You all know two things by now; I'm passionate about 3ds Max training, and Spring is coming. Here I'll combine a New England tradition with my thoughts on current training.   more »

You can tell you're getting old when original appears near your name. If you're bored and the boss isn't looking, check my Autodesk Area interview in the message body.   more »

M fundamental Lights and Materials is now available at CADLearning. Over 7 hours in 97 lessons or working efficiently and flexibly to create 3ds Max or VIZ materials for the lighthouse scene.   more »

I got an email asking about animating garage doors, so here are two options. I've purposely created the objects so that I would be able to illustrate potential alignment problems with Path Constraint. Easy to fix...when you know how!   more »

A question came up on the Autodesk VIZ. support forum about the orientation of shapes used with Bevel Profile modifiers. I don't really know what's going on behind the scenes, but I do show in this video tutorial some of the options you have for manipulating shapes to get the result you want. This is zip file is 12 MB, so it may take a while to download if you're on a slow connection.   more »

Several people have asked recently about the Paypal button at the upper right of the blog page and on my home page.   more »