I haven't read the 2nd edition, but I really hope he updated it to include Editable Poly workflows and a method of UVW-mapping that isn't totally prehistoric. If he didn't, then it's probably not worth getting. Personally I don't think he's all that... http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.asp Give…
Thanks for the replies everyone, I'll take all your suggestions onboard. I'll probably buy the book anyway as the first one was pretty good but i'll still be checking out all the tutorials mentioned.
Got the first one too - helped me a lot with tweaking and optimizing my models. Hey, that JoanOfArc tutorial is great too - take a look onto the original page too. He/she also made a higherRes version of Hunter -> http://mr2k.3dvf.net/archives/hunter/images/hunter02.jpg
I defeated this guy in the polycount cute doll contest, we both modeled Pikachu and I got more votes. I did not win the contest however. Like Mop said, you can find this stuff for free on the internet, when I first got into modeling I did some of Steed's free tutorials, I believe they were on penny arcade, the rotoscoping…
While I personally don't like Steeds techniques, I think it a bit... cheeky to be ragging on one of the forerunners of our craft. He was doing this before most of us knew what max was, and if I am not mistaken he has a doom title on his resume, as well as spending the last few years with microsoft in their pie in the sky…