3DStudio Max tutorials – There’s so many, which one do I pick?

It’s hard starting off on your own staring at a blank 3D program and not knowing at all what the hundreds of buttons do around the interface. It can be intimidating and quite frankly, a real frustrating experience to pick up on a new 3D application.

There are great tutorials all over the web but sometimes it’s hard to fish through them to get anything worth while. Here is a great series of video tutorials that I’ve found that gets your feet wet for modeling well in 3DStudio Max (you’ll have to scroll down a bit when you click on the link to get to it). Things are taken slow and steady just like a good teacher should do things, however there is no audio. The homepage screen has about a dozen excellent tips that help tremendously as your go through the tutorials. It has five parts that you can download here – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

I would also note that 3DStudio Max has one of the best integrated help files out of any program. I wouldn’t hesitate to use it as trouble comes knocking on your door. I find that these video tutorials are a great addition to the help file because actually seeing someone else’s efficient modeling process is difficult to explain in words.