Maya 4 Fundamentals book published

Trinity Animation Founder Authors Maya 4 Book Trinity Animation’s president Jim Lammers co-authored this beginner’s book on Alias|Wavefront’s Maya version 4 with Lee Gooding in 2002. Lammers noticed that with the new, free, learning edition from Alias|Wavefront (called PLE for Personal Learning Edition) there would be a lot of interest in using Maya 3D software with little helpful documentation […]

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Starship Troopers and Trinity Animation

The Kansas City Star’s Robert Butler featured Trinity Animation on the front page of the Kansas City Star Arts section for Trinity’s work on the just-released Sony/TriStar film Starship Troopers (wiki). Technical background: With no broadband, it was complicated to work on large files for a far away client. Film was scanned to 2048×1536 TIFF files […]

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3D Studio For Beginners Book Published

Trinity Animation Founder Authors 3D Studio Book Trinity Animation’s president Jim Lammers co-authored this beginner’s book on Autodesk’s 3D Studio version 4 with Michael Todd Peterson in 1995. Partly due to 3D Studio 4 being the last DOS-based version (and the new “3DS Max” requiring Windows NT, a 3D accelerated video card and considerably more resources) this […]

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