Recommend me a.. 3Ds Max book

[Secttor]

Hi,

I have  budget allocated by my employer for books(real ones). It's around 50-70$ and thought it could help me in my progress of learning max. In terms of knowledge.. I'm a beginner but I'd want modelling to be covered at it's best if possible, rendering in arnold it's also important and.. animation, at the end of the priorities.

Do you think "paper" books are a solution for today software? I've learned also Inventor from books and was quite useful.

- had a look on amazon and read a lot of complains regarding the quality of paper or how they're glued'.

Feel free to inform me about this subject and even recommend me some titles if needed.

Thanks!

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

IMHO I can name about a 100 books but it all depends what you are looking for as a career.

goes for anything under Michael McCarthy, Michele Bousquet, Andrew Gahan and Pete Draper

[CiroCardoso3v]

Lynda.com has a trial and that would be a good start for you, if you prefer videos. I honestly find video tutorials, way faster to learn. Maybe is worth a go?

[Anonymous]

@CiroCardoso3vi have to agree with you videos are lot of easier, but i miss when you could buy them instead of paying for a subscription, it may be cheaper for a subscription but you have don't have the psyical copy to hand

[JezEmin]

There is a ton of very good learning material on YouTube. 

Totally free. 

No need to buy anything. 

[Secttor]

thanks for your quick replies.

I know video-tutorials are a modern solution but with my budget I can get only books.

My main worry related to books is how fast information get's old. I'm buying it this year for 2021 release and in 2-3 years 30% of infomation is no more covered by the software due to it's new technologies and evolution?

[JezEmin]

See my reply above. 

[Secttor]

Yes,saw your reply but as I've said I have budget monthly from my emplyer dedicated for books. I can't waste them by skipping such oportunity.

[Anonymous]

IMHO never buy books brand new you will spending the earth on them go on somewhere like amazon or ebay and you can get them a lot cheaper

as i said it all depends on what career you looking to get into

[CiroCardoso3v]

A very cheap and practical one is the latest 3ds Max Bible, which I think is the 2014 edition. Still there are some cool tips there. Another cool one would be this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kelly-Murdocks-Autodesk-Complete-Reference/dp/1630572535/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=...

Is a complete reference. The issue here like you said is how fast things move. If you have a budget each month, maybe get a Gnomon Subscription for a couple of months. They have some cool tutorials about 3ds Max there. I learned a lot with Eat3D Modelling a Buldozer. And like what @Anonymous said, don't buy new books. Get a second hand for the majority of this stuff. 

[Anonymous]

How to Cheat in 3ds Max is my fav Michael McCarthy and Michele Bousquet the newst one  2021 is just being released but from what i am seeing it's out of stock in the UK or routledge are not pubilshing it.

i get confused cos they is so much infomation out there

sidenote Autodesk needs to fix this site

Correct the highlighted errors and try again.