3ds Max: Special Effects for Design Visualization

Discover how to use special effects and techniques for 3ds Max to enhance the production quality of your design visualization projects.

Design visualizations can help you clearly communicate your ideas to your stakeholders, and get them excited about bringing your concepts to life. By adding tasteful special effects to your design visualization projects—such as billowing foliage and movie-style camera effects—you can make your designs even more compelling. In this course, discover how to use special effects and techniques for 3ds Max to enhance the production quality of your design visualization projects. Instructor Chris Murray demonstrates how to add wet looking materials and masks, unroll and unfold objects with Bend, create mood with atmospherics, use 3ds Max cameras like real-world cameras, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• How to use the exercise files

1. Advanced but Quick Material Effects

• Using Blended Box Map to add depth and realism
• Creating wet looking materials and masks

2. Cool Ways to Do Reveals

• Creating reveals with the Texture Object Mask
• Using animated Gradient Ramps
• Unrolling and unfolding objects with Bend
• Animated Booleans

3. Add Believable Realism with Animation Techniques

• Creating billowing foliage: Trees and wind
• Creating mood with atmospherics

4. Movie Style Camera Effects

• Real-world cameras, depth of field, and exposure control
• Dollies, cuts, and cranes

Conclusion

• Next steps