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3ds Max: Digital Humans for Architectural Visualizations






Course details
By themselves, architectural visualization projects can seem stale. Adding people to the renderings adds personality and a sense of realism to the images. In this course, George Maestri shows viewers how to work with 2D and 3D assets to add humans to an architectural scene. George steps you through the process of creating and rigging a character in 3ds Max and points you to some online sources where you can choose models for your project. He shows you how to manipulate your model’s structure and texture to change looks. George goes into creating a CAT skeleton for your character and then skinning the character with a 3D mesh. Your character doesn’t have to remain stationary. George walks through how to animate characters using CATMotion or Biped, a tool within 3ds Max.


Introduction to digital humans
“- Hi, I'm George Maestri. Today, we're going to take a look at digital humans in 3ds Max. And this course will basically cover how to create basic human characters that you can use in visualization for architecture and other things. So we're going to start off with a little bit of background and some resources that you can turn to, and then we're going to use the CAT animation system to create some skeletons. We're going to skin a mesh to those skeletons, and then we will animate those characters. And then we will go ahead and follow up with the Biped plugin for 3ds Max, and again, we're going to do a quick overview of Biped and then create some characters and animate them. So if you want to create characters for your visualizations, let's go ahead and get started with the course.