Essential Skills for 3D Modeling, Rendering, and Animation

This beginner’s guide presents the four essential aspects of creating 3D art: 3D space, modeling, rendering, and animation. It builds readers’ understanding of 3D graphics from the ground up, explaining the fundamental mechanics of the most important aspects of 3D art in a software-independent manner. The book also explains the mathematical functions of 3D art in non-mathematical terms, which allows readers to understand the nature of the underlying structure without needing to calculate the math.

Nicholas Bernhardt Zeman started his career in 3D graphics at the University of Kentucky, where during graduate school he began working in 3D Studio Max for the first time. After almost 12 years in character rigging for sports games, he decided to leave the employment of game developers and focus on the academic pursuit of interactive development as a professor at Northern Kentucky University. He began his own digital media technology company, RHZ Development LLC, where he continues to consult and produce functional games through gamification, mobile apps, and mobile games under the studio brand "Little Fish Games" and RHZ Development.