I recently installed 3Ds Max 2010 (3D Studio Max) and I have started to watch some video tutorials. I found two good 3ds Max video tutorial series that I want to recommend.
This first series is made by Digital Arts Guild and is only 4 episodes long, but it shows you how the very basics of 3Ds Max works. Here you can find it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnHDQSz4Tg
The second series have I actually not finished watching. It starts like the first one with describing the very basics, but this tutorial is 22 episodes long! And therefore it got a lot more content than the first series and teaches you more advance stuff later on. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A12BF2F8CC489A50
Have fun in 3Ds Max!
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