3ds Max: Paths to Success
Powerful avenues have opened up for people seeking to develop skills for using 3ds Max®. Professionals develop course work, offer one-on-one reviews, mentoring, and more. They share their experience as they fight to compete against top professionals in the world for jobs.
These aren’t the typical tutorials people can find on Udemy or LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda). You have to dig and search and find yourself along a learning curve that places you on the right path. When you get there (if you are reading this, you probably are), you find yourselves at the doorsteps of professionals who go out of their way to share experience and skills they’ve honed through years of production experience. This month, I introduce a few of these professionals.
Professional: Ciro Sannino, https://www.learnvray.com/
Ciro Sannino leads the path for training for architectural visualization using 3ds Max and V-Ray. His 5SRW certification program offers 40+ detailed lessons with content guiding professionals through every step to use 3ds Max with Vray to create realistic visualization in a consistent and repeatable way. His system covers every single thing a professional needs to know to produce the highest quality content. Additionally, Ciro’s recently released book, Chiaroscuro with V-Ray, dives more into the various topics he covers, giving professionals all the tools they need to produce content. If you are serious about producing quality architectural visualizations, it’s smart to be a permanent part of his program.
Figure 1: Ciro Sannino, 5SRW Gravity / V-Ray
Professional: Jamie Cardoso, https://jamiecardoso-mentalray.blogspot.com/
Jamie Cardoso spent the greater part of the last decade blogging, writing books, and contributing to the visualization industry covering many aspects of visualization. Recently, Jamie started introducing courses through Patreon, YouTube, and more.
Figure 2: Jamie Cardoso, Studio Lighting
Professional: Miloš Černý, https://www.miloscerny.com/
Miloš Černý is a character animator in game development, motion graphics designer, and 2D/3D animator. Milos offers numerous video tutorials with downloadable content. His experience in animation using various programs in games like DayZ and Vigor gives him a unique perspective to guide users concerning animation for content using 3ds Max. You can access additional content from his Patreon page.
Figure 3 Miloš Černý Animation
Brian Chapman is an Autodesk Authorized Developer, Digital Artist, and a Senior Designer for an engineering firm located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Brian shares tips and tricks at procad.blog with a portfolio of digital artwork and renderings at emptypawn.com. Brian’s email is procadman@pro-cad.net
