspiration when I started to work with modo. It would have shortened my learning curve a lot as well.

Peter Stammbach,

modo YouTube guru, Switzerland

Peter's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/stammpe2