Getting to know 3ds Max
• Familiarity with the graphical environment
• Work with files
• On-screen manipulation, scene movement, predefined views
• Various types of object selection
• Basic object transformations: Move, Rotate, and Scale commands
• Object Copy Commands: Clone, Align, Mirror
• Standard primitive objects. Exercise – Gradac Church from basic geometric objects

Modifiers
• Accurately move objects
• Creating advanced primitive models, grouping objects
• Work with basic modifiers and work on a sub-project level
• Exercise – Table with kettle

Lines
• Creating different types of lines, working with dots
• Working with text, options for rendering text, applying some modifiers to text
• Exercise – Chandelier
• Change curves, Editable Spline modifier, Bull operations
• Self-Exercise – Book

Polygonal modeling
• Basics of polygonal modeling
• Edit Poly modifier, sub-object level elements
• Selections within the Edit Poly modifier
• Commands for working with points, edges and polygons (Chamfer, Fillet, Extrude, Connect, Weld, Bevel, Inset commands)
• Exercise – Street lighting

Materials
• Introduction to the concept and role of materials, Material Editor tool, V-Ray basics
• Examples of basic materials and their properties
• Textures, examples of basic materials and their properties
• Maps and UVW Mapping modifier
• Exercise for creating interior materials (metal, glass, wood, wall, fabric, parquet)

Lighting
• The concept and types of lights
• Standard lights: omni, spot, direct
• Photometric lights: sphere, spot, ies
• V-Ray light: plane
• Intensity, color of light and shade, decrease of intensity
• Exercise – Interior lighting

Render
• Familiarity with the rendering panel
• Environment and Effects menu

Preparation for final work

Upon completion of the course students will receive the internationally recognized Autodesk Certificate of Completion, as well as the Crater VFX Training Center Certificate.

Saša Živković
Education Manager @ Crater Training Center

With thousands of educated trainees of all ages under his hat, Saša is an expert in IT-related education certified by Adobe and Autodesk. A consistently top-rated Autodesk instructor for Serbia, he was also licensed by the Institute for the Advancement of Education and Training to provide IT training to high school teachers. In collaboration with Computer Library Čačak, he has authored four AutoCAD instruction books.
A multi-talent, Saša also worked on various projects related to stage design, advertising, and business process monitoring software implementation. Formally educated as a Naval Architect at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, he has spent his life expanding his knowledge of computer graphics and its cross-industry applications. At Crater Training Center, he teaches AutoCAD 2D, AutoCAD 3D, 3ds Max, Teen 3ds Max, Architectural Visualization, Photoshop, Teen Photoshop, Digital Editing and Creation, Architecture Student Module 1 and Architecture Student Module 2.