To Max Henry Acknowledgments We are thrilled to be updating Introducing 3ds Max for a third edition in honor of version 2011. Education is an all-important goal in life and should always be approached with eagerness and earnestness. We would like to show appreciation to the teachers who inspired us; you can always remember the teachers who touched your life, and to them we say thanks. We would also like to thank all of our students, who taught us a lot during the course of our many com- bined academic years. Equally, we would like to extend many thanks to the student artists who contributed to this book; many of them are our own students from The